Marc Lammers

It’s not just about scoring goals, but also about the road to get there. How do I motivate my people 5% more than the competitor? How do I make the difference by being one step ahead of them every time?

Just like in top sport, self-awareness of team members is crucial: everyone excels at something. Make individual strengths and weaknesses transparent, empower individuals and benefit as a team. Groups with the greatest diversity are the strongest.

Coaching today is a broad concept: modern techniques are applied and psychologists are called in to achieve progress. It involves a people-oriented approach in which team members are inspired rather than instructed.

Marc Lammers facilitated his team to independently figure out how to fight the competitor. This was not a loss of his coaching role, on the contrary. In his presentation he discusses the great benefits of this. How do I find and use (individual) qualities?

Standing still is going backwards. Keep developing and innovating to stay ahead of the competitor.

Innovation in sport
Standing still is going backwards. Keep developing and innovating to stay ahead of the competitor.

Coaching is something you do together
Marc’s coaching vision revolves around inspiration, situational leadership and competence management. How do I create a performance climate?

Boundary-breaking teambuilding
Working together towards a goal only works if there is a willingness to push boundaries. Marc proved this (among other things) with the golden field hockey ladies: a very diverse group of 18 players and 8 coaches functioned as one.

Other presentation themes around the modern coach could be: ambition, communication, goals, leadership and looking for details.

As former national coach of the golden field hockey ladies, Marc Lammers draws parallels between top sport and business: how do I distinguish myself (in difficult times)?

The conditions during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing were intense: heat, smog and humidity levels above 90%. According to many a crisis: how on earth can you perform in this ridiculous sports climate?

Marc thought differently, Marc saw opportunities. It was precisely under these extreme conditions that his team was able to distinguish itself: by using (among other things) ice baths, cooling vests, oxygen masks and infusions, Marc Lammers turned the crisis into an opportunity.

His field hockey ladies recovered faster and were therefore considerably fitter than their competition in Beijng. In the final they defeated host China resulting in Olympic Gold.

If you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always had. Why wait for better times when you can create them yourself?

Often feedback gets bogged down in unhelpful criticism or endless discussions about things that have long since lost their influence. Feed forward looks at the possibilities based on the key question: What can be improved tomorrow?

Every organization is different; colleagues, customers, suppliers, association or board. Each team member has a personal goal, but certainly also a common ambition. Together we look for the qualities of the team and look for the opportunities that will ensure that we stay one step ahead of the competition.