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An inspirational session with GB Athletics heroes, Steve Backley & Roger Black


MOTIVATIONAL

This fantastic experience gives you the opportunity to work with one or both, of two of Great Britain’s finest ever athletes, the 400-metre legend, Roger Black MBE and Javelin hero, Steve Backley OBE. Roger represented Great Britain for fourteen years, winning fifteen major championship medals, including the Olympic 400 metres silver medal in 1996 and being part of the gold medal winning 4 x 400 metres relay team at the 1991 World Championships. He was British Men’s team captain and was awarded the MBE in 1992. Steve was ranked in the world’s top ten in the javelin every year between 1989 and 2002 and is the only British track and field competitor to win medals at three different Olympic Games; Barcelona, Atlanta and Sydney. Throughout his career he also became the World’s number one javelin thrower having broken the world record three times, was crowned ‘World Athlete of the Year’ by the IAAF in 1990 and was awarded the OBE in 2003.

Our online event experience will enable individuals and organisations to gain knowledge of what drives sporting success, translating it into real-life, day to day activities that can be acquired by anyone with the will to commit. The topics will cover:

Motivational Presentations
An inspirational insight into Olympic performance, how athletes operate individually and as a team, allowing the group/ individuals to challenge their own performance, relating it to the parallel world of elite sport.

Presentation to include anecdotes from both Steve Backley and Roger Black around the following topics 

  • Introduction/ Positioning 

  • What is Success for You? Roger and Steve ask this question to help gain clarity of purpose from the very beginning. They will reference what we’ve all just been through with the lockdown and new lifestyle restrictions.

  • Key Learnings from the Olympics: (Note: The following can be delivered as a continual presentation or as a series of mini insights on each topic - interspersed with an interactive Q+A to further translate the topics)

    • Getting Going and Taking the First Steps: An intimate insight into the early stages of realising an Olympic dream.

    • Reaching the Top: The challenges, the misconceptions, the truths and the joy of becoming the best in the world.

    • Dealing with Adversity and Setbacks: From injury to illness, when the carpet is pulled from under your feet - how both Roger and Steve were forced to rebuild from the bottom up.

    • Planning for Success: Introducing an overview of effective planning, snagging and delivering under pressure

    • Retaining Motivation: How to ignite and maintain the hunger to succeed year in year out, through both good and bad times.

    • Creating a Positive Vision: The power of creating a vision for success and the techniques embedding this into a stable performance 

    • Building a Winning Team: The story, behind the scenes, of the 1991 World Champion Relay gold medal performance

Mind-Setting

A new online personal development programme to help users optimise their performance. Users are introduced to 5 stages of Performance development, via a series of short videos, as part of a step by step system they can use to develop a Winning Mindset. The videos are broken down into the following stages:

  • Phase 1 - Foundations for Success

  • Phase 2 - The 4 Pillars of Performance 

  • Phase 3 - 5 Key Skills

  • Phase 4 - Advanced Solutions 

  • Phase 5 - Analysis and Reflection

This will be an insightful 90-minute event, where you and your guests will pick up some great tips from two Olympic heroes, that everyone will be able to apply to their own lives.

Package Content

  • An inspiring 90-minute online event for your party, hosted by Roger Black and Steve Backley

  • The event will focus on all of the areas detailed above

  • Question and Answer session for all of your group to get involved in

  • A PDF from Roger and Steve summarising everything that they discuss within the event

  • Opportunity to display branding behind Roger and Steve to increase brand exposure (costs for producing these will be additional)

  • Video recording of the online event to be sent to you afterwards

  • Administrator to be behind the scenes ensuring all goes to plan with your online event

Provisional Itinerary

  • 2pm: Your online event commences. Introduction from Roger Black & Steve Backley.

  • 2.05pm: What is success for you?

  • 2.15pm: Key Learnings from the Olympics

  • 2.45pm: Mind-Setting

  • 3.15pm: Question & answer session

  • 3.30pm: Event concludes

Potential Add-Ons

  • Branding: We can create the branding to go behind Roger and Steve, so your company gets maximum exposure from the event.

  • Souvenir: We can create a souvenir of the event for all of your guests, with a signed Great Britain athletics top by Roger and Steve, made out with a personal message for each your attending guests. The signed shirt can be framed, alongside some images of them both in GB action and delivered to the homes of all of your online event attendees.

  • Video: Our professional videographer can create you a branded highlights video from the footage with the best bits of your online event, which you can then use on your website or for social media purposes.

The Future

Once restrictions lift, we could run this event at a venue near to your business, so that all of your selected clients/employees can attend. Steve and Roger will cover different topics and include some interactive sessions, where your guests can break-off into teams. This could be a great follow-up to this inspiring online event.

Enquire now about this and other Celebrity Online Events.

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