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March, 2011

After the Games:Let the Games begin….50 Things You Must Do After a Major Competition…if you want to win the Next One!

 

So the Games are over. Let the Games begin.

Win, lose or draw, there are 50 Things You Must Do After a Major Competition…if you want to win the Next One (if you seriously consider yourself a high performance coach).

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Finding the Right Head Coach

With all the movements and changes in the head coaching ranks these days, it is worth having a closer look at how to go about finding the right head coach. Read more

The Ten Great Sporting Myths, (and how you can be successful by not believing in them).

There are some people who believe in Bigfoot.

There are others who still think the world is flat.

There are even people who know for a fact the Elvis is alive and is the head chef at a take away restaurant somewhere in the southern United States.

And there are millions of people who believe in the Ten Great Sporting Myths.

But the great news is, that if you refuse to believe in these myths, you can gain a winning advantage over your competition. Read more

Creating a Winning Culture in High Performance Football: the Building Blocks of Brilliance.

Regular readers of this blog will recognise the phrase “High Performance Environment” - it something that has appeared many times in SCB blog posts and discussions.

A High Performance Environment is more or less things you can buy to increase the opportunity for athletes and coaches to perform to their full potential, e.g. facilities, equipment, sports science support, supplements etc etc ad infinitum.

However, creating and sustaining the worlds best high performance environment is of little value if your team is not winning.

A high performance environment: i.e. having the fundamental elements of best practice in high performance sport, is merely the framework – the skeleton on which to hang a winning culture.

You need both: the high performance environment provides the opportunity for athletes, coaches, management and staff to perform to a high standard: a winning culture drives the standards and behaviours that take full advantage of the high performance environment.

A high performance environment provides the potential for success: a winning culture turns potential into performance and performance into victory.

WG

Why Bench – marking is a waste of time in High Performance Sport.

Benchmarking.

It has become one of the Buzz words in high performance sport.

Benchmarking means that someone in an organisation decides to find out what the best people in the industry are doing, learn from them and usually copy what they are doing.

For example, coaches in professional football codes will sometimes visit successful programs in other codes – maybe even in other nations – to try and learn what they do and how they became successful.

Institutes and Academies of Sport and Government sporting authorities often send people to other countries to benchmark systems, structures, programs and innovations.

It seems like a good idea. Travel to see another program, get some instant solutions to problems and some new ideas to help enhance performance - seems like a great idea.

However………….. Read more

Talent Identification – What is it good for? Absolutely nothing – say it again….

Talent Identification – the way we currently do it - doesn’t work.

Here are some things that do and some ideas on how to do it better.

Remember this:

• Leadership is about the future;
• Management is about the present;
• Education is about the past.

So what’s this got to do with why Talent ID programs in the Western world are dismal failures? Read more

Sports Psychology: Integrating Mental Skills Training in Effective Coaching.

We all agree that developing mental skills is an essential part of being a successful athlete.

The ability to perform under pressure, the capacity to remain confident and resilient when competition conditions get tough, the skill to be able to relax and stay focused when feeling pain and fatigue in competition, concentration, visualization……coaches and athletes are unanimous that spending time developing mental skills is time well spent.

However, figuring out the best way to develop mental skills – particularly mental skills which can directly enhance the competition performance of athletes is another matter.

We all think working with a Sports Psychologist is a good idea but Sports Psychologists are like life partners……we know that having one is probably a good idea but it is next to impossible to find a good one. Read more

Values Based Sport: How to Create an effective Values Based Sporting Environment.

Everyone talks about values based coaching.

Lots of people believe in values based management.

Even more promote the benefits of players and athletes coming up with a list of values on which to build a successful team preparation and performance environment.

And yet…in spite of all the talk about values and the millions of dollars being spent in professional sports around the world on developing values, mission statements and team trademarks, we still have sporting teams being destroyed by unprofessional preparation, poor alcohol and social drugs management, sexual harassment, violence, crime and misconduct.

So what is Values Based Sport how do you create an effective Values Based Sporting Environment? Read more

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