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#5 Bobsleigh Olympic Medalist on Performance, Managing and Career Change
Meet Eric Alard, bobsleigh olympic medalist, and coach of the Swiss bobsleigh team who won the olympics under his management.
Today, Eric is a Keynote Speaker, coach, director of 2 business schools and he tells us how he perceives performance, how he switched from being an athlete to being a coach and how he changed career!
Discover my website here: https://butzi-speaker.com
Here is the time reference:
In this podcast, we have the pleasure to interview Eric Alard, a bobsleigh champion and coach of the swiss team for the Olympics. Eric shares with us his experience of the competitive world of sports before switching his career to working as a manager and a professor in a business school. He gives us his best tips to succeed as an entrepreneur and to build a good cohesive team.
00:00 Intro
Eric
00:09 Eric, an athlete and a coach
01:51 The difference between both careers.
02:50 Helping people achieve their dream
03:29 The performance mode as an athlete
05:35 “Certain losses are more acceptable than stolen victories.”
Life as a coach
07:55 “Where can I go?” goals and achievement
10:13 Communicating with people involved in your goals
12:32 Life as a coach: helping others and having a vision for the team
15:04 The limits people put themselves
17:20 Eric’s father’s influence
19:06 Most important qualities as a coach
Eric’s tips
22:19 Eric’s tips on team spirit
26:26 How to embody and share the same values as a team
30:45 The tipping point: from coaching to working in companies
Career shifts and changes
34:09 Obstacles in the transition: from one job to another
35:45 Adaptation: controlling chaos as a manager
37:01 The next career change: Business schools
Work-life balance
38:23 Sleep and family
Setting goals and taking action
41:08 “Perform 90”
43:56 “There is no one way to have success.”
45:01 “There’s no magic formula.”
46:39 “Be satisfied with what you have and forget your dreams.”
47:28 “The high-performance world.”
48:46 Changing dreams into goals: taking action
49:46 “When you will be really angry, you will start to move.”
52:08 Set goals for motivation
54:59 “Done is better than perfect.”
56:19 Perfection vs enough
57:23 Eric’s main obstacle
Conclusion
58:33 What’s next?
1:00:13 Conclusion
Follow him on:
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericalard
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alard.eric
More at https://ericalard.fr
He performance program: https://ericalard.fr/Perform_90/m-P90
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By The Crazytivity PodcastMeet Eric Alard, bobsleigh olympic medalist, and coach of the Swiss bobsleigh team who won the olympics under his management.
Today, Eric is a Keynote Speaker, coach, director of 2 business schools and he tells us how he perceives performance, how he switched from being an athlete to being a coach and how he changed career!
Discover my website here: https://butzi-speaker.com
Here is the time reference:
In this podcast, we have the pleasure to interview Eric Alard, a bobsleigh champion and coach of the swiss team for the Olympics. Eric shares with us his experience of the competitive world of sports before switching his career to working as a manager and a professor in a business school. He gives us his best tips to succeed as an entrepreneur and to build a good cohesive team.
00:00 Intro
Eric
00:09 Eric, an athlete and a coach
01:51 The difference between both careers.
02:50 Helping people achieve their dream
03:29 The performance mode as an athlete
05:35 “Certain losses are more acceptable than stolen victories.”
Life as a coach
07:55 “Where can I go?” goals and achievement
10:13 Communicating with people involved in your goals
12:32 Life as a coach: helping others and having a vision for the team
15:04 The limits people put themselves
17:20 Eric’s father’s influence
19:06 Most important qualities as a coach
Eric’s tips
22:19 Eric’s tips on team spirit
26:26 How to embody and share the same values as a team
30:45 The tipping point: from coaching to working in companies
Career shifts and changes
34:09 Obstacles in the transition: from one job to another
35:45 Adaptation: controlling chaos as a manager
37:01 The next career change: Business schools
Work-life balance
38:23 Sleep and family
Setting goals and taking action
41:08 “Perform 90”
43:56 “There is no one way to have success.”
45:01 “There’s no magic formula.”
46:39 “Be satisfied with what you have and forget your dreams.”
47:28 “The high-performance world.”
48:46 Changing dreams into goals: taking action
49:46 “When you will be really angry, you will start to move.”
52:08 Set goals for motivation
54:59 “Done is better than perfect.”
56:19 Perfection vs enough
57:23 Eric’s main obstacle
Conclusion
58:33 What’s next?
1:00:13 Conclusion
Follow him on:
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericalard
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alard.eric
More at https://ericalard.fr
He performance program: https://ericalard.fr/Perform_90/m-P90