You can find thousands of tips and rules for how to become a better golfer, and just as many for how to become a better manager. Most of them seem to make perfect sense.
Problems start when you try to keep all those rules in your head at the same time – in other words, “paralysis by analysis”. In management, as in golf, the greats make it all look effortless, which only adds to the sense of mystery and frustration for those who struggle to get better.
So, pick one thing at a time and get better at that. Practice until it gets to be an unconscious competence, until it becomes as easy as tying your shoelaces.
What will you commit to practice this week?
How will you practice it?
What difference will you see, hear or feel when you get better at it?
If you are in L&D, how can you use this idea in your management training programmes?
