IFM Executive · Companies and leaders
What elite sport teaches us when reality becomes more complex than planned.
Decision ///// Complexity ///// Performance
Talks and workshops for leaders and managers, drawing on twenty years of decisions made at the heart of professional and international football.
- Noise>
- Signal>
- Decision>
- Action
The content
Five perspectives on decision-making
Noise
Deciding when everyone is talking
In a stadium as in a company, decisions are never made in silence.
Pressure, information, opinions, urgency, emotion: how do you tell what must be heard from what must be filtered out?
Being ready is not being able
When demands exceed capabilities
Being competent does not necessarily mean being ready.
A new situation, a crisis or an added responsibility can radically change what an individual or an organisation is required to deliver.
When the decision changes ground
What worked yesterday does not always work elsewhere
The same method can produce different results when the context changes.
Cultures, teams, resources, responsibilities, constraints: should the decision change when the ground changes?
The decision nobody wants to make
Responsibility, uncertainty and trade-offs
Some decisions offer no good solution. They demand a choice.
Wait, act, take a risk, let go: how do you decide when uncertainty will not go away?
When the system talks too much
Too much information, too many people, not enough decision
An organisation can have more data, more experts and more tools… and still decide less well.
At what point does information stop helping the decision and start getting in its way?
From elite performance to business
- Clubs
- National teams
- International competitions
- Multicultural environments
- Decisions under constraint
The aim is not to transpose sport to business.It is to use what sport reveals about people, systems and decisions when the pressure rises.
Formats
Three ways to take part
- TalksAn insight session for a seminar, a convention or an executive committee.
- KeynotesA short, memorable address to open or punctuate an event.
- WorkshopsA session with a leadership or management team, built on real situations.
Every session is designed with you, around your audience, your challenges and the format of your event.
The speaker
Manuel Afonso, MD
Sports Medicine & High Performance
A sports physician for more than twenty years, he has led medical departments in professional clubs and national teams, from Ligue 2 to the World Cup. He has experienced decision-making under pressure from the inside: on the bench, in the dressing room, facing the board.
Read his backgroundA seminar, a convention, an executive committee?
Let's talk about your event and what you want your teams to take away.