Where would you find these amazing words, one after the other?

Winners, Growers, Adaptable, Motivators, Recovery, Disciplined, Determined, Composure, Communicators and Team Players.

Answer, an image descriptive article setting out the Top 10 Crossover Skills which elite sports athletes can transfer to the world of employment.

I found this 2016 nugget on UK Sport under the Athlete Futures Network, which is an initiative set up by UK Sport to support elite athletes when they decide to move on from this part of their lives.

Such qualities are clearly very desirable in our increasingly disrupted and pressured workplaces. They equally provide a useful personal checklist of target skills for any one of us lesser mortals (than elite athletes!). They could also very easily be used to maintain a personal logbook of real CV stories from your career, where you have amply demonstrated these skills, which will then be very handy preparation notes for a future promotion or new job interview. 

Of course, it would be remiss of me not to mention that not every individual or team can be a winner every day, but the true test of a champion is how to show a "can-do" attitude, following a setback, and become a winner again tomorrow, while being a gracious loser in the meantime.

Work is also and always about team, so when one of us in the office is having a bad day, another is having a good day. The coach may have done a brilliant job in the week (win), but her athlete or team may then do a bad job in the actual race or match (lose). But each needs to dust themselves down and go again. Working each day with co-workers is arguably no different. Each has good days and bad days, but what we want continuously over time within any enterprise are many more aggregate good days, than aggregate bad days. 

In summary, that oft quoted phrase "standing on each other's shoulders" jumps to mind.

Please enjoy the impact of the UK Sport images.