An Olympic trial is the practice holy grail of pre-Olympic engagement.
Managing mindset to break the cycle of oversensitive decision-making is required.
What did the NAAA 2016 trajectory track& field championships tell us?
It violated the basic principles of mindset management. The Mindset process involves three basic principles.(Lorri Freifeld)
1. customer-focused,
2. Innovation
3. Collaboration,
This is not happening! Therefore, the Holy Grail concept now becomes the most appropriate and necessary solution to mindset development of track& field in T&T.
The aforementioned concepts, its meaning and application remain largely misunderstood by both the TTOC and the NAAA. They exhibit personal agenda motivations. Photo ops and Trips!
The verbal the operational management mindset…? We do not need help! Forget about meet analysis, worldwide implications or outside interference, this is not the first time we doing this. No one ever complained before! This behavior either consciously or unconsciously is shaping the way management thinks and acts.
The NAAA track& field championships has been conducted as a regurgitate process over decades of existence with no apparent improvement. This must be investigated by personnel.
Ten years ago, the term mindset was predominantly used in the mysterious realm of spiritual expansion. Today’s leaders are using this concept as a universally engaged protocol: however. This practice precedes the TTOC/NAAA thinking agenda.
An Olympic trial is the practice Holy Grail of pre- Olympic engagement. This is an assured performance based selection process that must be instituted by the TTOC/NAAA.
It promotes the best interest of the athlete, and not the preconceived bias promotion of compromising selectors.
Pre- meet prep:
Order of events
Meet officials and their duties
Competitors and competition
Running events
Conversations on rules revisions
The timing at games 2016 was less aggressive than previous years.Under observation though was the enormity of athletes meeting the compromise of qualifying Olympic standards! Now quota athletes compromise obligations.
These signals are indicative of the apparent lack of quality preparation for Olympic podium activity.
Red flags:
The athletic age factor.
Exiting champions. With no apparent replacement
*400 meters champion Rennie Quow relegated to 5th place
*100meters champion Keston Bledman from 1st place to 3rd place
*100 meters Kelly-Ann Baptiste from 1st place to 3rd place
*200 meters Richard Thompson from 1st place to 2nd place
400meters hurdle Jehue Gordon from 47 point to 52 point
*the current 4x 400 meters relay team ran 3:10 .42
*the current 4x100 meters relay team ran 40:00 secs.
The excuse here is that the top runners did not compete. Think about what you do before you act. The officials selected these teams.
The gunners could not repeat, a prelude to RIO ? Or that does not matter! Why do you have relays in a national championship? Look at the broader picture of this embarrassment.
What do officials think at critical moments? We do not know. We can only speculate about what actually took place at that moment in time.
How mindset affects our actions: Mindset is the underlying beliefs and assumptions we bring to a situation, conscious or unconscious. it is our inner dialogue reflecting our view of reality, and it shapes how we interpret situations, how we act.
When you enter a discourse with a creative mindset you advance and build on the conversation at hand. Approach with a critical mindset, believe your “value-added” is to point out flaws and missing elements. Creative and critical mindsets are essential in business, but when people’s mindsets are inconsistent with the needs and goals of the situation, problems occur—often in the form of unproductive or counterproductive action.
Questions:
Can you identify any medal winners’ team or individual from the performances?
Do our expectations exceed our resources?
Are you comfortable with the 10/24 concept?
How do the performances impact the 10/24 vision?
Is 10/24 a realistic view of our performance index?
Things to consider:
400 meters Lashawn Merrit, kirani James, Van Niekerk ,Makwala
200 meters-Jamaica, USA, Canada, Panama, Republic of South Africa
100meters-Jamaica, USA, Canada, France
4x400 relay USA, Jamaica, Great Britain
4x100 –Jamaica, USA, Canada
Javelin –USA, Germany, Egypt, Kenya, Czech Republic,
Females:
4x100-USA, Jamaica, Russia
100meters- USA, Jamaica, Nederland, Ivory Coast, Nigeria
200meters-USA, Jamaica Nederland, Great Britain
Prognosis: think, keep your emotions unbroken, blood and tears!
The NAAA championships represent the end product or at least the first major hurdle on the road to selection. If the NAAA continues to have this restricted view as the fait accompli of its existence then we cannot hold out much hope for recognizable improvement in the track and field arena.
These annual championships should be seen as opportunities for critical, continuous assessment.
They should be the catalyst for regular soul-searching in the quest for excellence.
We seem to have no depth in our talent pool. It is evident that there is a serious dearth of talent; the talent (or at least the potential) which is needed if we are to foster and promote continuity of world class performance.
Critical analyses of these championships should help fashion the policies going forward, impacting on all basic inputs: physical infrastructure- existing and future; tools of the trade-track and field equipment; discovering and unearthing talent and potential and creating avenues for development; continuous development of expert and professional personnel to officiate at meets.
Not organizing championships because we are accustomed having them Here they should be dealing with an Olympic trial, the Holy Grail for the staminal equine Olympic athlete.
Dr.Cliff Bertrand
Olympian
