Saturday, July 10, 2021

HOW TO OLYMPIANS SET GOALS ?

 I was recently reading the book "Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?". This book is about an underdog story of Ben Hunt-Davis and his team's journey to Olympic gold in the men’s Rowing Eight at Sydney 2000.


They developed a whole new way of working and began challenging everything they did with the question: “Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?” If it did, they would keep doing it, if it didn’t they’d try something different.

By focusing on their performance (rather than results), their results started improving.

The team followed a peculiar goal setting approach known as 'Layered Goals'. The four layers included:
1. the crazy
2. the concrete
3. the control
4. the everyday layer

The crazy layer of your goal is, obviously, the outrageous one, a big bold goal.

The concrete layer provides the foundation. The concrete layer is where the crazy layer becomes specific. So, winning a gold medal results in rowing with certain time.

The control layer is about separating what you can from what you can’t control. e.g. You certainly can’t control the weather but you can control how often you would train.

the everyday layer, which included the actions we can do daily.

How do you think the layered goals approach can be used at work ?

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