Many workplaces are dominated by short term thinking, intense pressure to produce immediate results and a focus on growth at all costs.  Sound familiar?  This short term focus often leads to poor decision making, poor long term performance and risks employee burnout.  

In today’s episode my guest Cath Bishop makes a powerful case for implementing what she calls Long Win Thinking.  Cath knows a bit about winning as a three time Olympian with a silver medal and a fascinating career in diplomacy within conflict zones! 

We discuss: 

• Why workplaces benefit from focusing on the Long Win 

• How Cath’s mindset around winning shifted across her 3 Olympic Games and how she felt at the start line of her medal-winning Olympic race  

• What insights Cath has taken from her diplomatic experience into leadership coaching 

• How early in life we start thinking winning is important 

• Separating performance from results and winning 

• Cath’s 3 C model for implementing long win thinking in your team 

I found this episode really timely as I reflect on the impact I want to make through my work and what success means to me.  I hope it brings you some insights both personally and also as you think about how to create high performance in your team. 

My name’s Carla Miller, leadership coach, author, trainer and founder of Women Leading, the community that helps women lead without overwhelm.  I’m on a mission to empower women leaders in the workplace and make leading less lonely.   

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About Cath Bishop: 

Cath Bishop is a triple Olympian, World Champion and Olympic silver medallist in rowing. In her career as a diplomat, she specialized in stabilization policy for conflict-affected parts of the world. She now works as a coach and consultant, advising on leadership, performance and culture across business, sport and education, and teaches on Executive Education programmes at the Judge Business School, Cambridge University. She writes monthly articles for The Guardian on topics of culture in sport and co-hosts The Inside Out Culture 

Podcast. She is a globally sought-after speaker. 

Websites: www.cathbishop.com www.thelongwin.com  

Instagram: cath_bishop  

Inside Out Culture Podcast: https://insideoutculture.buzzsprout.com/  

X: @thecathbishop  

https://www.theguardian.com/profile/cath-bishop