Tony Wilson

Change is happening faster than we like. Disruption, distraction, restructure and re-engineering are becoming constant. People are finding it hard to stay focused on the things that really count, and managers are finding it hard to keep their people performing at their best.

Tony shows us the science behind how change affects our performance and the behaviours that we choose. He helps staff embrace change and focus on their high-performance behaviours, and he shows managers how to keep their people engaged during these periods. Most of all, Tony challenges the audience to embrace change and take responsibility for making it work.

- Understanding how change affects our brains
- The Behaviour Model, The Victim Cycle and the Change Cycle
- Why we act irrationally sometimes during change
- How to take control of your situation

What are the limits of human performance? We keep pushing the boundaries of so many things, what if we knew how to push the boundaries of our own mindset, productivity and motivation? Technology and research is showing us all sorts of conditions and tools to help us think better, do more, change our behaviours and alter our mindset. Performance science is showing us how to recreate those moments when we are in our peak performance state, so that we can operate at that level more often.

In this talk, Tony Wilson takes some of these concepts to the extreme, hacking our physiology to improve our brain function, flow state, attention and self-control and showing us what Silicone Valley geniuses, Navy Seals and Elite Athletes are doing to get that extra five percent. He then peels back the layers to show us how we can apply this in a more simple way every single day at work and in life.

- Strategies for staying focussed and on-task
- Boosting brain power
- Hacking your body clock
- Faster learning and better problem solving

In today’s workplace, there is more time pressure than ever, and greater expectations on us to perform at our best; underperformance, burnout, presenteeism and stress-related illness are sadly becoming a familiar part of our language.

We all know that stress affects our health, but in this keynote, Tony shows us how it kills our performance as well, stopping us from doing our best thinking, robbing us of energy and making it harder to control our emotions and behaviour.

Take a journey around the body and brain and see what performance science can tell us about stress. Learn quick and simple re-charge techniques, strategies for emotional control and how effective sleeping and eating can help alleviate this potentially debilitating problem.

- Understanding the good aspects of stress as well as the bad
- Strategies for performance under high pressure situations
- Strategies for preventing chronic stress so you can perform at your best more often and for longer
- Understanding how even small amounts of stress over the long term affects performance

How do we lead our people to perform at their best in the 21st Century? Most leadership lessons are observational, but in this keynote Tony focuses on the science behind why our people do and don’t perform at their peak and how leaders unknowingly affect this equation.

Performance Science shows us that there are four universal human factors that drive performance, behaviour and emotional conflict. When we use these Performance Triggers, the chemicals that keep us focused and motivated increase, and activity shifts to the most effective brain regions. This helps keep people focused, proactive and able to choose the most effective behaviours.

The audience will take away four key things that undeniably boost performance in today’s workplace and will better understand what drives behaviour and ultimately the performance of their people.

- An understanding of what triggers high performance
- A clear realisation of how leaders impact people’s ability to perform at their best
- How to use the concepts of Autonomy, Belonging, Consistency and Status to influence performance
- The high performance environment

Right now is the most challenging time to be managing people. We expect more from our people, and in turn, they expect more from their leaders.

Keeping people productive, motivated and living up to their potential is more important than ever. In this talk, Tony shows leaders how to build the environment for their people to thrive, in a world where performance under pressure is what really counts and where virtual offices are the norm.

Hybrid working is a whole new skill. And it is easy to find ourselves ineffective when moving from the home work space to the office and back again on a regular basis. In this workshop, we explore the ways we can make hybrid working work better for us by taking control of your work and effectiveness in different environments, structuring your week to stay in the zone when switching between home and the office, and planning how to best collaborate with your team. We learn how being effective trumps being efficient and talk about the three types of work - creative, tactical and habitual - and how to optimise for each.

OBJECTIVES - PEAK PERFORMANCE

- Performance basics - understanding the Performance Zone, the Chill Zone and the Choking Zone
- Improve self-management, time-management and energy-management
- Build work life balance strategies
- Help participants optimise their dayStrategies for staying motivated and resilient
- Focussing on the things that make us truly valuable and adapting to each workspace
- Recharge in order to do our best work and stay 'in the zone’
- Taking control of your work and effectiveness in different environments
- Working collaboratively between the virtual and physical office
- Structuring your week to stay in the zone when switching between home and office

Sales can be hard. Riding the roller coaster of wins, setbacks, and everything in between. But what if we knew a little more about ourselves and the science of high performance? What if we could change some simple things to stay motivated, on task and focused on our key behaviours, while managing our emotions so that we’re always in the zone? In this keynote, Tony Wilson takes the science of high performance, and shows us how to use it to perform at our best in the 21st Century sales environment. You will get an understanding the high-performance zones, realise that we are hardwired NOT to perform at our best in today’s workplace and what we need to do about it. You will also develop strategies for beating procrastination and other unproductive, low motivation behaviours, while being able to manage emotions and stress so you can perform at your best more often and for longer.

- Understanding the performance zones
- How we are hardwired NOT to perform at our best in today’s workplace and what we need to do about it
- Strategies for beating procrastination and other unproductive, low-motivation behaviours
- Strategies for managing emotions and stress so we can perform at our best more often and for longer

In the new economy, there is a new definition of performance. We need to consistently do our best thinking and perform at our best mentally. We can't keep doing the same things we did last year and expect to be more successful. But how do we continually operate at full intensity without burning out? This session shows how we are actually wired NOT to do our best work in today's environment and how our current way of working is at odds with what the science tells us would be most effective.

Through some entertaining thought experiments and fascinating presentation of performance science, participants will leave with strategies to get into the Performance Zone more often and stay there for longer - helping them do their best thinking and perform at their full potential every hour of every day

- Understanding the performance zones
- How we are hardwired NOT to perform at our best in today’s workplace and what we need to do about it
- Strategies for beating procrastination and other unproductive, low-motivation behaviours
- Strategies for managing emotions and stress so we can perform at our best more often and for longer

We have to be "on" more than ever before. How do you navigate the challenges of work, when your office is all around you?

In this talk, Tony uses science of high performance to show you how being 'always out' affects your motivation and how being 'always on' affects your ability to work at your best. You'll take away some key strategies for staying motivated, staying in the zone, and beating burnout

Work life balance is not a right. It’s not a compromise and it’s not a sign of mediocrity. Work-life balance is essential to performing at our best in and out of the office. Productivity studies in Australia show that the most productive people aren’t the ones who are first in the office and leave late at night. People with work-life-balance are up to 2.5 times more productive than those without.

In this presentation, you’ll find out why. And when work-life-balance is done right, you not only get improved relationships, but you get better at your job.

Tony Wilson shows us why work-life-balance is so important, but so elusive to the average high performing worker. He will show you how we are hardwired to pay attention to work over just about anything else, and?what we can do to start to switch this balance. From this workshop, your people will develop strategies to work with more productivity and focus, and take those same performance skills and apply them to their life outside the office as well.

- Understanding why work gets our attention
- Structuring your day to be most effective
- Identifying your MIT’s (Most Important Things)
- Identifying Key Behaviours to make you more productive
- Setting yourself up for balance