Negar RiazatiChief Executive Officer (CEO) Australia & Asia Region at Performia Australia

Build a Winning Business Team - The Power of Camaraderie and Productivity

12 Jun 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief presentation, the speaker argues that a business should operate like a sports team. He highlights that people are drawn to sports for the camaraderie, the hard training, the thrill of winning, and even the shared disappointment of losing. Translating that experience to a workplace makes the business more fun, safe, and productive. The speaker suggests that managers should shift from a traditional supervisory role to that of a coach and mentor, guiding a team of motivated individuals who are eager to play the "game" of the business. This coaching mindset, combined with a culture of teamwork and shared purpose, is presented as the core of high performance.

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Your business should be like a sports team. Most people turn up and play sport because for them, they just love the feeling of camaraderie, training hard, winning and celebrating those winnings with their friends, and also losing and feeling that heartache of losing. And that's what it— you know, when your business can run that way, it makes the business fun. It makes it safe. It makes it productive. It means that instead of being a manager, you're more the the coach and the mentor, and you've got a bunch of people running around and they really want to play the game that you're coaching them on. And that's really what performing is about.