What Will You Do – Peak Performance?
What will you do after you have reached your “peak performance” and can’t do more without creating great stress for yourself and maybe those around you? Do you think it is right that we should expect, indeed even compel each other to become better, faster, more clever, more competent on a perpetual basis as a requirement to justify pay increases or greater positions of leadership, responsibility and extra remuneration?
These questions are being asked on a regular basis in many businesses and companies across the country. They are often used as the reason and means for firing unwanted personnel, or workers who have a use-by-date on their jobs, careers and skills, not forgetting of course the age factor.
Peak performance is a myth perpetuated by business owners, CEO’s, managers and team-leaders alike, who, for the most part excuse themselves from the very measure they impose on their workers.
The forgotten factor – peak performance is purely relative to an extreme state, or unparalleled temporary pressure, or for an abnormal passing situation. Nothing and no one can run continuously at peak performance without eventually causing catastrophe. And if you could do it continuously without breakdown, it would soon be called normal and thus no longer peak performance.
Executive coaching takes you beyond the scope of peak performance to peak vigilance in profuture thinking, so that you always remain proactive rather than reactive. Peak performance is a condition caused and required by reaction to a crisis and is not something for anyone to boast about.