Category Archives: Human Performance Improvement (HPI)
You as a leader…
A friend of mine sent me the following email: “For a school assignment this week, I am supposed to ask 5 leaders in my community the questions below. I’m hoping … Continue reading
What A Training Organization Can Be Made Of
Team in Training calls what they do “training.” Yet, in the parlance of Human Performance Improvement, they do so much more than train.
You Never Forget Your First Time
This past weekend was my wife’s fourth running of the Nike Women’s Marathon. Her first marathon was the inaugural event. Since then she’s run that course all but twice.
Why? Well, because like Team in Training, Nike does a few things right to incentivize the runners.
A Story for a Reluctant Marathoner
Team in Training(TNT) is a fundraising arm of the Leukemia and Lymphoma society, which is devoted to finding a cure for lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families. TNT began in 1988, when its founder, Bruce Cleland, formed a team that raised funds and trained to run the New York City Marathon in honor of his daughter, a leukemia survivor.
In that story lies the seeds of how an organization can get a person who doesn’t like running to complete her first marathon.
Marathons — The Ultimate in Human Performance Improvement
Sports analogies and training go hand in hand, likely because it is readily understood that for one to succeed in an athletic event, one must train for it. Take a look a little deeper, though. As one prepares for an athletic event such as a marathon, one doesn’t just engage in training. Rather, one goes through several human performance interventions.
