From the Boardroom to the Podium: Lessons from the Olympics

Following Australia’s resounding success at this year’s Olympic games, got us thinking about the long-term vision required to achieve such outstanding results. Let’s compare the high performance of a business to our gold medal athletes at the Olympics, where an athlete’s macro strategy typically begins at least four years in advance.

The Power of Long-Term Planning: A Lesson from Cameron McEvoy

A great example of long-term planning to achieve the elusive gold is the heroic efforts of Cameron McEvoy, whose journey spanned 12 years and involved meticulous refinement (you can read more about his journey here.)

Creating a Feedback Loop for Continuous Improvement

What is your business’s macro plan? Do you have a five-year strategy you are striving to achieve? To reach the gold medal podium, athletes rely on a critical feedback loop within their training regime, seeking incremental improvements to become number one. They watch endless hours of replays to fine-tune their strokes, jumps, and finishes, even using mid-training video replays to seize opportunities for improvement.

In business, what feedback loop do you utilise to review the metrics that matter? How do you and your team review your activities, objectives, and key results to achieve high performance at the pace of a 100m sprinter? What is the optimum time frame — daily, weekly, monthly—to check progress or coach for change?

Building Your Business Coaching Team for High-Performance

Let’s look at the coaching of an Olympic athlete to ensure they are ready to deliver in the moment. Head Coach, Strength Coach, Technical Coach, Sports Psychologist, and Nutritionist contribute to the recipe for high-performance success. If we examine the high-performance business ecosystem, what does that coaching team look like to deliver gold medal-standard results?

Consider Us as Part of Your Business Coaching Team

We have developed many solutions to put your business in the first place, so maybe it’s time to consider having us on your coaching team.