Greater Purpose

TPR believes there is a difference between human performance and athletic, sports, or tactical performance. Athletic performance can be simply summarized as a player scoring points during a game for a team, with traditional manners of training focusing on what will make the player successful during the game.

TPR believes human performance achieves a greater purpose, such as the athlete using sports as a vehicle to drive great habits, create a work ethic, improve the seven dimensions of wellness, etc. Focusing on the individual in a holistic manner will make the individual more successful on and off the court or battlefield. Notably, by emphasizing human performance over athletic performance, the individual will perform better in competition.

Leadership

Critical to human performance is leadership. TPR believes that many organizations do not provide the resources necessary for leadership development, while selecting leadership based off wrong traits. Furthermore, TPR believes that many organizations do not fully unleash the organization’s potential by not emphasizing leadership.

TPR believes that every individual in the organization is a leader, which if cultivated can have exponential benefits. If leadership is not developed, then individuals can divide the organization, leading to the organization under-performing.

Learning

TPR continually strives to be a Tier 1 Learning Organization. TPR believes that Tier 1 Learning Organizations have extensive knowledge, autonomy, curiosity, passion, enthusiasm, and conduct and circulates research. Put simply, Tier 1 Learning Organizations are similar to Master Chefs in the kitchen, as they know both the science and art of cooking, with others seeking out their expertise.

Discipline

You cannot have exceptional performance without discipline. Discipline is required for overperformance for both individuals and teams. The goal under the TPR Model is to have the clients embraced intrinsic discipline over extrinsic discipline, meaning the individuals intrinsically choose to have discipline rather than be coerced through external means.

Put simply, “to master the disciplines of your field, you must first master discipline.”

Abilities

Under the TPR Model, we believe most organizations create capabilities, meaning they train, educate, and equip their players, teams, or tactical personnel. However, TPR believes in creating abilities, which requires the capability (training, education, and equipping), combined with the needed relationships and permissions needed to unleash the capability, while being resilient to adversity.

TPR believes that ability organizations are more resilient (to both success and failure), are a learning organization, and can be more adaptive and innovative. TPR itself continually seeks to pursue being an ability organization by developing the relationships and permissions needed for success in the human performance fields by recognizing the value that other professionals provide.

Accountability

Accountability is essential for continued progression and performance. The lack of accountability will lead to stagnation, entitlement, and toxicity in an organization. Accountability is not about being harsh or demeaning. Accountability is about acknowledgement of shortfalls, ownership of the setbacks, and efforts to remedy the situation.

Holding others accountable, in the right way, shows that you have high standards and expectations for them, in which you are either implicitly or explicitly stating you know that they can achieve.

Valued Experience

Extensive research by Anders Ericson show that many individuals do not become experts in their profession, despite years of practice. Put simply, most individuals have years of experience of being average and not progressing. Thus, TPR emphasizes valued experience. Meaning experience that is exceptional and continually improving.

True Performance Realization

The business name and model (True Performance Realization) reflect our belief in the capacity and abilities of the human performance methodology proposed.

• True: Explicitly, when we say “True,” we mean that we believe we have a correct, exact, accurate, and factual model for eliciting human performance. We are also saying that many organizations that claim the term “performance,” are myopic, incomplete, and suboptimal in the manner for preparation and execution.
• Performance: In the TPR Model, we believe you must define performance to truly facilitate performance, which is accomplished in the “performance analyses.” We do not believe most organizations that claim “performance” attempt to define it, and when they do, these organizations define performance inadequately.
• Realization: The term “realization” is commonly used in the strength and conditioning world to describe the condition of increased physical preparedness that occurs when stress is removed from the individual(s) thus, elevating readiness for either competition or subsequent training. In the TPR Model, we believe that the purpose of preparation is for holistic realization.