According to UK sport, our recent haul of medals in Beijing is down to more than just great athletes, it’s down to a streamlined 5 step process: A simple step by step guide by Daisy Waugh, head of UK sport, explains how to find and develop gold medal athletes.
Step 1: Find it
Look at your talent pool and consider transfers from other sports, don’t limit on where you look.
Step 2: Confirmation
Determine whether the athlete has real potential. Put them in an environment which is as close as possible to the elite level and try to validate that they have got it.
Step 3: Selection
Have conviction in separating the wheat from the chaff
Stap 4: Development of excellence
Develop talent in the right way, You have to know what you are going to do with it once you’ve found it.
Step 5: Maintenance
The talent search has to be unrelenting.
How could we apply this process to other areas of public life?
In what areas could you see this working? brain surgery? social work? teaching?