practices to nurture peak performance in your organisation
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HOW TO ACHIEVE PEAK PERFORMANCE

By Matthew Oye Arikanki

Welcome to the age of limitless possibility where reality turns out excately what you make it. welcome to the age of massive information where you - you the individual, you the business, you the organisation, you the government can imagined, write out your story and walk into it. Welcome to the era of brain power where the amount of input you feed into your brain determines your output in life. In this time and age, resources availbale at the click of a mouse provides opportunities for individual, business, organisation and government to achieve peak performance in the pursuit of its vision. To the individual, peak performance is becoming all you can be, exceeding your optimum in the pursuit of your most imaginable challenge. It also conotes living the extraordinary life that you deserve. For the business, organisation or government peak performance is exceeding the greatest challenge in the pursuit of its mission. Peak performance come by beating your challenge. It is obtainable through creative thinking, motivation, hardwork, discipline, passion and commitment. Succesful nation of the future are those who develop high quality skilled and motivating workforce that can exceeds the most imaginable challeges in their organisation. Achieving peak performance in any orgnisation begins with a leader who defines the mission and sets the focus. Such a leader must have a clear picture in his mind what the organisation plans to do. That leader must be an inspiring and motivating player, a role model who provides a benchmark for others to follow. He nurtures each worker in the right place within the organisation inspiring trust in himself and the orgnisation. The leader stays inside the story.Let me say that there should be more than one inspirational leader within the same organisation. Of course each worker should be a motivating worker in his own place. The story continues with a clear definition of the organisation'mission. Why does your organisation exists? what meaning does it provides? What need does it meet? What difference does it make?the mission explained the motive behing the establishment, why it does exist and shows the way forward. Mission defined provides direction for all stakeholders of the organisation. In truth, peak performance is measured on the basis of the greatest imaginable challenge that an individual or organisation sets for itself. The challenge must be realistic and tangible. It is on this challenge that all participants must target and concentrate decisive forrce. And as soon as the challege is knocked off, the leader look out for another streching and rewarding challenge to keep the wave of peak performance flowing. For example one of the permanent challenge you can keep exploring as a manufacturer or service provider is to relentlessy look for ways to expand your customers/client base. The next vital ingredient to nurturing peak performance is focus. focus is the concentrating of all energies on actions needed to achieve the organisation's mission.Focus is identifying specific action that must be taken to meet the challenge. And I will recommend that the action should be few to enable maximum concentration. Focus helps to clarifies values and priorities. In fact, peak performance principles works in every area of human endeavours; for individual, business, organisation, government or the society at large. Clive Gilson, Mike Pratts and other reseachers at the University of Waikaito, New Zealand did extensive reseach on top sports organisation and discovered that there are consistent practices that enables the players to work together enjoyably and effectively to exceeding their greatest imaginable challenges. Lets take a football team that has the challenge of winning all its continental matches. Its focus should be how to hire the best coach, recruit and develop the

MATTHEW OYE P.O. BOX GP 20275, ACCRA GHANA WEST AFRICA email: matthewoye@yahoo.com

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About the Author

Songwriter, poet,prolific writer and motivatonal speaker, Matthew Oye writes the popular THINK TANK WITH MATTHEW OYE column in the evening news. Matthew has written 14 books (unpublished) and composed over 3,000 choral songs.Matthew is based in Accra, Ghana west africa