By our Dutch Partners
What does it take to create success in sport? Is it the talent to burn, big picture thinking and dedication? What if you are a great sportsman with a lack of self-knowledge? Could you get the best out of yourself while being part of a team that changes every season? In the Netherlands, more and more professional sport teams are beginning to discover the success of personality profiling to improve results.
Let's highlight two sports: football and hockey. Lumina Learning is working in the Netherlands with two highly motivated and ambitious teams: NAC Breda (football) and Hockeyclub OZ (hockey). Two teams play in the highest league of their category of sports and both very ambitious and eager to learn. Both are clubs with young players, one where players earn a good salary, and one where players earn a small allowance, or nothing at all.
Working with young ambitious people, makes the learning and development process very interesting. How do you create a safe environment? How do you cut the learning process into pieces that captures their attention, but still keep the empowerment of sharing knowledge? It is the law of “less is more” that we apply.
Another interesting element is working with different generations. The “young ones”, boys from 17 until 20 years old and the “oldies” between 20 and 30 years old. These are two different generations, not to mention the coach, trainers and staff. The younger generation will not bow for the authority of “oldies” just because they are older. This pragmatic generation demands respect, a good work life balance, and enthusiasm based on realistic goals. This presents a big problem, because the older members of the teams learned their leadership through experience and age, whether useful or not. Their leadership is based on authority in itself rather than what is best for the team in the circumstances.
What happens? The younger and older generations have difficulties connecting and that is where Lumina Spark starts to add value. We encouraged both teams to increase self knowledge and their understanding of others in their team through Lumina Spark. We are helping team members better connect on a personal level, to understand and value the differences within the team and organise interventions on weighing the different values.
The effect is greater understanding, more awareness, improved cooperation, less stress and better results for the teams involved. We are delighted to continue working with these professional sports people to transfer the accelerated results we deliver for businesses everyday onto the sports field.
We wonder what improved results would look like for your team?
No comments:
Post a Comment