Meet Eric Alard, bobsleigh olympic medalist, and coach of the Swiss bobsleigh team who won the olympics under his management. Today, Eric is a Keynote Speaker, coach, director of 2 business schools and he tells us how he perceives performance, how he switched from being an athlete to being a coach and how he changed career! Discover my website here: https://butzi-speaker.com Here is the time reference: In this podcast, we have the pleasure to interview Eric Alard, a bobsleigh champion and coach of the swiss team for the Olympics. Eric shares with us his experience of the competitive world of sports before switching his career to working as a manager and a professor in a business school. He gives us his best tips to succeed as an entrepreneur and to build a good cohesive team. 00:00 Intro Eric 00:09 Eric, an athlete and a coach 01:51 The difference between both careers. 02:50 Helping people achieve their dream 03:29 The performance mode as an athlete 05:35 “Certain losses are more acceptable than stolen victories.” Life as a coach 07:55 “Where can I go?” goals and achievement 10:13 Communicating with people involved in your goals 12:32 Life as a coach: helping others and having a vision for the team 15:04 The limits people put themselves 17:20 Eric’s father’s influence 19:06 Most important qualities as a coach Eric’s tips 22:19 Eric’s tips on team spirit 26:26 How to embody and share the same values as a team 30:45 The tipping point: from coaching to working in companies Career shifts and changes 34:09 Obstacles in the transition: from one job to another 35:45 Adaptation: controlling chaos as a manager 37:01 The next career change: Business schools Work-life balance 38:23 Sleep and family Setting goals and taking action 41:08 “Perform 90” 43:56 “There is no one way to have success.” 45:01 “There’s no magic formula.” 46:39 “Be satisfied with what you have and forget your dreams.” 47:28 “The high-performance world.” 48:46 Changing dreams into goals: taking action 49:46 “When you will be really angry, you will start to move.” 52:08 Set goals for motivation 54:59 “Done is better than perfect.” 56:19 Perfection vs enough 57:23 Eric’s main obstacle Conclusion 58:33 What’s next? 1:00:13 Conclusion Follow him on: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericalard Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alard.eric More at https://ericalard.fr He performance program: https://ericalard.fr/Perform_90/m-P90