Today we spoke with John Bull - Specialist in High Performance Leadership and Teams, Head of High Performance at Management Futures. This episode was brought to you by Hauora - a performance wellbeing growth partner. Hauora aims to educate and impact individual and organisational culture to ignite health, wellbeing, and performance. Find out more at www.HauoraLife.com John has researched the leadership behind some of the best performance environments in the world - in business, in sport, the social sector, and science for over two decades. He has applied these insights into his consultancy work, helping spark performance cultures and leadership development processes, such as developing the mindset and skills to get the best out of talent. At Management Futures, John leads in 3 key areas: Leadership skills development, Team Performance, and Culture. Today we speak about talent-rich environments, talent, and the environment, and the definition using these words around performance - in essence, what do the best have in common?. We discuss how the business world differs from high performance sport, what one world can learn from the other - and approach psychological safety, teaming, and belonging. We discuss the different types of performance environments to understand what kind of environment is actually manifesting, such as achievement-led...and how to enable leaders to blossom.  John unpacks the importance of feedback and performance reviews to liberate talent, get better, set higher standards, and further engage people. He explains why he is excited about further researching effort into building relationships, simplifying ideas - and his favourite part of New Zealand, his country of birth. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Key timestamps: 01. 25 - What are the keys to creating an environment where leaders and HP tick. 02. 35 - Key ingredients to an excellent organisation. 05. 35 - How the pandemic has exposed truly great leadership. 06. 00 - Psychological Safety and belonging. 07. 38 - Put energy into building a lasting relationship. 08. 38 - Sports has taken psychology more seriously 09. 22 - Pixar and how they rode creativity > 11. 29 - How a leader can create the best environment 14. 53 - Unconscious dividing the world into them and us 16. 10 - Silos in psychological safety and status 17. 10- Two conversations one in our head, what we share 20. 35 - Learn mate, feedback - Formula 1 and America's Cup 22. 17 - How leaders can have courageous conversations 26. 19 - Johns career journey 30. 40 - Anders Ericsson and chasing mastery 33. 20 - Bletchley Park and creating learning environments 34. 28 - High performance and collaboration 35. 05 - Creating simile ideas from complex ideals 37. 22 - What does high performance mean to you?