Certain performance skills, routines, and practices can help you in your day-to-day and with achieving your goals.
What is the relationship between personal performance and success?
Addressing personal performance can help you be more successful and it may boost your well-being!
Modern adults are often busy and find themselves responding to competing demands. Yet, certain skills, routines, and personalized structures may help address ebbs & flows, a person’s of range commitments, and how someone feels as they navigate their personal and professional lives.
A personal performance game plan could be your golden ticket.
Personal performance encompasses how you show up in the world, get things done, and accomplish what you ultimately want in life!
You can think of peak performance as simple things to manage personal time, resources, and energy.
Addressing personal performance can help with the following:
- resilience
- engaging with other people
- feeling well
- establishing systems that work
- presence
Each of these factors plays a role in your success in life and sense of well-being.
Although personal performance may sound cliché, it includes personalized planning around strengths-alignment, relationships & boundaries, communication style, capacities & demands, and responding to life’s stressors.
Addressing personal performance can help people optimize the delicate balance and various integrations between work, family, and personal interests in life. Doing so can also help put the WHO into the equation and consider your individualized range of commitments and goals.
Developing personal performance also moves beyond simply knowing your strengths and values to understanding more about how you are (or work) and, ultimately, cultivating the best version of yourself.
The idea of personal performance originated from sports science, including the psychological and mindset training high-performing athletes adopted. Researchers eventually began adapting human performance concepts to apply to adults in general. As study findings began to emerge and validate the concepts, applications emerged across various settings, such as workplace programs, professional development curricula, and, of course, professional coaching.
The empirical case for performance-based coaching is compelling. It loops in people’s aspirations, quality of life, and unique motivational structure. This coaching style will likely incorporate reflective exercises, clarity around vision & ultimate desires in life, and a grounded assessment of what may be getting in the way. Performance-based coaches support individuals to identify personalized routines and structure for, ultimately, human potential.
Although it may be likely to find performance coaching in workplace settings (as a way to boost organizational measures like productivity and employee engagement), it is an emerging area where professional coaches work with people on developing performance skills across their whole lives and factor in facets like work-life-family integration and personal well-being.
You might think of Performance Skills as Power Skills.
Power skills are a modern take on “soft skills.” These skills may include primary areas, such as communications, relationship building, leadership, vision, and agility.
Developing power skills with intentionality could help you with relatability, marketability, and overall success in achieving your goals. Doing so may also help you overcome potential challenges that could arise in ever-evolving landscapes.
Furthermore, behaviors, habits, rituals & routines related to personal performance may enhance your overall presence in life and sense of well-being.
Well-crafted power skills can help you relate better to people and excel at things you commit to. It may also make you more desirable and competitive for roles you wish to achieve.
Leading resources on the evolving economic landscape, such as Forbes, LinkedIn, and SHRM (Society for Human Resources Management), have all published recent material on the skills people will need as we embark on future decades. One salient message is an anticipated increase in demand for leadership, management, and effective communication skills.
Leadership skills are evolving as well. People are now expected to work more collaboratively across interdisciplinary settings to address and solve multi-faceted, complex problems. The need to work well with others, focus & think clearly, tap into creativity, and remain emotionally and socially well-regulated are all expected to be more relevant than ever. Performance skills fit hand-and-hand with these expectations.
Developing yourself with personal performance and well-being in mind may be the secret sauce for thriving in modern social and professional environments.
Ultimately, it is a strategic way for busy, driven adults to keep their well-being and values aligned AND be successful in their life, profession or business, and range of commitments.
What performance skills should you hone for a greater likelihood of success?
Peak Performance Coaching can help you increase the probability of attaining goals and capacity for sustained growth. Leveraging performance-based coaching and personal development approaches can be a distinct way to address relevant skills development in life (i.e. developing your Power Skills)!
Primary areas to help you address in personal performance include:
- Your definition of purpose
- Aspirations & sources of inspiration
- Motivational mantras
- How you define success
- Ways you wish to grow (areas of growth)
- Ideas & statements that help you define your vision
- Personality and character descriptors
- Learning style & preferences
- Things holding you back
- Tactics that help you focus and avoid negative distractions
- Identification of specific demands, capacities, & resources
- Factors that help you relax or activate when needed
Spending time reflecting upon these areas of your life helps cultivate self-awareness and supports you to get clearer on your next steps.
Perhaps new goals or growth areas will evolve after reviewing the factors contributing to personal performance. You may also find areas that you were previously addressing that could be adapted or shifted to better fit your performance style. It may be freeing to identify things to let go of as well.
Finally, finding the areas that are working well and moments to celebrate will also be highly relevant. Doing so will help you build the “muscle” (so to speak) of a performance mindset and set up a unique, personalized game plan for success.
Your personal performance game plan would include specific routines, systems, and structures most applicable to you.
So, where to start with a performance mindset and game plan???
A Personal Performance Profile is a unique tool used in the coaching industry. It is a relevant self-development approach that can help you in both personal and professional areas. It encompasses factors related to self-awareness, your personalized stress management plan, and alignment between your unique skill set and demands. This tool can also support setting goals and structures that cultivate personal power skills.
Taking time to self-assess and set up a unique personal performance plan, including goals, routines, and supportive structures specific to your circumstances is the first step to addressing and improving personal performance. Furthermore, performance skills can be applied across personal and professional areas.
We are thrilled to include this distinct tool as a core offering to coaching programs. Also, in the last year, we have been able to roll out small group workshops centered around personal performance and well-being.
Would you like to learn more about cultivating optimal personal performance?
Aligning with one’s sense of purpose & vision, personal performance style, and personal well-being are foundational to our coaching programs. Ashley is a trained & certified coach in positive psychology-based coaching, which helps her to address these critical factors for your personal and professional priorities.
Not sure where to start? A 6-session bundle is a great place to start. It provides just enough coaching to dig in deeply and accomplish some relevant outcomes (check out our recent testimonials to learn more). The option to extend is always available.
PLUS… in case you missed our recent updates, we have revamped our coaching packages to be more flexible & adaptable to your personal needs and schedule while keeping a strong root in values-based coaching.
There is more information about our core 1-to-1 coaching packages on the Work With Me page. As always, we welcome a complimentary introduction session to experience a small dose of coaching, get to know each other, and explore potential options best suited for you.
Also, we have had the amazing opportunity to roll out small group workshops on foundational areas of well-being-focused coaching, such as Power Skills and Personal Performance for Success. We welcome you to e-mail us to learn more about your workshops; [email protected].