by Ollie Phillips | 2 Dec, 2024 | News & Blog
Why High Performance in People is Key In today’s fast-paced business world, success goes beyond meeting targets—it’s about fostering high performance in people. When individuals and teams consistently perform at their best, they drive innovation, improve...
by Ollie Phillips | 4 Nov, 2024 | News & Blog
Are you being the best leader you can be? Being a leader is not an easy task, but do it right, and you will make both your team and business thrive. As leaders, we are constantly dealing with people, and since every person in our team is different, it makes sense that...
by Ollie Phillips | 14 Oct, 2024 | News & Blog
Starting a business is a journey full of excitement and ambition but sometimes, the road to opening day is bumpier than expected. Generally speaking, we need to focus on our well-being since that alone can affect performance. However, this can be hard when there’s one...
by Ollie Phillips | 7 Oct, 2024 | News & Blog
At Optimist Performance, we’re proud of the impact our coaches—whom we fondly call Eternal Optimists—have made in the lives of individuals, teams, and organisations. Through personalised 1-on-1 coaching, they’ve helped clients navigate challenges, develop...
by Ollie Phillips | 9 Sep, 2024 | News & Blog
“The ideas that coaching is a spend rather than an investment, or a nice to have, not a need to have, are two of the biggest misconceptions about executive coaching.” – Lara Milward. This month, we talked to Lara Milward, one of our Eternal Optimists, about...
by Ollie Phillips | 5 Aug, 2024 | News & Blog
Did you know that 13.7 million working days are lost each year in the UK because of work-related stress, anxiety, and depression, costing £28.3 billion a year? As leaders, we are not only dealing with numbers or performance, but we are also dealing with the human...