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Thank you for the opportunity to deliver the Showcase at PSA Yorkshire last Saturday. It was great to hear your insightful and positive feedback, as well as listen to the variety of talented speakers at the event.
In summary, the aim of the Clear Links Model Theory, is to build sustained self-belief to enable us to deliver consciously controlled, confident future performances. This is achieved through self-awareness and controlling our perceptions, our beneficial memories and creating personal narratives in areas of strength. The final component of this virtuous circle, is to align our beliefs to the level of our aspiration. The repetition of similar experiences become habitual and these can be positively or negatively oriented, defining us as people - we become the person of our habits. We become the performer who is a pessimist or optimist; the performer who is anxious or relaxed and confident; the performer who is the victim of events or who is in control; the performer who reacts to adversity with anger or with strategy. My hope is that all of us can use this model to build our self-belief as speakers, players and business people. Well done to Steve Judge and his colleagues for a very insightful, entertaining and humorous event.
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How to create a cycle of confident future performances, under pressure, through self- awareness? Can you control your perception of events and the way your memories represent your earlier experiences? This lay the foundation of our fixed beliefs about ourselves and what we think others believe about us (our narratives). These stories are crucial in shaping our self-belief, beliefs in general and ultimately if we are able to perform at the level we aspire to, especially under pressure. Thank you to Frances Houghton MBE, Big Ian Donaghy and David Sammel for some wonderful and inspiring insights at ‘Unlock Your Personal Best’ on Friday. Also thanks to the thirty delegates who played their part with some intriguing questions. We hope to arrange another event in the not so distant future.  Unlock Your Personal Best Tickets now available for "Unlock Your Personal Best" talk and networking event, with motivational speakers who will enhance personal and team performance, through exploration of the tools elite performers harness to succeed.
Listen to 6x ATP Tour, Inc. Champion, Coach and Speaker Marius Barnard, 5x Olympian and 4x World Champion Frances Houghton MBE, motivational Keynote Speaker, Author and Performer Big Ian Donaghy as well as Team Bath’s Head Coach and bestselling Locker Room Power Author, David Sammel. The speakers will explore themes such as performance under pressure, resilience, effective teamwork, leadership, changing perspectives and goal setting. Providing individuals, teams and businesses with transferable skills across a range of expertise. When: Fri 17th Jan, 9:00am-12:30pm Where: Hilton Hotel, York For more info and to purchase tickets follow: https://lnkd.in/g4PCTsH £10 from every ticket purchase will be donated to OSCAR’s Paediatric Brain Tumour Charity. Unlock Your Personal Best will enhance personal and team performance, exploring the tools elite performers harness to achieve their best. About this Event Schedule: 9:30 am Marius Barnard 10:00 am Big Ian Donaghy 10:45 am Fran Houghton MBE 11:30 am David Sammel Breakfast coffee and tea will be served on arrival, with a fully stocked buffet (vegan options available) through until 12 pm. Between 12 -1pm there will be opportunity to network with guests and speakers. £10 from every ticket purchase will be donated to OSCAR'S Paediatric Brain Tumour Charity. Marius Barnard: What Professional sport can teach us about business and life Marius will share his insights of how he learned to deal with the pressure of match points on the big stage to win 6 ATP Tour titles and beat Rodger Federer, Goran Ivanisivic and 5 other world no. 1 players. He teaches businesses the secrets to resilience, visualising and performing under pressure. Marius will focus on the process, changing narratives, controlling perceptions and building self-belief. Drawing upon the experiences he encountered during his 13 years on the ATP Tour and Grand Slams. This will conclude with a 10 min Q&A session.
Ian Donaghy: It's a Team Game A unique, entertaining and dynamic Keynote Speaker and Conference Host with a heartfelt message that will emotionally capture his audience. Ian is an author of 2 books and winner of "Care Trainer of the Year" at the British Care Awards. Ian has been a tutor, head of maths, trainer and fundraiser since he qualified in education at Leeds Beckett. Ian organised, presented and promoted "A Night to Remember" at York Theatre Royal, Grand Opera House and the Barbican in aid of St Leonard’s Hospice.
Frances Houghton MBE: "Learnings from 5 Olympic Games" People, Pressure & Performance Frances Houghton, a 4x World Champion, 3x Olympic Silver Medallist and 2x Record Holder will share her insights and experience of 21 years at the forefront of British rowing. Frances discusses her changing perspective on teamwork and leadership throughout the adversities of elite performance. Performance takes both passion and process, but ultimately, it's "all about people".
David Sammel: Locker Room Power David Sammel, author and creator of Locker Room Power, Head Coach at Team Bath, ATP Tour coach and coach of 13 Davis Cup players. His 30 years of experience will help you change your perspectives with upside down thinking, effective and friendly confrontation, as well as goals from the heart. David is a life skills consultant with clients and teams from all over the world. His coaching experience specialises in getting to the core of what is needed to find inspirational and pragmatic solutions to problems.
 These days you will find Marius Barnard working as a tennis coach as well as operating as a motivational speaker. During his career as a professional player, he claimed some top scalps on the ATP tour. “In doubles, I beat six number one players: Roger Federer, Andy Roddick, Marat Safin, Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Marcelo Ríos, Juan Carlos Ferrero,” said South African born Marius, who now lives in York with his family.
“When I beat Roger he was ranked 35 in singles. It was June 2000 and a year later he went on to beat Sampras at Wimbledon. He moved into the top ten within two years of our first meeting.” Read The Full Article Here Download As the world's favourite tennis tournament starts on Monday, Maxine Gordon meets the York tennis coach who played at Wimbledon – and beat Federer on the doubles court PLAYING on Centre Court at Wimbledon would be a dream come true for most tennis players. But the first time Marius Barnard stepped out on to the hallowed grass of the game's most famous court in the summer of 1992 there was a snag – his wedding was booked for the second Friday of Wimbledon fortnight, meaning that if he hit a winning streak there would be a big decision to make. Read The Full Article Here Thank you to Audrie Woodhouse for inviting me as a guest speaker to present at the Honestly Speaking, Speak Up to Scale Up 2019 training event this Friday. It was fascinating to hear how many similar psychological factors can be applied in sport, business and the art of public speaking. A further thanks to David Sammel for joining and signing copies as well as sharing insights from his new edition of Locker Room Power. A thank you to Russell Turner and Chloe Owens who gave me the opportunity to share my Locker Room Power presentation at the newly established hashtag#YorkshireRowsEventHub at Garbutt + Elliott. I can recommend this business hub for its HD screen, impactful acoustics and interactive design, which enabled ease of communication and full audience engagement. The talk explored changing perceptions on awareness, narratives, pressure in the workplace and managing fear. In moving closer to our personal best we focused on blending strengths with our strategy. I look forward to hearing about the behavioural changes, actioned by the attendees, at my next visit.  A thank you to Louise Osborne and Robert Onyett for assisting in the planning and organising of the Locker Room Power ‘Building your self- belief and Resilience’ presentation with Harrowells Limited. The interactive audience had several engaging questions relating to the outcomes of our ‘Self-belief & Resilience’ questionnaire. These insights provided a great platform for exploring how our awareness and perceptions influence our behaviour and performance, especially when under pressure. Then we conquered fear with courage, perspective and excitement. Most importantly, everybody agreed that we should anchor our good performances more regularly and not fixate on our mistakes. We must learn from our poor performances, but move on swiftly. The final call to action was to utilise our strengths in order to build our self-belief and confidence. Thank you to Karen and John for engaging so well as participants in the “trash bin challenge”. WHO WILL IT BE? NADAL OR DJOKOVIC TO LIFT THE FRENCH OPEN TROPHY? Read my predictions here: Nadal vs Djokovic  |
