Perform

A Fast Company Press Book Train Like a Corporate Athlete to PERFORM as a Leader You work hard. You push through long days, constant demands, and the pressure to operate at a high level at work and at home. From the outside, you may look successful. But internally, the pace is taking a toll. Your energy is drained, your focus is scattered, and "business as usual" no longer feels sustainable. In PERFORM, leadership expert Sal Silvester introduces a new approach to high achievement--one inspired by the way elite athletes train, recover, and sustain excellence over time. Most leaders are taught to grind harder and sacrifice recovery in the name of results, but sustained success doesn't come from constant output. It comes from intentional preparation, emotional resilience, focused execution, strategic recovery, and purpose-driven work. Using his PERFORM model, Silvester shares practical tools and strategies to help you elevate how you lead, think, execute, and recover: - P - Build a powerful Pregame routine - E - Strengthen Emotional intelligence - R - Develop Resilience under pressure - F - Improve Focus in a distracted world - O - Optimize your habits, time, and energy - R - Prioritize Recovery to sustain elite performance - M - Find deeper Meaning in your work PERFORM is not about slowing down or lowering expectations. It's about building the capacity to operate at a high level so you can perform when it matters most, both professionally and personally.

Sal Silvester is an executive coach, leadership advisor, speaker, and CEO of 5.12 Solutions Consulting Group, a firm that helps executive teams elevate performance in healthier, more human ways. For more than two decades, Sal and his team have coached senior leaders across global organizations and high-growth companies to create workplaces where people can thrive. Sal is the founder and CEO of Coachmetrix and hosts the podcast Sal Silvester on the Future of Leadership. Drawing from his experience as a former Army officer, Accenture executive, entrepreneur, endurance athlete, and longtime Rocky Mountain Rescue volunteer, Sal brings a practical and deeply human perspective to leadership and performance. He is the author of The Deeply Human Workplace, Unite!, Ignite!, and Stakeholder Centered Coaching (with Marshall Goldsmith). Sal lives in Boulder, Colorado, with his wife, Rachel, and their two sons.