Performance Thoughts
Talks and team coaching.Develop the people who already deliver.
Sessions for teams and leadership groups on how performance is built, drawn from the research and from years in elite sport.
Lee Drew · MSc High-Performance Coaching · former England junior national coach, PSA Tour commentator and Head of World Squash Officiating
The problem
Two patterns bring organisations to this page.
High performers are rewarded with load, not development
The reward for being the person who can be counted on is another project, the difficult client, the cover nobody else can give. It looks like recognition. Over time it is the opposite: the capable people are being spent, not developed, and they are the ones an organisation can least afford to lose. Developing your best people builds capacity for what is ahead. Relying on them only uses up the capacity they already have.
The part of performance AI does not replace
As routine work is automated, what remains is the part that was always hardest to teach: judgement, standards, and the consistency to apply them when it is inconvenient. None of it can be downloaded. It is built, in individuals and in teams, within conditions you can name and develop.
What Lee delivers
Talks, team coaching, or the two together.
Talks
A single session for a leadership group, a team or a company day. Lee sets out how performance is built and what that means for the way you develop your most capable people.
Team coaching
A series of sessions with one team. You work through the conditions as they apply to your people: where the load sits now, and what each person is being developed towards.
Both together
A talk to set the ideas out across the wider group, then coaching with the team that will put them into practice.
The method
Shaped around your team
Every session is built around the team in the room — what they are carrying, where the pressure sits, and what the organisation needs from them next. The method underneath is published on this site as The System: five conditions and seven principles for how performance is built. Lee applies it to your situation. Nothing is delivered as a set programme. The same method has run from England junior national squads to executive coaching at Oracle.
Enquiries
Enquire about a talk or team coaching
Send a few lines about your team and what prompted the enquiry. The reply comes from Lee.
Prefer email? The contact page reaches the same desk.
More about Lee and the brand is on the About page. The full method is at The System →