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The key to winning your ultimate goal whether you are talking about a sporting team or a business team is to execute the skills required under pressure. Just like coaches train their team in sports, we can ensure our team comes fully prepared for whatever is thrown in front of them.

Whatever we face in business there’s a great analogy between sport and business. At the end of any sporting season, our goal is to win a grand final.

It doesn’t matter if the grand final you’re playing in is on a sporting team and you walk away with a trophy. In business, the grand final can be a sales pitch, where you are trying to get some consultancy work, or whether the grand final is working with an individual to make a sale. Or it could be a leader working with his or her team to make changes.

Let’s talk about skills. What does it require to win a grand final using a grand final performance as a metaphor for business.

Set up real scenarios to practice, practice, practice.

3 Stages of Learning New or Refining Skills

Stage 1 They will become rudimentary skills, they will be clunky and ugly but when you teach them new skills you’ve got let them develop

Step 2 They will be able to do those skills without thinking about it. They will become unconsciously competent in those skills

Step 3 – They will be able to do all of those skills under pressure, whether that be time pressure or fatigue.