Sheena Walker: How businesses can learn gold medal-winning ways

Training tips for corporate athletes

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In a summer of sporting fixtures, headlined by Rio 2016, businesses would do well to take a closer look at the people standing on the winners' podium over the coming weeks and months, writes Sheena Walker.

They could learn from these top achievers and transfer the techniques used by our brightest sport stars to their own staff to create a winning team. There are some very simple strategies to help businesses bring out the best from their teams and these can be identified by taking some pointers from professional sportsmen and women. It starts with the mind-set to perform. Our top sport people understand how to optimise their skills and the need to strive to be the best. We can take the same principles and apply them to the workplace to create corporate athletes who achieve again and again....

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