Like you I expect, I was glued to the TV for the Olympics and the Paralympics...
It was staggering to watch medal after medal being won in cycling by Team GB. In all, 15 gold medals in what was an astonishing team performance! What message should we here at Education Leeds take from the performance of Team GB? Why do some of our teams achieve surprisingly high performance levels and other similarly equipped teams fail to do so? What does it take to become consistently brilliant these days?
The world is growing and changing faster than we can adapt. We are in many ways poorly prepared to deal with the rate of change we now face. Many of us have willingly embraced the need to constantly grow and develop but some of us are still in denial and some of us are simply confused. Do you have a brutally clear view of your current performance? Can you define the challenges and forces at work on you? Does everybody in your organisation know, understand, and care about the strategy to build brilliant as much as you do?
Gold medals and brilliant GCSE results certainly don't come without a struggle! Do you really love what you do at work? The tragedy for many organisations is that they have become places where managers apply pressure to performance levers rather than lead people to perform.
Chris
It was staggering to watch medal after medal being won in cycling by Team GB. In all, 15 gold medals in what was an astonishing team performance! What message should we here at Education Leeds take from the performance of Team GB? Why do some of our teams achieve surprisingly high performance levels and other similarly equipped teams fail to do so? What does it take to become consistently brilliant these days?
The world is growing and changing faster than we can adapt. We are in many ways poorly prepared to deal with the rate of change we now face. Many of us have willingly embraced the need to constantly grow and develop but some of us are still in denial and some of us are simply confused. Do you have a brutally clear view of your current performance? Can you define the challenges and forces at work on you? Does everybody in your organisation know, understand, and care about the strategy to build brilliant as much as you do?
Gold medals and brilliant GCSE results certainly don't come without a struggle! Do you really love what you do at work? The tragedy for many organisations is that they have become places where managers apply pressure to performance levers rather than lead people to perform.
Chris
1 comment:
Is it the pursuit of medlas/gcses or the pursuit of excellence that provdes the motive force for development and growth?
I think there are important differences between educationalists and athletes and the psychological performance paradigm that succeeeds for one may not work for the other.
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