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A compelling example comes from a senior manager at a multinational bank. By gathering managers together to agree on their common goal and the plans to achieve it, the manager fostered collaboration and commitment among the team. This inclusive approach allowed all team members to contribute their strengths and expertise, leading to a successful turnaround of underperforming regional offices.
The aim is to encourage them to get away from ‘It’s not my fault, all these things are external to me’, to ‘I could influence some of this stuff, as a team.’ Building on the huge success of the original, this second edition includes two completely new chapters - on high-performance conversations and performance under pressure - as well as a general update based on the successes people and businesses have reaped from the first edition. Olympians split goals into four layers: the crazy layer , the concrete laye r, the control layer and the everyday layer .
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The concrete layer helps you do this. For example, you can turn your crazy layer goal of winning Olympic gold into a concrete layer goal with specifics: aiming to row 2000 meters in five minutes and 18 seconds. Considering this is a world record pace, your dreams of gold may just come true! The crazy one is for the objective you can only daydream about. The concrete one is for specifying this objective into measurable quantities. The control layer is for deciding what you can, and what you can’t influence. Finally, the everyday one is for your day-to-day training program. Ben Hunt-Davies is a former British rower turned author and performance expert. He won an Olympic gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, as part of the first British rowing team to do so since 1912.
The choice is yours, average work, yields average results. In today’s competitive economy it is easy to think you cannot change anything and to act like victims of circumstance. But in this current business climate, we are all in the same boat, some boats just go faster than others, so use the pressure to set the bar higher and to improve your focus. Choose your attitude and get the right mindset. Finally, the everyday layer outlines the steps you need to take on a daily basis that are vital to achieving your crazy layer goal. For example, on Mondays you could complete 20 bench presses in five minutes. On Tuesdays, you could make sure to row with teammates for at least one hour, and so on throughout the week. Life’s not worth living if it isn’t fun. Can you spend a decade of your life doing things that aren’t entertaining? Of course, you can’t. And you shouldn’t. Have you ever read a book where you came across an unfamiliar word? Books have the power to improve your vocabulary by introducing you to new words. The more you read, the more your vocabulary grows, along with your ability to effectively communicate. Additionally, reading improves writing skills by helping the reader understand and learn different writing styles. Anything is possible, never give up -Ben’s story is a great example of someone who overcame a stream of constant challenges, but he kept going rather than letting them prevent him from reaching his goal. We may not have the same challenges as Ben, but we should all work to overcome barriers that are thrown at us so we can become better each day. It's also easy to justify failure due to these barriers, but then live a life of regret....'if only....'.In performance psychology, there is a concept known as “implementation intentions,” which is a strategy to plan for the worst — so you can perform your best. I now knew that sleep was crucial, I knew that eating properly was crucial and I knew that being able to talk problems through was crucial. Your company, organisation or team are a boat. All of the people involved in these entities are the crew. Your collective goal is to make the boat go as fast as you can. Everything you do should be based on the simple question…. “will it make the boat go faster?”
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