Navigate the Coach’s Glass Ceiling
Coaches & Sports Teams seeking a competitive advantage
Glass Ceiling
It’s likely a coach was previously high performing athlete, that has reached their sunset years in their chosen discipline, want to continue working in their discipline and pass their valuable knowledge on to the next generation of athletes. They retain their relentless and remorseless pursuit of excellence, measured objectively in training and competition through times, points and/or podiums of the athletes in their charge.
The coach is an athletes and/or teams tactician who’s sole focus is developing athleticism, investing heavily in; strength & conditioning, movement analysis, skills drills, injury prevention, recovery and dietetics, all timetabled to test and progress athletic ability during training, at milestone events and to peak for specific events in any given year.
However, the coach has overlooked training to improve psychological performance concurrently with physiological performance; Visualisation of victory, anchor armour, focus during fatigue, decision error debrief and many other tools that can significantly reduce, even prevent, the cascade effect of on & off field decision errors, particularly in team sports.
Additionally, as the skillset of an athlete differs significantly from a coach they struggle to meaningfully communicate and frame skill development instruction and actionable feedback, as they are unaware of the need to intimately understand how each athlete absorbs, processes and acts on the information they provide. The absence of these skills is undermining performance gains and advantages achieved else where, which reinforces the pitfalls of an athletes experiences, as stated on my Athletes page.
The absence of purposefully-practised performance psychology strategies & tactics, and ability to communicate, that generates new-ways of thinking, therefore new-ways or working ensures the much needed competitive advantage of step-changes and/or marginal-gains to best a nearest or never-before-beaten rival remain elusive.
This follows The Peter Principle, represented below: Coaches progress based on the success of their athletes in training and previous events until they reach a level at which they can no longer develop athleticism, as their training strategies leveraged to attain success in one season may be obsolete by next season.
“We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.”
Archilochus - Greek Philosopher & Poet, 680-645 B.C.
Mission Ready
Ideally, a coach has cultivated and reinforced habits in their athletes that ensure psychological and physiological development go hand in hand to best ensure they fulfil their on & off field performance goals throughout the year.
The coach will likely find themselves in a political arena as a public figure, working closely with the manager to translate a performance strategy into athletic objectives for each athlete. When one of their athletes bumps up against a problem in pursuit of their objectives the coach facilitates the athlete to solve the problem with the resources are available to them.
Through the application of evidence based decision making in both physiological and psychological performance domains the coach works diligently to make any necessary adjustments to concurrently influence an athletes physiological and psychological states, increasing the likelihood of individually and/or collectively delivering peak performance in high stress contexts.
The coach will also leverage the information gathered during training and competition to inform and influence the decision making of the manager, providing a feedback loop that demonstrates whether the manager’s strategic decisions and resulting actions yielded the result anticipated or not, improving the quality of decisions made the manager over time.
My job is to nudge your coach or coaches, step by step, through their glass ceilings to mission ready.
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit”
Aristotle - Greek Philosopher & Polymath, 384-322 B.C.
Work with me
Would you, your team or organisation benefit from an objective perspective to catch your blindspots?
I work exclusively with highly motivated individuals and teams who’ve hit a glass ceiling, are aware they’ve hit a glass ceiling and unable to move forward. If this describes your situation then lets discuss your options.
“The world we created is a product of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. No problem can be solved with the same level of consciousness that created it”
Albert Einstein - Theoretical Physicist & Nobel Laureate
Stay ahead of the curve
Performance
35% growth in first 12 months of supporting tech company CEO
Successful merger and acquisition of £1.2million turnover company
Finance function of 274 achieved World Class status, 0.7% turnover
People
100% staff retention during redundancy and off-shoring process
36% sickness absence reduction across 300 staff in 9 months
15% engagement flipped to 80% across 241 people in 12 months
Process
50% reduction in Shared Service Centre operating costs, £5million
Re-engineered operational strategy for life sciences company in 8hrs
Re-engineered Multi-£Million Invalid Deduction Finance process in 16 hrs
Navigate the Coach’s Glass Ceiling
Coaches & Sports Teams seeking a competitive advantage
Glass Ceiling
It’s likely a coach was previously high performing athlete, that has reached their sunset years in their chosen discipline, want to continue working in their discipline and pass their valuable knowledge on to the next generation of athletes. They retain their relentless and remorseless pursuit of excellence, measured objectively in training and competition through times, points and/or podiums of the athletes in their charge.
The coach is an athletes and/or teams tactician who’s sole focus is developing athleticism, investing heavily in; strength & conditioning, movement analysis, skills drills, injury prevention, recovery and dietetics, all timetabled to test and progress athletic ability during training, at milestone events and to peak for specific events in any given year.
However, the coach has overlooked training to improve psychological performance concurrently with physiological performance; Visualisation of victory, anchor armour, focus during fatigue, decision error debrief and many other tools that can significantly reduce, even prevent, the cascade effect of on & off field decision errors, particularly in team sports.
Additionally, as the skillset of an athlete differs significantly from a coach they struggle to meaningfully communicate and frame skill development instruction and actionable feedback, as they are unaware of the need to intimately understand how each athlete absorbs, processes and acts on the information they provide. The absence of these skills is undermining performance gains and advantages achieved else where, which reinforces the pitfalls of an athletes experiences, as stated on my Athletes page.
The absence of purposefully-practised performance psychology strategies & tactics, and ability to communicate, that generates new-ways of thinking, therefore new-ways or working ensures the much needed competitive advantage of step-changes and/or marginal-gains to best a nearest or never-before-beaten rival remain elusive.
This follows The Peter Principle, represented below: Coaches progress based on the success of their athletes in training and previous events until they reach a level at which they can no longer develop athleticism, as their training strategies leveraged to attain success in one season may be obsolete by next season.
“We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.”
Archilochus - Greek Philosopher & Poet, 680-645 B.C.
Mission Ready
Ideally, a coach has cultivated and reinforced habits in their athletes that ensure psychological and physiological development go hand in hand to best ensure they fulfil their on & off field performance goals throughout the year.
The coach will likely find themselves in a political arena as a public figure, working closely with the manager to translate a performance strategy into athletic objectives for each athlete. When one of their athletes bumps up against a problem in pursuit of their objectives the coach facilitates the athlete to solve the problem with the resources are available to them.
Through the application of evidence based decision making in both physiological and psychological performance domains the coach works diligently to make any necessary adjustments to concurrently influence an athletes physiological and psychological states, increasing the likelihood of individually and/or collectively delivering peak performance in high stress contexts.
The coach will also leverage the information gathered during training and competition to inform and influence the decision making of the manager, providing a feedback loop that demonstrates whether the manager’s strategic decisions and resulting actions yielded the result anticipated or not, improving the quality of decisions made the manager over time.
My job is to nudge your coach or coaches, step by step, through their glass ceilings to mission ready.
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit”
Aristotle - Greek Philosopher & Polymath, 384-322 B.C.
Work with me
Would you, your team or organisation benefit from an objective perspective to catch your blindspots?
I work exclusively with highly motivated individuals and teams who’ve hit a glass ceiling, are aware they’ve hit a glass ceiling and unable to move forward. If this describes your situation then lets discuss your options.
“The world we created is a product of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. No problem can be solved with the same level of consciousness that created it”
Albert Einstein - Theoretical Physicist & Nobel Laureate
Stay ahead of the curve
Notable outcomes
-
35% growth in first 12 months of supporting tech company CEO
Successful merger and acquisition of £1.2million turnover company
Finance function of 274 achieved World Class status, 0.7% turnover
-
100% staff retention during redundancy and off-shoring process
36% sickness absence reduction across 300 staff in 9 months
15% engagement flipped to 80% across 241 people in 12 months
-
50% reduction in Shared Service Centre operating costs, £5million
Re-engineered operational strategy for life sciences company in 8hrs
Re-engineered Multi-£Million Invalid Deduction Finance process in 16 hrs