Sir Dave Brailsford and Team INEOS may be handling sports coronavirus-enforced shutdown better than most sports organisations.

"As a team, we don't have a facility base," the INEOS Team Principal begins in explanation. "We go to a race, we work together, and then we have to work very much geographically dispersed; a lot of the time it's conference calls, Zoom calls - the way that everyone is working at the minute is familiar to us... we're not racing, but it feels like a ramped-up business-as-usual to us."

Nevertheless, Brailsford provided some typically thought-provoking insights during his appearance on At Home With Leaders, where he spoke to co-hosts Matthew Stone, Leaders’ Senior Product Manager, and sports psychologist and consultant Michael Caulfield, whose clients include Brentford FC, Northampton Saints RFC and Hampshire CCC.

Up for discussion were:

- Team INEOS' three-stage approach to managing its organisation during the pandemic [6:00];

- Brushing off the envy of rivals and fellow competitors [23:00];

- Environmental factors that impact on what he terms the 'discretionary' aspects of performance [29:00];

- How his recent illness changed his perspective on work and life [37:00].

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