What TPC Does

Here at Top Performance Consulting Ltd. we pride ourselves on using refreshing straight talk – see our vision if you don’t believe us – and where would we be if that vision didn’t stretch all the way down to the terms and phrases we use on a daily basis.

We have a variety of key terms used throughout this site and which are fundamental to the articles and books written by our founder Graham Jones. These terms sum up the ethos of Top Performance Consulting and the messages that we aim to impart to the businesses who sign up for our services.

For those of you who are new to the world of business development and performance coaching we trust that our straightforward and simple glossary below, will help you better understand our approach.

Mental Toughness

This can be summed up as the ability, when under pressure, to stay in control under stress, strengthen self-belief, channel motivation to work for you and direct focus to the things that really matter. Mental toughness enables real leaders to thrive on pressure. More than ability, experience and education, in today’s fast moving, highly competitive …

Real and Safe Leadership

Top Performance believes that you can separate leaders, in any organization, into two main categories ‘Safe’ and ‘Real’. ‘Safe’ leaders are driven mainly by their need for rewards, power and status. They are unwilling to put themselves on the line because of the threat of losing their position if they get it wrong. ‘Real’ leaders …

Thrive on Pressure

We are all faced with different types of pressure when trying to deliver top performance but we can all decide whether to ‘cope with’ or ‘thrive on’ this pressure. Coping with pressure means that you get by but the constant struggle to cope will probably be at some expense to your energy and focus. Thriving …

Top Performance Coaching

The close links between sport and business excellence has been widely written about and one of the most striking similarities has to be that of coaching people to higher levels of performance. When talking about business coaching, there is the assumption that one-size-fits-all, which fails to examine what is required for coaching high-achievers compared to …

Top Performance Environments

The environment an organisation creates, is just as important as the people who work within it. You may have great people in your organisation, but if the environment isn’t right for them, you will either lose them or their performance will suffer. There are four components of high-performance environments – strategic focus, leadership, performance enablers …

Top Performance Teams

High-performance organisations are in a constant state of formal or informal change. They can never stand still as they seek to maintain and extend their competitive advantage. Leaders are at the core of this environment and they need to ensure that the right people, with a variety of talents and skills appropriate to the different …