Top Tips from Raise the Bar
Lessons from Sport - All sport achievers:
1. Have a dream - They dream the impossible and make it happen, through dedication and motivation, two qualities which can have a great impact on your company and the qualities our motivational speakers are able to awake within your staff.
2. Have specific goals and they break those goals down into achievable steps - You can’t become a World Champion overnight; you have to tackle hurdles regularly along the way and celebrate each success as it is achieved.
3. Combine mind, body and action - They know that their goals can be achieved when they link the right mental attitude with fitness, diet and physical skills.
4. Have a vision and learn to visualise their goal - They play through a vision of success like a video of the mind. Jack Nicklaus, possibly the greatest golfer of all time, says 90 percent of his success has come from the ability to visualise where every shot is going to land.
5. Have a passion - They have an overwhelming desire to succeed. It is this passion that makes them the perfect choice as motivational speakers.
6. Have a positive attitude towards mistakes - They don’t even call them mistakes, they call them practice. Even Bjorn Borg, John McEnroe and Martina Navratilova belted balls into the net thousands of times on the way to the top. No teacher marked these shots as failures, just essential parts of learning.
7. Achieve by doing - Sport is a hands on operation. You don’t achieve by reading a book although it may help with the theory. You don’t develop the right muscles staring at a television set. You don’t jump 9 metres in a classroom. All sports achievements result from action.
8. Direct themselves towards what they want - In sport what you tell yourself before a performance will affect the outcome and “if you think you can, you can, if you think you can’t, you are right”. They focus on the win and not the consequences of loosing.
9. Have a team that pushes towards the same goal - Sports people deal in the black or white world of performance and have teams that focus on the same. Everyone understands that failure to hit their own individual targets will affect the ability to achieve the team goal. Everyone works to a 10 in the sporting world and this should be the case in your "world". Why not use staff engagement to help each of your workers work to the perfect 10.
10. Have routines that guarantee them success - All successful performers will have a winning routine that fills them with confidence and focuses the mind to get them in the zone for performance. This crucial preparation enables them to focus on the outcome they need.
11. Practice under pressure - Sports people don’t expect performance to just happen naturally they have to work at it to ensure that technique holds up in even the most pressurized situations. Golfer Colin Montgomery for instance would after every training session practice 100 consecutive 3ft putts, if he missed the 99th he would start from the beginning! Although this did not replicate the exact pressure he would be under in a major it ensured that when he was faced with a 3ft putt to win a tournament he felt confident he would be successful.
12. Understand the benefits of coaching - In sport every interaction from the coach is a coaching interaction. Coaching is an ongoing process to get the most out of the individual sports person; it’s a natural process that works towards a performance goal.
Each of these qualities mentioned above can be applied in business and this is what makes Raise the Bar a success. We use sporting heroes as motivational speakers as they have each of these qualities and can teach you how to use them to make a success of something or they can teach you to teach others to do better. Please click here for more information on our motivational speakers and what they can do for you.