Bike Coaches Shorts

Here is one of my passions: triathlons.

It began for me in 1995, an agreement for a short race with a friend, but has since transformed into a process of deliberate and targeted training to compete successfully in these track events that combine swimming, cycling and walk.

Leadership is another of my passions and I found many parallels between physical abilities and stamina to compete in a multi-sport competition, and emotional and behavioral skills necessary to succeed as a leader. Neither the management nor the athletic success comes overnight. It can not be rushed or done by reading a book or attend a seminar.

As a coach, I help professionals refine their approach to setting goals, planning, commitment, experience and support, like my triathlon coach encourages me to focus on themselves. The awards are also similar: a gradual improvement yet measurable and continuous development of new skills and areas of excellence.

Some specific areas where I found my passions converge:

Goal Setting

After several seasons of training rather random, shopping, I decided to become more focused and intentional in my training and racing and began to set goals for each season. These varied objectives, focusing on the number of breeds, types of racing, competition schedules, and more recently from injuries.

But my goals are always specific in nature, a strategy that I often recommend to clients who want to become more effective leaders. Targets have the power to mobilize and focus efforts. Instead of an overall objective to communicate more effectively with colleagues, you are more likely to achieve the desired result if you set out "to build more effective working relationships with John and Mary at the end of the third quarter. "

Planning

I could never achieve my goals without planning triathlon. My work with a coach triathlon involves the establishment of detailed training plans that describe each workout in terms of discipline, the duration and intensity. They are on target as well: when I was working on improving my running time, I spent more time implementing sprints and hills, when I started back in the race after my son, I have long, slow distance work to rebuild my endurance.

Planning your development as a leader, he must determine where you can focus your energy, how you will prioritize time, and what activities you will engage in. Planning shows you are serious about achieving the objectives as the resolution of "schedule of regular meetings on Monday, with John and Marie discuss both professional and personal topics. "

Commitment

Making a commitment is to maintain a global perspective. I am ready to make compromises every day come back in a pool of cold water at 5:00, or biking before my children wake up, to achieve my goals and to participate in a sport that I love. My commitment to larger image helps me to say no to other things, like sleep!

Leadership development requires sticking to important activities, sometimes to the detriment of other things. If you agree that 1:01 to visit with a colleague at work is a priority, then you let the phone calls that interrupt this time. If a meeting gets in the way of work provided important, it may require rescheduling or have someone in your place.

Experience

Sometimes there is no way to replace experience. When biking through the mountains of Colorado Flatiron earlier this year, I lived for the first time the challenge down a mountain. Taking hairpin turns at 45-50 mph was a frightening experience, where the error would have resulted in serious injury. In other words, there was no way to plan how my body would experience constant braking.