Related: What Athletics Can Teach About the Characteristics of Great Leaders Aside from the economic benefit, girls who play sports do better in school, suffer fewer health problems, achieve more in areas traditionally dominated by men and hold better jobs as adults.
It's no coincidence that companies with the best record of promoting women to high positions (Roy Adler, HBR, 2001) do better 8 percent to 69 percent better actually. Supporting women who want to challenge the status quo, fuels their growth, and builds community. It helps identify opportunities to improve through the advice of seasoned coaches, and increase national and regional visibility for themselves and their businesses among key stakeholders and the media.
And much like sports it can provide access to informal, one-to-one guidance and support. This network has been shown to expand these women's knowledge about business strategies and practices identify potential partners, strategic alliances, customers and suppliers, as well as prospective sources of private capital. For female entrepreneurs wanting to scale, the EY entrepreneurial Winning Women program, (sponsored by EY's Kerrie McPherson), where women see an average annual growth of 54 percent after joining, is a program that builds confidence and success. Sports lay the groundwork and can become a force multiplier. Seek out networks that support your goals. champion, and winner of the all around gold at this Rio Olympics (from Spring, Texas) said over and over this Olympics: "Confidence is something you create within yourself by believing who you are." It became her favorite quote these games.ģ. Simone Biles, the powerhouse 19 year old gymnast, 14 time world medal winner, four-time U.S. Related: 7 Lessons Entrepreneurs Can Learn from Peyton Manning He said: "From this discipline, comes confidence in knowing that I'll do my best, despite the distractions that will come my way." I personally watched Michael Phelps this Olympics as he mentally ran through his routine to win the gold, and listened to him share (at EY 2015 Strategic Growth Forum in Palm Springs) how much mental preparation goes into winning. Research shows that when the mind practices a run, the athlete's performance improves. The more you desire it, the more you'll take the personal initiative to achieve it. In other words - if you want to be a good leader, or a good athlete, or a good businessperson, you must practice, practice, practice. No one can do it for you," said former Nigerian born Olympian soccer player for Canada, Charmaine Combs, as we sat together at the Germany vs.
"You can only be as great as what you commit. "Confidence comes with mastery, and the combination enables me to reach new heights," said Pauline Brown, former athlete, luxury brand builder, and now senior business lecturer at Harvard. It's one of the main reasons that 9 4 percent of all female C-suite execs played college sports. From this, teams are strengthened and energized. Athletes and entrepreneurs develop an inner resilience that somehow, they instinctively know that they'll always find a way to show up strong, even when others are in disbelief, or far better equipped. Confidence comes from years of personal sacrifice to get to the top of your game. It's been said that "Practice makes perfect." When we're talking about world-class athletes or entrepreneurs, we're talking about decades of good habits, practiced consistently. each day, doing what no one else has the disciplinary self-motivation to do. Having a benchmark against which to internally self-measure themselves by enabled these winners to develop "good habits." The kind of habits that get you up at 4 a.m.
0 kommentar(er)
