Insights on performance, training, and human factors

This month I’ve had quite a focus on adapting to change. I’ve introduced my ADAPT model , looked into why we as humans are resistant to change and how change helps athletes to improve their performance . Now I’m taking my own advice and pausing to see how I’m making changes to continue growing as a coach and athlete. In the past, I’ve worked with a triathlon coach who got me over that initial hurdle of juggling three sports in one event, and we worked well together over this

In high-stakes environments - like aviation, emergency response, sport, and leadership - we talk a lot about situational awareness. But...

I joined the RAF back in 2016, after the findings of Haddon-Cave’s Nimrod review . The changes to culture were already well and truly...

In today’s fast-paced world, we send more messages - but understand less. Whether it’s a WhatsApp from a coach, a safety note in...

In aviation, sport, and leadership, few things erode trust faster than blame. In high-performance environments, where human error is...

As human beings, we are all fallible. Mistakes occur, despite knowing every Human Factor at play and identifying the potential for errors...

How many times do we see it in our day-to-day lives? Whether its an email to our boss that they took the wrong way, or a text to a family...

While flying recently, I was handling the aircraft on an instrument approach in for a touch and go. I was wearing the oxygen mask, as we...

Communication always comes with its challenges, but there are ways we can overcome these and avoid ambiguity.

Investigating accidents and incidents serves one sole purpose; to identify the causes and prevent recurrence. Over time, this data can be...

In most walks of life, people find themselves in high pressure situations. This often builds over time, with increasing workload, or...

I’m not always making errors; despite whatever picture these articles may appear to paint. But I am open about them, as I genuinely...

Sitting in a Grob 115A cockpit, at the hold on an empty airfield I ran through the pre-take-off checklist. It was my first time taking a passenger flying, after completing RAF flying training and finishing off the final elements of my civilian licence. I was eager to get airborne, and although there was no pressure to get going, I did feel the pressure of the responsibility of someone else’s life who didn’t have a clue how the aircraft worked. I’d only ever flown next to an i