Today's workplace is an uncompromising arena that shares many characteristics with the world of the elite athlete - intense pressure, tough competition, small margins of error and high costs of failure. It's an arena that makes performance demands of key players which exceed anything that might be asked of the finest athletes. Work longer, work harder and deliver more in shorter time-scales and with fewer resources.

Three decades of research and twenty years' practical experience working with the elite means that we understand performance. If we expect people to perform like elite athletes then we need to teach them what elite athletes know about performance. K2's signature programme, the athlete at work™ - does exactly that.

All of our clients, in business and in sport, have stars. We recognise that there are teams of stars and star teams. Whilst the cost of running each of these is the same, the results are worlds apart. Using tools and techniques that have been proved to make a difference in the most testing of arenas, we help create, build and sustain teams with shared values, purpose and goals that can deliver in the toughest of conditions and deliver performance that has world class characteristics - it's intense, consistent and sustainable.

Performance is a term much used and little understood – yet it lies at the heart of delivering personal and professional goals. The demands to perform continue to grow at an extraordinary rate and if you and your people are to deliver, they need to understand how to perform, whatever the circumstances.

Based on our signature programme, the athlete at work rtm the one day K2 master class sessions explain all the basics – rooted in research and twenty years’ experience and delivered in a way that’s fun, interactive, easy to understand and practical to implement. The K2 masterclasses are a fantastic introduction to World Class performance.

• the athlete at work rtm masterclass I - performance and motivation
• the athlete at work rtm masterclass II - the high performance mindset
• the athlete at work rtm masterclass III - creating a physical energy strategy

They can be used individually or as a powerful series to give an introduction to the principles behind individual and collective World Class performance.

Most sales programmes, even the most well known and respected ones, have a fundamental flaw; they take little or no account of performance psychology and the way in which performers most effectively improve their skills and where necessary,change behaviour.

An athlete would not go to a training session for one or two days to be introduced to a technique or method and then expect to be world class when it comes to long term,high quality and consistent implementation. They would regularly test their skills as they seek to be the best at using them. They would see these tests as an opportunity to assess progress and to set themselves new goals. They also perform in a culture that means if you don’t keep those skills fresh, if you don’t seek to constantly improve them and to use them as competitive advantage, then the chances are you won’t be earning your place on the team.

Consistently delivering the goods, making the most of talent, rising to the occasion and constantly looking to improve. Those are just some of the qualities that we know result from being highly Performance Intelligent.

The best people we've observed and worked with in the arenas of sport and business have shared some valuable characteristics and we wanted to make the most of what we've learned to inform our efforts to help people fulfil their potential.

The result is Performance Intelligence ® - a new concept that is simply focused on performance.