Improve the success of your business by improving your working environment

Are you aware of the effect that the habits triggered by our working environments have on us, our people and ultimately our businesses?

How much better would your business be if you could create the best environment and structure to trigger the best results from all your people?

I’m sure within your team you have highly motivated, enthusiastic people…however it may be that even they need help finding the discipline and the structure to get things done!

Let’s look to the very best world-class sports coaches to see how important the working environment is…

Dave Brailsford, General Manager of Team INEOS (formally Team Sky) believes that the working environment is paramount to the success of his cycling team.

He calls them ‘marginal gains’ – the small things that, although the team are on the move all the time, keep the environment around them the same and one of success.

Brailsford states:

“Take beds for example, different beds every night, with different mattresses and pillows affect performance, especially if the rider does not sleep well, so the solution was to create our own bedding for each cyclist and take it everywhere with us, so Chris Froome has the right mattress structure which is right for his spine, and he sleeps on it every night”

The environment Brailsford and his team create helps determine the world-beating results they achieve – it’s why they have won 7 of the 8 tours up to 2019.