{"id":825,"date":"2020-05-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/reports\/leaders-virtual-roundtables-winning-the-lockdown\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T05:12:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T05:12:19","slug":"ais-leaders-virtual-roundtables-winning-the-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/ais-leaders-virtual-roundtables-winning-the-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaders Virtual Roundtables: Winning the Lockdown"},"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\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1223107903.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                                May 13, 2020                            <\/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\">Leaders Virtual Roundtables: Winning the Lockdown<\/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\/coaching-development-performance\/\" rel=\"tag\">Coaching &amp; 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Listening: Leaders Performance Institute<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance\/podcast-at-home-with-leaders-sean-marks\/\"><u>Podcast: At Home With Leaders \u2013 Sean Marks<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance\/podcast-at-home-with-leaders-sean-dyche\/\"><u>Podcast: At Home With Leaders \u2013 Sean Dyche<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance\/leaders-virtual-roundtables-adaptive-leadership-in-a-vuca-world\/\"><u>Leaders Virtual Roundtables: Adaptive Leadership in a VUCA World<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><b> Group Challenges &amp; Areas of Interest: Winning the Lockdown<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Enthusiasm at getting back to competition. How do we capture and maximise the enthusiasm and excitement at getting back to influence performance?<\/li>\n<li>How do you manage expectations of players coming back into the environment? We will have assumptions of how that will work and look, but how do we manage the expectations if these assumptions do not materialise?<\/li>\n<li>Staff motivation: how to keep staff engaged and motivated? After everyone is back, how do prevent a lull or continue to drive motivation?<\/li>\n<li>What are others doing in relation to player recognition? (Cognitive learning that you are creating for the athlete).<\/li>\n<li>How have others used reflective practice in this period?<\/li>\n<li>What have others found beneficial when it comes to athletic development during this period?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><b> What is going to give us a competitive advantage?<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Competitive challenges throughout lockdown to keep that competitive element present. This has worked well in keeping everybody connected.<\/li>\n<li>Virtual Approach: learning how to do what we do best when we aren\u2019t physically around other members of the organisation. Using this time for lots of coach and staff roundtables aligned to specific topics to bring different staff members together \u2013 usually very challenging in certain sports with the schedule, so the hope is that this will have given better insight into how others are thinking and how they work.<\/li>\n<li>Having the time to actively work around some coach development practice, which will hopefully provide an advantage in the medium to long-term.<\/li>\n<li>Regular access and communication with players across this period. Have a very integrated support team and had regular contact with the athletes. During the season, it can take longer to drive trust and understanding, but having time during lockdown has allowed us to fast-track this.<\/li>\n<li>Culture and staff development with a lot of new coaches who joined at the start of the season to try and catch up with other organisations who have a more settled programme and culture in place.<\/li>\n<li>Training effectiveness. A big opportunity in looking into how we can train more effectively.<\/li>\n<li>This period has been an enforced pause button on programmes, so we\u2019ve asked ourselves, \u2018how well are we doing?\u2019 \u2013 having the opportunity to reflect.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><b>What is working best in relation to keeping people motivated during this time?<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Setting people projects related to the roles that they work in, rather than be overwhelmed with the amount of additional CPD opportunities that aren\u2019t as focused.<\/li>\n<li>Small working groups: giving opportunities for troubleshooting projects across the high performance team by bringing people together who may not liaise with each other on a day-to-day basis to approach challenges of other projects.<\/li>\n<li>Ask strong and challenging questions. What has the lockdown taught you? What have you learnt? Break it down into work and personal \u2013 this proved to be a good exercise to create a bit of direction as motivation and uncertainty has somewhat stalled over the last couple of weeks.<\/li>\n<li><em>Key learnings throughout this period:<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1. Routine prioritising. Can you get three big things done in the day?<\/p>\n<p>2. Learning how other relationships work and how others work and learn, outside of the usual face-to-face contact you have with other staff and players.<\/p>\n<p>3. Little and often seems to be more effective than bigger interactions.<\/p>\n<p>4. Not underestimating the power of questions. Being more creative to get people to open up by using clever and creative questions, as you haven\u2019t got the luxury of analysing body language.<\/p>\n<p>5. Positioning ideas and challenges to the group, and seeing someone take that away and bring it back with something new \u2013 that\u2019s when you know that someone is motivated and driven to make an impact away from their baseline job responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>6. Important to consider how you frame this period, especially with athletes. Have you articulated the purpose? Do they understand what this period is about, especially when there are a lot of uncontrollables?<\/p>\n<p><strong><b> How are we going to ensure that we re-enter into competition in the best possible way?<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Recognition of game areas now. How do we re-engage the goodness that has come out of this period by exploring the stimulus and then accelerate the learning back in the physical environment?<\/li>\n<li>For staff to be consistent from what they have been doing with the players throughout the lockdown away from the physical environment. How can keep that momentum and make sure it doesn\u2019t feel radically different from a support staff perspective?<\/li>\n<li>We need to not overload and put too much expectation on players and staff immediately. There needs to be the right balance of a soft transition, whilst getting down to the work that will get us up to speed ahead of competing.<\/li>\n<li>Not overwhelming the players, so consider stripping back the game-plan to focus on the non-negotiable areas and simple structures to get right.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><b>Five Strategies That Will Enable Adaptive Leadership<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Scenario Planning \u2013 Making sure we consider extremes.<\/p>\n<p>2. Prioritise &amp; Execute<\/p>\n<p>3. Red Teaming \u2013 task people to think like our competition. How would you gain an edge on us?<\/p>\n<p>4. OODA (Observe, Orientate, Decide, Act)<\/p>\n<p>5. Test &amp; Learn \u2013 Fail fast. Experimentation combined with reviews.<\/p>\n<p><strong><b>Group Outcomes<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Continuously taking stock staff and players\u2019 energy. Where is it and how do we adapt it so there isn\u2019t too much information or too little information based on their current needs (consider the OODA loop).<\/li>\n<li>Treat every athlete as a person on re-entry.<\/li>\n<li>Have your staff reflect on what this time has taught them or how it has changed their thinking \/ process.<\/li>\n<li>Different considerations and strategies being used to maintain athlete development.<\/li>\n<li>Capturing the excitement and enthusiasm that a return to training and competition will bring, whilst also being mindful of how that looks when its something that needs to be maintained.<\/li>\n<li>Articulate purpose \u2013 make sure you have said what the point of the task \/ project is.<\/li>\n<li>Reconnecting athletes to the good stuff they were executing and trying to time this for re-entry to competition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Could you and your team be making better use of your performance metrics?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If so, then the latest Leaders Performance Institute Special Report, <em>Analyse This: Managing Your Metrics<\/em>, will be right up your street. It features a variety of sports organisations, from the <strong>San Antonio Spurs<\/strong> and <strong>England Netball<\/strong>, to the <strong>Wests Tigers<\/strong> and <strong>Tennis Australia<\/strong>, via <strong>British Skeleton<\/strong>. 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