Nick Ruddock Olympian Gymnastics Coach – Applying World-class Athletics Training to Create and Run a Thriving Business
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Show Notes
In this episode, Jeannette speaks to Nick Ruddock who turned his passion for gymnastics into a full-time career. He has been coaching for 17 years, has coached for Team GB and Olympians, and today is a gymnastics consultant who runs his own successful business.
Nick and Jeannette talk about how the approach athletes employ to excel can be used to take any business to the top. They discuss effective goal setting, mindset, managing failure, creating winning teams and bouncing back from adversity.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Always lead with passion.
- If you get the chance to merge your passion with your work, do so.
- There are many commonalities between running a business and being a successful world-class athlete.
- Athletes and business owners need to set firm goals, measure their performance, then adjust their approach.
- You have to target your efforts. It's not enough to be busy. What you are doing has to move things forwards.
- Often, it is the small things that lead to the biggest gains. An athlete improving by just 1% can be enough for them to win.
- There are always opportunities, but you must prioritise wisely.
- Mindset is critical.
- Everyone is going to fail at some point. Failure is feedback, it is a normal part of the learning process.
- Over-confidence leads to complacency.
- Invest in educating yourself at all stages of your life and business journey.
- Being able to take sticky topics and simplify them enough so people can understand is a valuable skill.
- Stay true to your values. If you don´t you will lose passion and momentum.
- Being self-aware will help you to perform better whatever you want to do.
- Hold up a mirror to yourself. Be uncomfortable, then address your issues, and leverage those lessons.
- Be compassionate with yourself when you make mistakes. Address them but don´t beat yourself up about it.
- Trust your instincts. If something does not feel right park it or maybe, ask someone for a 2nd opinion.
BEST MOMENTS
‘There's a lot of takeaways from the world of sports that can be translated into the world of business or in life in general’
‘Always lead with passion´
‘There's a real difference between being busy and actually being productive and making your business move forwards’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
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ABOUT THE HOST
Jeannette Linfoot is a highly regarded senior executive, property investor, board advisor, and business mentor with over 25 years of global professional business experience across the travel, leisure, hospitality, and property sectors. Having bought, ran, and sold businesses all over the world, Jeannette now has a portfolio of her own businesses and also advises and mentors other business leaders to drive forward their strategies as well as their own personal development.
Jeannette is a down to earth leader, a passionate champion for diversity & inclusion, and a huge advocate of nurturing talent so every person can unleash their full potential and live their dreams.
CONTACT METHOD
https://www.jeannettelinfootassociates.com/
ABOUT THE GUEST
Since the age of 15, Nick has dedicated his life to coaching gymnastics, performing numerous roles including personal and national coaching responsibilities with Team GB, and GBR’s Amy Tinkler; World, European and Olympic Medallist.
Since 2015, through his company 'Nick Ruddock Gymnastics', Nick has consulted and provided advice and services to 22 international gymnastics federations, including the National Governing Bodies and National Teams of Japan, Germany, Brazil, France, Romania and Netherlands. He has also lectured and provided technical support and education services to European Gymnastics for almost a decade.
Now recognised as a world leading coach educator within the international gymnastics community, Nick has educated tens of thousands of coaches worldwide throughout his live events, online and offline coaching programmes, courses and podcast.
Nick's exposure to a wide range of clubs, coaches and systems across many countries and continents offers him a unique perspective on the sport, helping him on his mission to soften the learning curve for gymnastics coaches, irrespective of their location, experience and budget, alongside his efforts to improve the experience that both athlete and coach have within the sport.
In 2019 Nick was nominated for the highly prestigious UK Coaching 'Coach Developer of the Year’ awards, finishing in the top three from over 320 nominations.
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PODCAST DESCRIPTION
Jeannette Linfoot talks to incredible people about their experiences of being Brave, Bold & Brilliant, which have allowed them to unleash their full potential in business, their careers, and life in general. From the boardroom tables of ‘big’ international business to the dining room tables of entrepreneurial start-ups, how to overcome challenges, embrace opportunities and take risks, whilst staying ‘true’ to yourself is the order of the d