Precision Performance podcast

Jake Labhart is a former Army Airborne Infantryman, who founded In Extremis Performance after his military service to fill a critical void in tactical training. Focusing on law enforcement and special operations units at all levels, he has spent the last 5 years creating human performance programs to boost effectiveness and longevity. With a Doctorate from Campbell University, Jake designs researc...

What makes for effective training in tactical and critical response Occupations? To help answer this questions and improve awareness, a group of researchers recently published a study on “Factors Related to Negative Transfer of Training in Safety‐Critical Professions: An Interview Study”  They separated the factors in several factors related to the Trainee, Training design and Organisational Envir...

In this episode we touch on the difference between routine and adaptive expertise for occupations that work in complex or chaotic environments and why the traditional method of trying to develop routine expertise may be a suboptimal approach.  When we look at " Routine expertise" t he focus is on getting things done using known solutions in stable environments. While " Adaptive expe...

A In law enforcement, the military, and other tactical organizations, the beep test has long been a benchmark for assessing aerobic fitness—ensuring recruits are physically ready to meet the demands of their duties. But here's the catch: in recent years, many organizations have lowered their entry standards to attract more recruits. While this may seem like a win for diversity and accessibili...

This short discussion explores linear and non-linear motor skill development to emphasise the need to understand the operational needs, your students, your learning outcomes and the principles underlying what you're trying to achieve. To develop the most effective training methodology to maximise the transfer of training to operaitonal performance. 

Knowledge shields are a form of cognitive rigidity that we regularly use and encounter, which can impede the formation of new knowledge, updating old knowledge and learning. It Is the general tendency to preserve old models, beliefs or misconceptions through denial or defensive mechanisms, including downplaying the importance or relevance of contradictory data, arguing from authority, resorting to...

This episode explores some of the co-factors associated with MTBI in the military, the considerations and difficulty in isolating the impact of blast exposure, and the behaviours we can do to reduce the risks of cognitive degeneration.

Does the scan develop an effective combat behaviour of is it just range theatrics? This discussion explores some of the considerations to improve the way we provide critical training.

In this episode, I speak with Sam Cox. Sam was raised in South Devon and throughout his school years developed a taste for the outdoors living close to both the beach and Dartmoor. This sense of adventure continued after he left school and joined the Royal Marines in 2010. He has tested himself throughout the globe’s harshest environments from the humidity of the jungles in Brunei, the heat of Cen...

Today I want to ask the question, could the Pygmalion effect be having an impact on individual mental health outcomes? The Pygmalion or Rosenthal effect is a psychological phenomenon in which the leader's high expectations can lead to improved performance and low expectations lead to worsened performance. Subconsciously influencing their actions and behaviours in relation to those individuals...

Are we asking the right questions about veteran suicide in Australia? Should we look at it as a wicked problem, where each individual has their own multifactorial circumstances and co-dependency from their own environment that we can find specific interventions for?  Rather than grouping everyone into a causal effect theory from Defence Service? Rather than classify everyone who has one day of ser...

In this episode, I have the pleasure of speaking to Shuan O'gorman. Shaun O’Gorman is a Human Behaviour, High Performance and Resilience consultant, keynote speaker, and author. After joining the Queensland Police Service in 1989, Shaun worked in the Police Dog Squad for many years as well as the Covert and Surveillance unit working on Major and Organised Crime. While in the K9 unit Shaun was...

Welcome to the Critical Response Performance and Innovation podcast, this episode's guest is Andy Bell. Andy Bell is a Senior Lecturer in Paramedicine at Griffith University, Gold Coast Australia.  He is a PhD candidate at the University of Southern Queensland and most recently took up a full-time role as Paramedic Team Leader for TacMed Australia.  His role at TacMed includes the clinical go...

Today's episode is a special edition dedicated to those who serve in the QPS and broader Law Enforcement community, as a special thank you for doing what you do in keeping us safe and to try and offer something back to help, in your time of need.  In this interview, I have the pleasure of being joined by Melanie Freeman to cover topics around leadership, social connection and growth following...

In this episode, I talk with Nathan Durbridge about leadership and considerations for managing the health and wellbeing of healthcare staff during periods of intense disease outbreaks.  Nathan is the Deputy Nurse Manager Quality and Risk for Alfred Health Emergency, Nathan is responsible for the delivery of the National Safety and Quality Health Standards across both the Alfred Emergency & Tra...

In today’s episode I speak with Dr Dan Pronk about self-care and developing resilience for front line health care workers during times of increased pressure, specifically as we are experiencing right now in Australia. Dan openly shares from his experience working extensively in high pressure, high threat environments and personal experience with both acute and chronic trauma with the contextual un...

Values are generally considered part of our morale compass that guides our behaviours around who we want to be and where we want to head in life. If we don't know who we are though, how do we know where we want to go and the behaviours that we need to develop along that path.  As well well as how we act when our path conflicts with our values, or our intended destination changes.  This episod...

In this episode we talk about IDENTITY, a lot of the complexity we introduce into our world comes from how we form our identity and the emotional impact that can have. So in this episode we explore; - Where our identity comes from,  - How this determines who we are - How it impacts how we see our self value   - How we compare ourselves to others  - How does this impact the way we seek reward and a...

In this episode its an absolute pleasure to speak with the Author of the great new book, The Sporting Parent. Nathan Parnham is a strength and conditioning specialist located in Brisbane Australia. His career spans close to two decades in working in both amateur and professional sport. This includes setting up several successful high school athletic development programs throughout the country acro...

In Episode #5 of the Solo-cast we discus several of the factors associated with increased risk of male aggression from childhood to adolescence and adulthood. We discuss what those risk factors are, what really underlies these factors and the interventions that have shown to mitigate these risks. If we want to reduce aggression and then we need to understand how these behaviours evolve and what re...

Think about how you think. When you are faced with something important or the unknown, do you think about what could go wrong, what will cause you to fail or what you are afraid of? What if your thoughts focused on what if everything went to plan, everything went right, I'm am good enough to do this, I will belong here or I deserve this?  Think about children, a child will see something new a...

Listen in to understand how we develop resilience or lack of through our learned behaviour. How from an early age we learn how to respond, or react to situations of adversity, setback or challenge through observing the behaviour and actions of those with significant influence over us. Or even how our own responses are observed by those who we hold influence over.  If you want to be more resilient,...

Making the CHOICE to be mentally strong or resilient in the face of adversity is literally the first step in being mentally strong. To achieve what you want from life you need to lean into discomfort and make the choice to take whatever comes at you.  Avoidance however, is also a choice!

Welcome to the new Solo-cast, this weekly podcast will bring you the latest evidence based concepts, theories and research aimed at developing the behaviours and habits to optimise your mental and physical performance to get you to your peal potential.

Rachel Vickery is a Human Behaviour and High-Performance Consultant, optimising performance, culture, communication and resilience in high pressure, high-stress and high stakes scenarios. She consults with Professional and Elite athletes, coaches and organisations; and other high-performance arenas including C-suite execs, trauma and emergency medicine personnel, elite military teams and tactical...