The Performance Zone

The learning zone is when our goal is to improve. Then we do activities designed for improvement, concentrating on what we haven't mastered yet, which means we have to expect to make mistakes, knowing that we will learn from them.

That is very different f...

When we intentionally take time to reflect, we immediately chart a course for tomorrow where we continue what is successful and course-correct where necessary. 

Reflective thinking is our daily coaching session which can fast track us towards where we want to go and what we want to accom...

We spend so much time in the performance zone because most of the time our environments often are, unnecessarily, high stakes. But there are still things we can do about it:

• We can create low-stakes islands in an otherwise high-stakes sea.
• W...