We are happy to announce the dates for the What It Takes To Win (WITTW) Strategy Workshops.

The goal of the workshops is to establish the gold standard in our sport, what does it take to win medals at the Olympic Games?

We will analyse where we are at the moment as a high performance system, and discuss the programmes and initiatives we require to bridge the gap.

The Olympic debrief we have been conducting the past couple of weeks will feed in to this process.

The sessions will be based around the seven AIS performance drivers and we will have presentations from experts at the AIS in many of the subject areas. More information on this will follow.

The sessions dates are:

• Tuesday 28^th September, 8pm - 10pm  (Virtual and Sporthouse Brisbane) - Introduction and Session 1 - Leadership and Culture
• Sunday 3^rd October (Virtual)
  • 9am - 11.30am Session 2 - Innovation (Learning and Research
  • 12pm - 1.30pm Session 3 - Coaching and Learning Development
• Tuesday 5^th October 8pm - 10pm (Virtual) Session 4 - Daily Training Environment
• Tuesday 12^th October 8pm - 10pm (Virtual) Session 5 - Athletes
• Sunday 17^th October (Virtual and Sporthouse Brisbane)
  • 11am - 12pm Session 6 - Competitions
  • 12.30pm - 2pm Session 7 - Talent ID | Branding |Participation | Business Process Optimisation
  • 2.30pm - 3.30pm Session 8 - Summary

These sessions will be workshops, to get your thoughts, experiences and learnings in to key areas of the HP system.
We would like both individuals with a lot of knowledge of the system nd also individuals across the stakeholders (administration, coach, judge, athlete, retired athlete, parent, etc) to be involved.

If you can only make one session that is fine, ideally you can make all, and as a little thank you we will provide a small subsistence payment for those that can contribute in all sessions.

A general overview of the performance driver definitions are below:

• Innovation (What can we do better? What can we do different? Outside the box)
• Daily Training Environment (What is required in the daily training environment to be world class?)
• Coach Learning and Development(Skill Acquisition, Mentoring, Coaching Network, etc)
• Leadership and Culture (What are our Goals?, What are our standards?, What are our Values?)
• Athletes (What is required form athlete to medal at the Olympics? How do we better support athletes to medal at the Olympics? How do we get better technical athletes entering the system? Talent Transfer, Talent ID)
• Competitions (Structure, Level, Timing, International Events - What do we require? And Why?)

If you are able to attend any or all of the sessions can you please register your interest by emailing richard.v@artisticswimming.org.au and we will forward the conference details.

For those that are able to attend all of the meetings we will be able to contribute a small subsistence payment for your time. It is important to be registered in advance for the sessions you can attend for this payment to be confirmed.