Sydney Swans Executive Director of Club Performance John Longmire says the principal philosophy behind high-performing sports teams can also be applied to business.
Longmire, alongside Sydney Swans COO Drew Arthurson, will share what sustained high performance looks like in elite environments and how it translates to business teams, at the Sydney Swans Institute Gather Round Leadership Summit in Adelaide.
The former coach said the key to sustaining high performance was unlocking potential.
"I think it's about trying to maximise people's potential, it doesn't matter whether you're a player, whether you're a staff member in a football department, whether you're working in business, whatever you're doing, it's trying to maximise people's potential," Longmire said.
"We're talking about sustaining high performance and culture over a long period of time, understanding the ups and downs that go with that, the day-to-day challenges in that.
"But how it's important to come up and talk about strategies that we've used here internally both on and off the field. So both through the football department but also through the business itself that we've been able to implement. That's allowed us to over a long time hopefully maintain some consistency and not have too many dips in performance over a long period of time."
Longmire, who stepped down as senior coach after 14 seasons having guided the Swans to a premiership and five grand final appearances, said he was enjoying his role as Executive Director of Club Performance and his work with the Sydney Swans Institute.
"It's a different form of what I've been doing for a long time, which is coaching, it's doing it for a different audience," Longmire said.
"I've always loved trying to develop people and helping people grow, I've seen 18-year-olds come through as young kids that enter our program, straight out of high school and often from interstate and then having a role in their lives and seeing them grow and develop.
"Not only on the field and seeing their football develop but seeing them grow as people, end up having partners, kids and retire at 35, 36 years of age, it's one of the great privileges I've been able to have.
"To be able to channel that passion that I've done for a long time into a similar but different area, I've been fortunate to be able to do that and really learn from my experiences, been able to reflect on those and things that worked and things that didn't."
Longmire said the Gather Round Leadership Summit was a unique chance to learn from elite leaders across a range of industries.
"It's an opportunity to come along and hear from those that have been at the coalface for a long time of the most scrutinised sport in the country," Longmire said.
"Hear how things have worked, things haven't worked, listen to the stories, go away with strategies that they can implement in their own business.
"Hear from people like Adam Goodes who has been able to ride an extraordinary wave of success both as a player, a businessman but also a person, it's the same thing, to be able to hear a diverse background of people in our industry that can help a business grow and thrive."
Sydney Swans Institute Leadership Summit
Read more about who else will be speaking here.
Date: Thursday, 9th April
Time: 12:00 pm to 6 pm
Venue: The Playford Hotel
