ORIGINS
Where performance became more than results.
My experience as a USTA Coaching Professional and my work with Tim Gallwey’s Inner Game methodology have shaped how I think about performance — on the court and at work.
FROM THE COURT TO THE EXPERIENCE OF WORK
Tennis has given me a particularly useful place to observe performance. As a USTA Coaching Professional, I’ve seen that the result — the score — tells us something important. But it doesn’t tell us everything about the performance that produced it. A player can win while struggling with attention, confidence, energy, decision-making, or interference. Another can lose while learning, adapting, and developing capabilities that will improve future performance. The result matters. But the result is not the whole experience.
THE INNER GAME
Tim Gallwey’s work, beginning with The Inner Game of Tennis and extending into The Inner Game of Work, challenged conventional assumptions about how people learn and perform. His emphasis on awareness, attention, learning, and reducing interference deeply influenced the way I began looking at performance beyond sport. I subsequently became a Certified Methodology Facilitator with The Inner Game Institute, bringing those principles into my work with individuals, leaders, and organizations.
FROM TENNIS TO WORK
At work, just as on a tennis court, we tend to pay enormous attention to what we can see: the score, the result, the goal, the performance. But there is another experience taking place underneath those outcomes. Is the person able to focus? Do they have the capacity to perform? Are they learning and adapting? What is interfering? Are they energized or depleted? Does what they’re doing still feel worthwhile? Those questions eventually led me beyond performance alone and toward the broader experience of work.
THE WORK FRAME™
Work Frame™ grew from that exploration. It provides a simple way to step back from the result and consider three dimensions of the experience producing it.
PERFORMANCE
Can I perform?
LEARNING
Am I growing?
ENJOYMENT
Is it still worth it?
Inspired by. Developed independently. Work Frame™ and Performance Xchange™ are independently developed Work Reframe methodologies. My work with The Inner Game Institute and the writings of Tim Gallwey have been important influences on my thinking, but these methodologies are not products of or representations of The Inner Game Institute.