Chris Spice13 September 2014

Scottish Swimming Conference

Who are we now

Glasgow 2014 – Olympic Events

Glasgow 2014 – Olympic Events

Benchmark meet Season’s Best comparisons

The Moment of Truth

• Stepping up in the Arena – building a mental script• Attitude is your choice and your responsibility• The Champion’s Choice: Go on or give in? Fighter or victim?• The Arena is complex and challenging for all athletes:

– Champions deal with it– Losers react to it (OMG!)

• Percentage of team that swam a Season’s Best - 47.6% • Percentage of team that swam a Personal Best - 38.1%

Gold Silver Bronze Total

1 Great Britain 6 6 5 17

2 Denmark 6 0 1 7

3 Hungary 5 3 5 13

4 France 3 3 1 7

5 Italy 3 1 7 11

6 Sweden 2 5 1 8

7 Spain 2 3 2 7

8 Germany 2 3 1 6

9 Poland 2 1 1 4

10 Serbia 2 0 0 2

11 Netherlands 0 3 1 4

12 Russia 0 2 1 3

Berlin 2014 – ELC

Stand out summer…2014 Personal Bests CWG AND Euro’s

Adam Peaty – 100 Breaststroke

Ross Murdoch – 100 Breaststroke

Jaz Carlin – 800 Freestyle

Adam Barrett – 100 Butterfly

Jay Lelliott – 1500 Freestyle

Stephen Milne – 1500 Freestyle

Welcome to the new normal…

Critical success factors 2015+

1. Focus on process of racing (not outcomes: time, medal etc)2. Racing and learning (practice race routines, different tactics)3. Coaching our coaches (world class modelling/behaviours)4. Innovation (warm-up, tapering, mental rehearsal)5. Identifying and developing potential (calculated risk taking)6. Technical priorities (focused windows, syllabus)7. Performance Planning (racing models, critical evaluation)8. Building our performance culture

PERFORMANCE PLAN

ATHLETE NAME HERE

PERFORMANCE PLAN

ATHLETE NAME HERE

WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO WIN

NEEDS & PRIORITIES

PLANNING PROCESS

EXECUTE, MONITOR & REVIEW

PERFORMANCE PLAN

WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO WIN?

CURRENT RACE MODEL

PROJECTED TIME TO MEDAL IN RIO 2016

PLANNED RACE MODEL

PERFORMANCE PLAN

NEEDS & PRIORITIES

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PERFORMANCE PLAN

PLANNING PROCESS

PLANNING OUTPUT ACTIONS

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PERFORMANCE PLAN

EXECUTE, MONITOR & REVIEW

Culture matters…

Central to all that we do in high performance sport

Nothing without strategic vision

Dynamic process - individual, cross/intra-programme

Define your non-negotiables and enforce them ruthlessly

Leadership to back it up – build ‘social capital’

Live it and breath it – ‘character in action’

Innovate or be overtaken…

“Most people with my kind of track record don't look to change. But I always felt I couldn't afford not to change. We had to be successful - there was no other option for me and I would explore any means of improving….”

Alex Ferguson – Harvard Business Review, 2013