The Winning Mindset: What Sport Can Teach Us About Great Leadership - Softcover

A winning mindset is a state of mental fluency and an organizational psychology to get people to deliver their full potential, and sport is the ultimate crucible for examining individuals and teams in pressurized environments.
Drawing on his first-hand experience within sport, organization and change psychology, working with some of the world's top coaches, Professor Damian Hughes distils the ingredients of a successful team to five key elements to create and maintain a winning mindset. These can be applied to any professional or personal environment involving recruiting, developing and nurturing talent or communicating a shared vision across a diverse collection of individuals, handling pressure and staying focused.
The Five Steps that separate the best coaches and teams from the rest are:
S - Simplicity: Keep Your Story Simple
T - Thinking: Provide easy tripwires to trigger positive reactions
E - Emotions: Play on Your Audience's Emotions
P - Practical - Be Practical in how your deliver your message
S - Stories - Harness the Power of Stories to best communicate your message
The Five STEPS to a Winning Mindset is the ultimate handbook to get the best out of yourself and your team. Professor Hughes shows that there is a set of circumstances from which emerges a new way of thinking about working environments that will be useful to leaders in any and every setting as you lead them to deliver on enormous expectations and achieve huge success.

'I would recommend this book, mainly because of its clarity in approach. There are many insights which will offer you some simple, effective and sustainable ideas about how to improve performance in your own world.'
Sir Ian McGeechan