by Tim Rees | Performance Enhancement, Talent Development
It’s one of the strongest stereotypes in world sport: England’s national football team is bad at penalty shootouts. Trotted out whenever England find themselves in the knockout phases of an international tournament, this time-worn stereotype always seems most...
by Tim Rees | Performance Enhancement, Research, Talent Development
Photo by Christopher Burns on Unsplash I gave my inaugural Professorial lecture in November 2017. Below are both a short prelude to the lecture, as well as the entire lecture, videoed from the audience.
by Tim Rees | Performance Enhancement, Research
Here’s a quick blog post detailing some points from a presentation I made to the 11th International Council for Coaching Excellence (ICCE) Global Coach Conference, hosted by Liverpool John Moores University, at the end of July 2017. I spoke to a paper of mine,...
by Tim Rees | Research, Talent Development
Creating high performance sportspeople is something like alchemy, and comes with the same baggage of half-thoughts, assumptions and quasi-quackery. But the research has moved on, and we can put to bed three powerful myths about building the ultimate athlete. The first...
by Tim Rees | Performance Enhancement
Setbacks can swiftly spiral into ever worsening performance. How do we break out of these spirals? One way is through an understanding of what psychologists call attributions: the reasons or causes we give for our setbacks and failures. We “attribute” our failures to,...
Tim is a leading authority on human performance and talent development and is at the heart of an emerging body of understanding, which encourages a new way of thinking about performance. His specialist interest in the new psychology of performance and leadership has led to numerous speaking engagements, collaborations, and consulting appointments worldwide, with his work into how individuals and organizations can reach optimum performance applied to all walks of life.