{"id":23746,"date":"2024-03-04T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/?post_type=article&#038;p=23746"},"modified":"2025-12-15T05:11:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T05:11:01","slug":"intelligence-debrief-february-2024","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/intelligence-debrief-february-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Intelligence Debrief &#8211; February 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- blocks\/hero-editorial -->\n<!-- inc\/hero-editorial -->\n<div class=\"hero es-hero__editorial hero--var-1\" role=\"banner\">\n\t<div class=\"hero__image\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/GettyImages-2007048253-scaled.jpg);\">\n\n\t\t<div class=\"hero__overlay grad-overlay content-bottom\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"hero__content\">\n                    \n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"hero__content__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t                            <p class=\"es-label es-label--md\">\n                                4 Mar 2024                            <\/p>\n                        \t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\" class=\"theme-dark hero__back-link back-link es-label es-label--sm\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"icon icon--md icon--arrow-left\"><\/span>Articles<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"hero__title\">Intelligence Debrief &#8211; February 2024<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n        \n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n    <section class=\"es-section theme-light hero__sidebar-wrapper container\">\n        <div class=\"hero__sidebar\">\n                            <div class=\"category-list\">\n                  <div class=\"es-label es-label--sm\">Category<\/div>\n                  <a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/category\/leadership-culture-performance\/\" rel=\"tag\">Leadership &amp; Culture<\/a>                <\/div>\n                            <div class=\"share-list\">\n                  <div class=\"es-label es-label--sm\">Share<\/div>\n                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/intelligence-debrief-february-2024\/\">Facebook<\/a>\n                  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/intelligence-debrief-february-2024\/&#038;text=Intelligence Debrief - February 2024\">Twitter<\/a>\n                  <a href=\"mailto:?subject=Here's a Leaders In Sport article for you &amp;body=Check out this article: Intelligence Debrief - February 2024. https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/intelligence-debrief-february-2024\/\">Email<\/a>\n                  <a href=\"#copyLink\" id=\"copyButton\" class=\"copy-link-clipboard\">Copy Link<\/a>\n                  <div id=\"textToCopy\" class=\"font-hidden\">https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/intelligence-debrief-february-2024\/<\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n\n<!-- blocks\/section -->\n<section\n  class=\"es-section flexible-section  text-only theme-light\"\n    >\n                <div class=\"container\">\n                                    <div class=\"bg-striped-pattern__inner section-padding-top section-padding-bottom\">\n                <div class=\"es-section__inner col-parent col-parent--stack-sm\">\n                                            <div class=\"es-section__sidebar es-section__sidebar--sticky col col--12 \">\n                                                            <p class=\"es-section__label es-label es-label--md\">A summary of insights, lessons and advice shared by Leaders Performance Institute members and industry experts during February.<\/p>\n                            \n                            \n                            \n                                                            <div class=\"es-section__text content-area\">\n                                    <p><h6>By John Portch<\/h6>\n<h6>February flew by at the Leaders Performance Institute, although there was plenty to engage Leaders Performance members along the way.<\/h6>\n<p>First, there was our return to the Glasshouse in Melbourne for our second Leaders Sport Performance Summit in that neck of the woods. Thank you to everyone who was able to join us in Australia. There was also a number of virtual roundtables digging into the pressing performance topics of the day.<\/p>\n<p>As ever, this Intelligence Debrief is intended to provide an insight into the thoughts and actions of Leaders Performance Institute members across the globe. We always hope these nuggets inspire you to engage with the range of opportunities on offer through your membership.<\/p>\n<p>Final reminder: our 2024 Virtual Learning Schedule is live and the bill of fare should have plenty to whet your appetite, but for now, let\u2019s revisit some of February\u2019s tastiest morsels.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Leaders Sport Performance Summit: future-proofing your team<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cResearch suggests some of the most in-demand skills by 2030 will be how we work together, connect, and build empathy,\u201d Holly Ransom told the audience at the Glasshouse in early February.<\/p>\n<p>The renowned leadership speaker was just one of a series of speakers, drawn from organisations as diverse as the San Antonio Spurs, Cricket Australia and Melbourne Business School, to speak at our Sports Performance Summit.<\/p>\n<p>A fuller account can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/eight-ways-to-future-proof-your-team\/\">here<\/a>, but below are two ways you can future-proof your team:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Co-created strategies<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The recent renaissance in Australian cricket \u2013 the men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams are reigning world champions across four different formats \u2013 has not been a happy accident. Andrew McDonald and Shelley Nitschke, the head coaches of the men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams respectively, shared their wisdom with the audience.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>&#8216;What is high performance? It\u2019s the ability to move quickly and make good decisions.&#8217;<\/strong><\/h4>\n<pre>Andrew McDonald, Head Coach, Australia men\u2019s cricket team<\/pre>\n<h4><strong>&#8216;A large focus for us has been trying to create a welcoming and open environment.&#8217;<\/strong><\/h4>\n<pre>Shelley Nitschke, Head Coach, Australia women\u2019s cricket team<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Next steps:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bring your athletes onboard by giving them the agency to help shape your performance plan. McDonald sought to do this by shifting the discourse from talk of \u2018culture\u2019 to one of \u2018environment\u2019 so that players, particularly when on the road, can fashion for themselves safe spaces to share ideas. Whether it\u2019s tactics or using data, Australia\u2019s players are now empowered to make critical in-game decisions.<\/li>\n<li>Success may not be instant and outcomes may be erratic at first. Use low-consequence preparation matches to trial new tactics and strategies; then re-frame what winning means in those moments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><strong>Promote safe risk taking in the pursuit of innovation<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Kit Wise of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology [RMIT] and Budi Miller of the Theatre of Others, an innovative performing arts company, were invited onstage to share their approaches to fostering creativity and risk-taking in their environments.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>&#8216;Our philosophy is centred around inspiration, aspiration and expectation. Inspiration is liberating, fun, and what gives us desire. Aspiration \u2013 the why and our values and purpose. Expectation \u2013 have fun and think deeply about what you do so we can hold one another to account.&#8217;<\/strong><\/h4>\n<pre>Professor Kit Wise, Dean, School of Art, RMIT<\/pre>\n<h4><strong>&#8216;We talk a lot about play and playfulness in our philosophy. It is a sense of freedom where play and risk exist together. Play and playfulness elevate the speed of curiosity and problem solving.&#8217;<\/strong><\/h4>\n<pre>Budi Miller, Co-Artistic Director, Theatre of Others<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Next steps:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Risk-taking can be brave. Find ways to build trust and empathy within your team.<\/li>\n<li>Encourage risk-taking and rule-breaking in the pursuit of innovation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>(Additional reporting at the Glasshouse from Luke Whitworth.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Performance Support Series: How to Better Manage the Paradox of Winning and Wellbeing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In late February, Dr Meg Popovic hosted the first of a three-part Performance Support Series entitled \u2018Wellbeing \u2013 What\u2019s Having the Biggest Impact?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Popovic is the Senior Professional Sports Manager for North America at EPIC Global Solutions, the world\u2019s leading independent gambling harm minimisation consultancy and a valued Partner of the Leaders Performance Institute.<\/p>\n<p>She invited the group to posit ideas for what it takes to deliver wellbeing on a personal, interpersonal and organisational level.<\/p>\n<p>Members can access the full summary <a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/how-to-better-manage-the-paradox-of-winning-and-wellbeing\/\">here<\/a>, but below is a snapshot:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Collaboration<\/strong>. The smartest programmes consider the wealth of beliefs, opinions and decision-making processes of all stakeholders within an environment. Ensure you are emphasising to them all that wellbeing is critical to performance; encourage their input and use it to help shape your programmes; and answer any questions \u2013 over-communicate, if need be.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Systemisation<\/strong>. Consider how you are operationalising your programmes. With everyone contributing, you will have better means to onboard new staff as well as educating athletes to grow their understanding and give them agency in sustaining their own wellbeing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Alignment<\/strong>. When everyone is on the same page \u2013 coaches, sports science, medicine, strength &amp; conditioning, psychology and nutrition \u2013 it helps people to tell the same story about the importance of wellbeing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How do you approach the development of psychological resilience?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That question was tackled head on by Dr David Fletcher, the Professor of Human Performance &amp; Health and Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor for Sport, Health and Well-Being, at Loughborough University, in an <a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/is-an-athlete-resilient-or-merely-coping-why-it-is-important-to-understand-the-role-of-psychological-resilience-in-sustained-success\/\">exclusive interview<\/a> with the Leaders Performance Institute.<\/p>\n<p>He said:<\/p>\n<p>There is no magic bullet that is going to develop resilience \u2013 we need to look at it more holistically. To look at it from a bird\u2019s eye view, we need to focus on three main areas. The first area relates to personal qualities or the psychological makeup of an athlete or, if we\u2019re talking about a team, it\u2019s a little more around the psychosocial makeup of that team. In other words, the relationships that bind the team members together. Either way, that\u2019s the first thing that you would focus on.<\/p>\n<p>The second area that we look at tends to get neglected, in my opinion, is the environment in which an individual or a team is operating, their surrounding conditions, the facilities, the management, the teammates, all those types of things. We\u2019re talking about trying to optimise or manipulate that environment in such a way that it facilitates the development of resilience rather than either not stimulating that development of resilience at all or, the flip side of that, crushing individuals and putting them under too much pressure and, again, not leading to the development of resilience.<\/p>\n<p>The third area is the combined effect of personal qualities and the environment. What you\u2019re looking to develop is a challenge mindset. Individuals who step intro stressful situations and see it more as a challenge than a threat or, if we\u2019re talking about a team, rather than it being a mindset we\u2019re talking a bit more about a challenge culture in the dressing room. There\u2019s like a collective confidence and efficacy in stressful situations. If you just focus on one of those areas and neglect the others, in my view, you\u2019re not going to develop resilience optimally.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n                                <\/div>\n                            \n                            \n                            \n                                                    <\/div>\n                                        <div class=\"col visibly-hidden col--flex-align-right\">\n                                            <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":23747,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[20],"pathway":[],"topic":[],"sport":[],"class_list":["post-23746","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leadership-culture-performance"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Intelligence Debrief - February 2024 - Performance Institute<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/intelligence-debrief-february-2024\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Intelligence Debrief - February 2024 - Performance Institute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/intelligence-debrief-february-2024\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Performance Institute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-12-15T05:11:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/GettyImages-2007048253-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1707\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/GettyImages-2007048253-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/intelligence-debrief-february-2024\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/intelligence-debrief-february-2024\/\",\"name\":\"Intelligence Debrief - February 2024 - Performance Institute\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/intelligence-debrief-february-2024\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/intelligence-debrief-february-2024\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/GettyImages-2007048253-scaled.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-03-04T09:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-12-15T05:11:01+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/intelligence-debrief-february-2024\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/intelligence-debrief-february-2024\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/intelligence-debrief-february-2024\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/GettyImages-2007048253-scaled.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/GettyImages-2007048253-scaled.jpg\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":1707,\"caption\":\"LAS VEGAS, NV - FEBRUARY 11: The Kansas City Chiefs celebrate after Super Bowl LVIII against the San Francisco 49ers at Allegiant Stadium on February 11, 2024 in Las Vegas, NV. 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