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OLDBULL Performance Β· Building a Performance Operating System Β· Module 1 of 4
Know
The Room
Audit your people, your knowledge gaps, and your technology before you build anything else. The foundation every high-performance department skips β and pays for later.
Most departments don't fail because of bad technology. They fail because of the people operating it β and the leader who never looked clearly at either.
The problem
Four failure patterns
every department repeats
No shared language
Coaches, physios, and S&C staff argue about exercises instead of outcomes. Means and modality are the same word to them.
Tech before discipline
Dashboards bought before procedures exist. Data collected before anyone knows what a real change looks like.
Invisible handbrakes
One staff member who won't learn, won't shift, and won't leave β and the leader hasn't named it yet.
Noise called insight
Numbers reported without reliability evidence. Leaders can't defend the call. Athletes pay the price.
What's inside Module 1
One webinar. Three labs.
One podcast.
- KnowledgeβApplication framework: Handbrake / Pawn / Practitioner / Operator
- KnowledgeβBehaviour framework: Misaligned / Coasting / Catalyst / Beacon
- Why people determine the ceiling on every tech investment
- Rogers Innovation Adoption Curve applied to your department
- Live Q&A: what's blocking your environment right now
- Lab 1a β Building a common language: means vs modality and the CMΒ² model
- Lab 1b β People and effective ops audit: know yourself, know your people
- Lab 1c β Tech stack reality check: what you have and whether you can trust it
- Protocol drift β when the test name stays but the test changes
- Maths-free interpretation β declaring change you can't defend
- Communication chaos β dashboards without decisions
- Three rules: standardise before you scale, define real change, make decisions the product
Core framework 1
CMΒ² Model
Control Β· Movement Β· Capacity Β· Maximum. A shared progression map so every staff member can locate any athlete in the system β without a 15-minute explanation each time.
- Control β single joints, early rehab, low training age
- Movement β linked patterns, viable whole-system function
- Capacity β volume, tolerance, robustness
- Maximum β peak intensity, performance push
Core framework 2
KβB Matrix
Knowledge Γ Behaviour. Map every staff member across two axes and make honest decisions about who needs development, who needs responsibility, and who needs to move on.
Knowledge axis
Handbrake β Pawn β Practitioner β Operator
Behaviour axis
Misaligned β Coaster β Catalyst β Beacon
Outcomes
What you walk
out with
Not theory. Actual deliverables you can use in your department the week you complete the module.
A shared framework (CMΒ²) your whole department can use to locate any athlete in the system β without lengthy explanation
An honest knowledgeβbehaviour map of yourself and every key staff member around you
A written tech stack inventory β what you have, what it truly measures, and whether you can trust the numbers
One procedure document for your highest-priority tool β the starting point for repeatable, trustable testing
Clarity on who needs development and who needs a difficult conversation β with the language to have it
A decision standard applied to your actual environment: if you can't repeat it, you can't learn from it
Who this is for
Mid-career practitioners
ready to be honest
S&C coaches stepping into leadership and inheriting a department they didn't build
HPMs resetting a performance department that's producing noise, not decisions
Sport scientists drowning in dashboards but unable to defend a call under pressure
Physios navigating the S&C interface who need a shared language that holds up
Anyone who has bought expensive technology and received expensive noise in return
Leaders who know something's off in their department but haven't been able to name it
Start here
Know the Room.
Then build the system.
Module 1 of 4. The first step in Building a Performance Operating System β developed by Jason Weber from 30 years at the elite end of sport.
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