Building a Team that Hits its Targets: HR Archery Lessons

In celebration of the 2012 Summer Olympics, for the next 3 weeks all of our HR blog posts will have a decidedly athletic theme. We hope you enjoy; please comment and share! 

“There’s no more playing games, kids; this is the big time. We’re up against the best of the best, and I don’t just mean from your local neighborhood, either. Or city or country, for that matter. These are the best archers in the world. Your job is to beat them.”

This year, in hundreds of different languages, coaches from across the world will repeat their version of this motivational speech, preparing their teams to hit the target that is Olympic gold.

Of course, for those wise enough to recognize the challenge set before them, the same encouraging words are resounding through the halls of business. We live in the days of a global economy. Whatever product or service your company might offer, there are hundreds of competitors waiting for you from China to India to Europe and the United States. Right now, every one of them is in training, and is targeting your customers with their service. It’s time to step up to the big time.

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Will Im Dong-Hyun and the South Korean men’s archery team win their third straight Olympic gold? Flickr/shizhao

So how does an archery coach prepare the team for success on a world stage? The task is certainly not a small one, and there is much to be learned from taking a look. Strange as it may seem, archery coaches share many similarities with the human resources department in a business. Consider these comparisons:

Finding the Perfect People for the Job

Olympic archery coaches, using their professional insight and a streamlined system of analysis and comparison, begin by scouring the nation for the very best archers, based not only on raw skill but also on the power of potential.

Globally prepared HR departments, using their professional insight and a streamlined system of recruiting analysis and comparison, begin by scouring the nation for the very best employees around, based not only on raw skill but also on the power of potential.

Top-Tier Training

Olympic archery coaches provide their athletes with the very best equipment available—along with a personalized training program for each athlete—designed and continually overseen by those who know how to hit the mark every time.

Globally prepared HR departments provide their employees with the very best resources available—along with a personalized training program for each employee—designed and continually overseen by those who know how to hit the mark every time.

Passionate Intensity Delivered with Compassion

Olympic archery coaches push their athletes to work toward the very limits of their potential, but the best of them do so while recognizing that their athletes are also people who need respect and recognition to achieve peak performance.

Globally prepared HR departments push their employees to work toward the very limits of their potential, but the very best of them do so while recognizing that their employees are also people who need respect and recognition to achieve peak performance.

Superior performance in archery and business may look very different on the surface, but they share the same roots underneath. This is a global world. The international competition that is both the challenge and the joy of the Olympics is just as real at the office as it is on the archery field. It’s time to step up your game, coach.

 

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