Moving Performance Blog
New year, new website, even better performance
You might have noticed that we’ve got a new look here at Moving Performance, a refresh for the new year. While we’d like to be modest, we want to share our successes with you, and also to make it easier to show you the growing range of ways we’re engaging with organisations like yours. So,…
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The Unsung Players
Every orchestra has a conductor. A chamber orchestra might have around 50 musicians. In a full-size symphony orchestra, like the Royal Philharmonic, there’s around 80 which can grow to over hundred for certain pieces of music. But beyond the players we see on-stage, there will be hundreds more working behind-the-scenes, making sure every concert runs…
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Emotional intelligence from schoolroom to boardroom
One of the biggest challenges facing businesses today isn’t a lack of rational thinking in the boardroom, but rather, how to lead with emotional awareness. Even in the rational world of business and commerce, EQ is as valuable as IQ. Rational thought took centre stage last week when it was reported that British children are…
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Moving Performance scores applause in the Telegraph
Our flagship leadership programme Know the Score® received a stellar review in today’s Daily Telegraph. The newspaper’s opera critic and classical music reporter Rupert Christiansen joined 30 leaders from different sectors and industries for Know the Score® at the Royal Albert Hall last week. As part of a day-long seminar the participants sat amongst the…
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The music of an organisation
All the best teams have a rhythm; a flow that is in all of them which makes whatever they do really good. Sports people call this “the zone”. You know when you hit the zone – everything falls into place – the technical aspects of what you do seem easier, the goal is achievable, working…
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A busy week at Learning Technologies 2012
My colleague Jamie Treadwell and I had a great week last week speaking at the Learning Technologies conference in London. We shared why it is important to recognise the emotional in learning interventions, and how to use metaphor to spark creativity in learning and change programmes. Of course we had to do this practically and…
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Music can be a powerful training tool
Check this article out in the Training Journal.
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3 Characteristics of Star Performers
Have you ever considered that your star performers in your business (e.g. your top sales people, your rain-makers, traders, top-talent, etc) are a bit like the concerto soloist in an orchestra? I had the privilege of accompanying the exceptional violinist, Giovanni Guzzo, in a performance of Sibelius’s Violin Concerto at St John’s, Smith Square, London recently.…
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Staying true to your values
At last night’s Brit Awards, the British band Mumford and Sons pick up the big prize of the night: Mastercard’s Album of the Year for their debut album Sigh No More. The show was staged at London’s O2 Arena, with about 25,000 people watching live and 4 million on TV. It started by an extravagant…
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