THE CHALLENGE
Performance problems are rarely just people problems.
When performance drops, it is easy to look at the individual.
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Do they need to be more motivated? More resilient? More confident? Better at managing pressure?
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Sometimes.
But how people perform is also shaped by the environment around them.
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Leadership. Communication. Expectations. Relationships. Culture. Systems. Pressure. Opportunities to learn.
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Understanding that wider environment allows us to ask a better question:
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Rather than simply asking how people can perform better, what conditions are we creating for them to perform within?
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Seabury Performance helps organisations understand those conditions and identify where meaningful change can be made.
AREAS WE SUPPORT
The human side of performance.
Leadership
Help leaders understand how their behaviours shape the people and environments around them.
Pressure
Understand how people experience pressure and create environments that prepare them to perform effectively within it.
Communication
Improve how people listen, communicate, provide feedback and navigate difficult conversations.
Decision Making
Support clearer thinking and effective decision making, particularly when complexity and pressure increase.
Team Effectiveness
Explore the relationships, behaviours and conditions that allow teams to work effectively together.
Psychological Safety
Create environments in which people can contribute, question, challenge, learn and communicate openly.
Learning
Build environments where reflection, feedback and development become part of everyday performance.
Change
Understand the human experience of uncertainty and help people navigate periods of transition and organisational change.
Culture
Explore the behaviours, expectations and systems that shape how performance happens every day.
HOW WE HELP
Different challenges require different levels of support.
No single intervention works for every organisation.
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We start by understanding your environment, the challenge you are trying to solve and what meaningful improvement can look like. From there, we can work together in several ways.
WORKSHOPS
Focused learning around a specific performance challenge.
Evidence-informed sessions combining psychological science, discussion and practical application.​
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Topics can include performance under pressure, leadership, communication, psychological safety, decision making and team performance.
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES
Create development that continues beyond the room.
Performance rarely changes because of a single workshop.
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Our development programmes combine multiple learning experiences over time to help leaders, teams and organisations develop capability and translate ideas into everyday behaviour.​
Consultancy
Support built around the challenge, not a predetermined solution.
For more complex challenges, we work alongside organisations to understand problems, design solutions and support implementation.
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Rather than applying a predetermined programme, consultancy begins with the context and develops from what we discover.
This might involve leadership, team development, performance culture, programme design, organisational change or the integration of psychological principles into existing systems.
PERFORMANCE PARTNERSHIPS
Ongoing support for organisations committed to their performance environment.
For organisations seeking longer-term support, Seabury Performance can become an ongoing performance partner.
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Partnerships allow us to understand the organisation over time, support leaders and teams, deliver development initiatives and continually evaluate what is changing.
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Rather than a series of isolated interventions, the aim is to help create sustainable improvement across the wider performance environment.
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LEADERSHIP SUPPORT
Supporting the people who shape the performance environment.
Leaders have a significant influence on how people experience work, respond to pressure and perform within an organisation.
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We provide individual and small-group support to help leaders reflect on their impact, navigate performance challenges and develop the behaviours that create effective environments around them.
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Rather than prescribing a single model of leadership, support is shaped around the individual, their role and the environment they are responsible for leading.
OUR APPROACH
Evidence matters. Context matters more.
There is rarely one universal solution to a performance problem. Our approach combines psychological science with an understanding of the environment in which performance actually happens.
EVIDENCE-LED
Our thinking is informed by psychological science, research and established principles of human performance.
CONTEXT-SPECIFIC
We seek to understand your people, environment and challenges before recommending solutions.
PRACTICAL
Psychology can influence what people actually think, do and experience.
COLLABORATIVE
We work alongside the people within your organisation, combining our expertise with their understanding of the environment.
HOW WE WORK
From understanding to impact.
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Identify
Understand the people, environment, systems and challenges surrounding performance.
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DEVELOP
Combine what we discover with evidence and psychological science to design an appropriate approach.
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EMBED
Work alongside leaders and teams to translate ideas into everyday behaviour and practice.
04 EVALUATE
Understand what is changing, learn from what isn’t and determine what can happen next.
WHY SEABURY PERFORMANCE
Psychology with the environment in mind.
Seabury Performance brings together psychological principles and scientific research with our experience of demanding performance environments.
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Our background in high-performance sport has provided first-hand experience of people operating under pressure, developing expertise, working within teams and responding to success, failure and uncertainty.
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However, we don’t believe organisations should simply copy elite sport.
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Instead, we use our understanding of human performance alongside the context, people and challenges of your organisation to determine what is actually useful.
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The objective is not to make your workplace more like a sports team.
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It is to make your performance environment work better for the people within it.
What does better performance look like in your organisation?
Every organisation is different.
Tell us what you’re trying to improve and we’ll start by understanding the environment around it.