A model, methodology, language, and system for improving the ability to access four critical sports resources – Purpose, Will, Power, and Touch – in sports development and performance.
Ahmed Yehia, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Quantum Solutions, specializes in leadership enhancement, systems thinking, strategy and organizational change.
Quantum Solutions has teamed up with Weems Westfeldt to develop the Sports Diamond™, a vibrant application of the Leadership Diamond®.
Since 1985 Ahmed has maintained a close personal and business relationship with Peter Koestenbaum, creator of the Leadership Diamond®.
In the last few seasons, Weems Westfeldt’s research has been integrated with the work of his friend and colleague Ahmed Yehia and one of Ahmed’s friends and great mentors, Dr. Peter Koestenbaum.
Their work has mostly focused on business philosophy and leadership. However, Ahmed and Weems found that performance in sports and performance in leadership follow essentially the same principles. They believe that both fields are described and framed elegantly and effectively by the Sports Diamond™ and the Leadership Diamond®. (The Leadership Diamond® is a model that helps one enhance leadership skills by improving and balancing the four basic orientations of Courage, Vision, Ethics, and Reality.)
The Sports Diamond™ is an organizing principle proposing that an athlete needs to develop dynamic balance among four global sports resources: Power, Purpose, Touch, and Will. Any athlete who can hold the balance, over time, among these resources can learn to collaborate better with a coach, to self-coach, to enhance performance in all sports, and to create brilliant days, every day-even when not at peak performance. Any athlete who emphasizes one resource to a fault, at the expense of others, will ultimately become stuck on an endless learning plateau leading to boredom, poor performance, frustration, and abandonment of the activity.
The Sports Diamond™ works, both short and long term, because:
- Any athlete can learn to approach any sport with full engagement in both process and results.
- It teaches athletes how to avoid becoming stuck and fragmented in their growth within their sport.
- It provides a clear yet flexible roadmap for practice, decision-making, development, and strategy.
It is grounded in sports psychology, learning theory, kinesiology, race coaching, and 50 seasons of practical ski instruction and research. Therefore individuals quickly recognize themselves and their experiences within it. This in turn, provides them with an easy grasp and application of its basic premises in all sports.
Diamond Sessions teach you to ski and ride like you’ve never imagined, while learning The Sports Diamond™ framework on the slopes of Aspen/Snowmass, Colorado.
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