Navigate the Manager’s Glass Ceiling
Managers & Sports Teams seeking a competitive advantage
Glass Ceiling
Typically a manager is business orientated, similar to upper middle management or senior leadership in the corporate world, but happens to operate in a sporting environment. As a result they are responsible for developing a strategy to acquire and leverage new and available resources in the form of people, time and money, as well as oversee day to day operations, all of which combine to enable thire coaches and athletes to build short and long term sporting success. They are the CEO of sporting success.
However, like many middle managers and senior leaders in any organisation they once excelled as a technical operator. They still pursue excellence in their role, but never fully developed the skills of strategic thinking and influencing, which means they struggle to define and articulate an executable strategy and associated objectives to their organisation, which reinforces the pitfalls a coach experiences, as stated on my Coaches page.
In terms of resources, as with Athletes and Coaches it’s most likely they have overlooked the competitive advantage of training for 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.
As the CEO of sporting success the absence of purposefully-practised performance psychology strategies and tactics that generate new-ways of thinking, therefore new-ways of working ensures they contribute to 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: Manager progress based on the success of their coaches and athletes in training and previous events until they reach a level at which they can no longer develop effective organisational strategies to remain competitive as the strategy used 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 manager has cultivated a group of athletes, coaches and support staff, capable of ensuring they fulfill their part of the organisational strategy and objectives. To do so, our manager will have laid out their vision, resulting mission with short & long term objectives and suggested steps to achieving them, which they have articulated clearly in way that demonstrates how each person plays their role in achieving sporting success. This may include a board and shareholders.
When one of their coaches or support staff bumps up against a problem in pursuit of their objective the manager facilitates them to solve the problem for themselves, cultivating strategic thinking and autonomy throughout the organisation.
The manager creates an environment in which their athletes, coaches and support staff can challenge their decisions and thinking to catch their blind spots and share new ideas, especially as the manager can experience intellectual isolation and overlook mission critical data or insight. My job is to nudge you as a manager, step by step through your glass ceiling 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 Manager’s Glass Ceiling
Manager’s & Sports Teams seeking a competitive advantage
Glass Ceiling
Typically a manager is business orientated, similar to upper middle management or senior leadership in the corporate world, but happens to operate in a sporting environment. As a result they are responsible for developing a strategy to acquire and leverage new and available resources in the form of people, time and money, as well as oversee day to day operations, all of which combine to enable thire coaches and athletes to build short and long term sporting success. They are the CEO of sporting success.
However, like many middle managers and senior leaders in any organisation they once excelled as a technical operator. They still pursue excellence in their role, but never fully developed the skills of strategic thinking and influencing, which means they struggle to define and articulate an executable strategy and associated objectives to their organisation, which reinforces the pitfalls a coach experiences, as stated on my Coaches page.
In terms of resources, as with Athletes and Coaches it’s most likely they have overlooked the competitive advantage of training for 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.
As the CEO of sporting success the absence of purposefully-practised performance psychology strategies and tactics that generate new-ways of thinking, therefore new-ways of working ensures they contribute to 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: Manager progress based on the success of their coaches and athletes in training and previous events until they reach a level at which they can no longer develop effective organisational strategies to remain competitive as the strategy used 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 manager has cultivated a group of athletes, coaches and support staff, capable of ensuring they fulfill their part of the organisational strategy and objectives. To do so, our manager will have laid out their vision, resulting mission with short & long term objectives and suggested steps to achieving them, which they have articulated clearly in way that demonstrates how each person plays their role in achieving sporting success. This may include a board and shareholders.
When one of their coaches or support staff bumps up against a problem in pursuit of their objective the manager facilitates them to solve the problem for themselves, cultivating strategic thinking and autonomy throughout the organisation.
The manager creates an environment in which their athletes, coaches and support staff can challenge their decisions and thinking to catch their blind spots and share new ideas, especially as the manager can experience intellectual isolation and overlook mission critical data or insight. My job is to nudge you as a manager, step by step through your glass ceiling 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