Techniques from Sport's Field
Winning Organizations
We can also apply the concepts and techniques from the sport's athletic realm in order to increase the managerial powers of the employees. These can help in a long way in increasing the managerial efficiency and in building the excellent organizations along with tremendous changes in performance level of employees.
It has been proved that both the Olympic athletes and the proficient managers of organizations named as Olympian managers possess the ability of envisioning the results they want to achieve. They realize their results by hard wok and working in concrete form. To increase the performance in the ever-growing competitive
Markets, it is very essential to increase the intelligence at mental level also while working in any domain. It is equally important to increase the skills of individual, so that he can give a better performance in whichever activity he is given. Efforts should be made to increase his extraordinary abilities that will help in realizing goals and in preventing the events that hampers o distracts performance on individual as well as organizational level.
Visioning Results
Every member of winning organization should be made clear in their minds about the expected results in vivid and concrete form. This will help the personnel in organization to work in clear state without any doubts and achieve the desired result within their domains. This will also help members in attaining knowledge about their own needs and about the commitments of organization. They will learn about the connectivity which rest between these two needs also.
It has been proved systematic strategic planning helps a great deal in having a better vision of desiring output .it also tells us about the manpower and materials needed to achieve results at excel power. It provides clarity to the purpose.
Rehearsal/Preparation
Just like rehearse before playing in the main field in order to win in the competition, likewise managers can use this technique. Organizations can help its personnel in this respect by anticipating conditions, events and opportunities and preparing staff in facing them without being beaten down by them. A huge and sound organization very quickly and correctly responds to the ever-changing situations in market.
They also adapt easily and securely. They apply the "what if” concept every time they face problem. They monitor all the aspect and the make a concrete decision which is not only beneficial to the firm but also to it personnel at a large.
Talent, Skills And Abilities
Each and every member of organization strives hard to achieve the result by increasing and adding his skills and talents - just like an athlete. A winning organization always tries to set and keep its climate or environment in such a manner that enhances the talents and abilities, skills of its personnel.
Even if there is provision of providing formal training to the employees for enhancement of their skills and abilities then also these winning organizations have such a large number of wonderful and super talented superiors, which can really help others in attaining and improving old skills and learning new ones. Clients of such organizations also act as a good trainer for new recruited staff. In simple way it can be said that knowledge and skills bears no substitute.
Attention
It is the foremost duty of effective manager to take out the irrelevant stuff and to deal only with main issues. He should only pay importance to what is important for the effective and efficient running of organization. This is exactly like an athlete who looks into only what is relevant leaving behind the irrelevant petty stuff.
Effective structural units should pay very little amount of time discussing tangential issues. Only the unfocussed type of organization spends a large amount of time and energy wrestling with trivial issues, which are of not much consideration. In short it can be said that the unfocused organizations are those organizations that carry out meetings in order to discuss with the employees about the way in which meetings should be held.
The focused and attentive organizations always bears in their mind that the major success of this organization is that they make plans and objectives in accordance with the output, service or the result that is to be achieved. Attainment of desired output forms an important aspect of focused organization. All the discussions made and procedures laid down are meant only for the purpose of achieving results otherwise they are nothing but mere wastage of resources, time and money.
Purpose of Leadership
The major feature that differentiates the leader from an ordinary manager lies in his ability in inspiring its workforce to give a peak performance. They are known for providing such a climate or environment to its workers and for setting a tone that supports them to work more efficiently and effectively, clearing their doubts, enhancing their talents, skills and abilities. All this will definitely help in increasing the output and achieving the goal of organization. At the end it can be concluded that without effective leadership, an organization may perform adequately but will remain unable in excelling its endeavors.