Ventures
Marketworthy is an entrepreneurial organisation. The business seeks to pursue opportunities and establish other businesses that have a good fit with its mission and people. In particular, Marketworthy has a desire to build product businesses.
Sports Mind Skills™ is a partnership venture.
The mission of Sports Mind Skills is to more fully understand the dimensions of elite sport performance and provide best practice training resources. These resources can be used to accelerate skill acquisition and the development of winning attitudes and behaviours through mind skills training.
The business has commenced the development of high quality audio resources. The resources library is available on-line and uses the latest in technology to deliver resources to athletes any time, anywhere.
Mind Skills for Sailing (Vol. 1) is the world’s first CD resource specifically designed for the racing sailor. Spoken by Dr. Michael Blackburn, himself a bronze medal winner at the Sydney Olympics, the CD features guided imagery on start preparation, mark rounding, sailing strategy, controlling arousal, relaxation, distraction control and focusing techniques.
StartToWin™ is the Sports division of Marketworthy Pty Ltd.
The mission of StartToWin™ is to help athletes, teams, clubs, coaches and sporting organisations to be more successful. It will achieve this by delivering innovative products and services that assist athletes to learn about themselves and their sport and evaluate and improve their skills. We also support coaches, clubs and managers to work effectively with the athletes in their care.
StartToWin™ clients include private individuals as well as Yachting Australia, Yachting Queensland, Yachting Victoria and the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron.
Services
- Performance improvement consulting
- Innovation strategy & planning
- Skills coaching – individual and squad
- Racing skills programs & workshops
- Physical preparation programs
- Program planning
Products
- Elite Performance Guide™ diagnostic
- Racing skills programs & workshops
Program Planning (sailing) - workshop
StartToWin™ has created a 15 hour eight module program planning workshop. Workshop materials and numerous teaching methods are utilised to educate, guide and coach athletes to develop a structured and sequential 12 month training plan. The workshop utilises a number of proprietary worksheets and copyright materials developed by StartToWin™.
Building race confidence - workshop
Building race confidence is a 1.5 hour group workshop designed to develop athlete mind skills. Workshop outcomes include raised awareness of how thinking affects performance and the development of new strategies to manage anxiety, frustration and negative thinking.
Managing arousal - workshop
Managing arousal is a 1.5 hour group workshop designed to develop athlete mind skills. Workshop outcomes include raised awareness of how arousal levels affects performance and the development of new strategies to lower or raise arousal for peak performance.
Skills coaching (Sailing) - Individual & Squad
StartToWin™ has successfully delivered individual and squad coaching on behalf of multiple clients, including: Yachting Australia, Yachting Victoria and Yachting Queensland. StartToWin™ coaching pedagogy is strongly influenced by the work of Michael Pohl (www.thinkingeducation.com.au).Using a unique style of questioning language, StartToWin™ works hard to develop the ‘thinking athlete’.
Championship Preparation (Sailing) - Racing Skills Program
This 20 session program is designed to assist athletes preparing for a championship event. The program targets specific aspects of race performance and seeks to build athlete confidence through a structured and sequential approach to skills training.
The program has been highly successful and has been noted by athletes, clubs and parents as having made a significant contribution to championship winning performances at local, state, national and world championship level.