{"id":2420,"date":"2020-06-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/vlogs\/toni-cumpston-hockey-australia\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T05:20:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T05:20:03","slug":"toni-cumpston-hockey-australia","status":"publish","type":"vlog","link":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/videos\/toni-cumpston-hockey-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking Steps to Insulate a Sports Organisation When External Factors Strike"},"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-1183567456.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                                Jun 17, 2020                            <\/p>\n                        \t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/videos\" 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>Videos<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"hero__title\">Taking Steps to Insulate a Sports Organisation When External Factors Strike<\/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; 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even if no one could have predicted a pandemic.<\/p>\n                            \n                                                                <div class=\"video video__inline\">\n                                        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/412425325\/8b9f25ec68\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n                                    <\/div>\n                            \n                            \n                                                            <div class=\"es-section__text content-area\">\n                                    <p><h4>When Toni Cumpston spoke the Leaders Performance Institute about Hockey Australia&#8217;s critical incident plans, the pandemic had yet to strike.<\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Reflecting on that conversation at the 2019 Leaders Sport Performance Summit in London, where Cumpston <a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance\/summit-session-the-reviewing-planning-process-behind-olympic-cycles\/\">spoke in her capacity as High Performance Director at Hockey Australia<\/a>, fills us with confidence that the organisation&#8217;s players and coaches will be well-placed to emerge from sport&#8217;s hiatus in a promising position.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lots of things can happen and you do have to be nimble,&#8221; she explained. &#8220;What enables you to do that is actually having processes in place; having good structures and people; and people having clarity around their role.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As Cumpston explains here &#8211; and even with the Games back on track for the northern hemisphere summer of 2021 &#8211; there are numerous risks to be mitigated as Australia, one of the typical powerhouses of field hockey, seek to compete once again for gold medals after an indifferent Olympics in Rio in 2016.<\/p>\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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