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High Performance Sport

Can You Guarantee Winning in High Performance Sport?

Yes you can!

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A Fish Rots from the Head: Solving Problems in High Performance Sport.

In High Performance Sport, experience is important.

Knowledge of the sports industry is critical.

An understanding of the culture of high performance is vital.

But ultimately, success is high performance sport comes down to possessing exceptional talent and ability in five core areas:

1. Problem solving;
2. Crisis management;
3. Creating and sustaining a high performance environment, i.e. change management and continuous improvement;
4. Finding, training and retaining the right people;
5. Quality, consistent leadership.

And of these five skills, problem solving is perhaps the least understood – primarily because it hard to measure, hard to define and next to impossible to teach.

Here is Problem Solving in High Performance Sport 101. Read more

What is High Performance?

One of the most commonly asked questions in this business is, “What Exactly is High Performance?”

People talk about, write about, think about sports science, sports medicine, exercise physiology, talent identification, performance psychology, biomechanics, skill acquisition, elite coach development, recovery, sports physiotherapy, sports massage, performance analysis and all the elements and components of high performance sport, but what is it?

What is this thing called High Performance?

I can summarise it all in one word………Change.

People make High Performance seem a lot more complex, tricky and mysterious than it really needs to be. Sure there is some really cool technology and terminology involved – as there is in all industries – but the essence of High Performance is Change – or rather, accelerating the rate of it.

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Getting it right from the start: Building a Winning Sporting Team from the ground up.

Got problems with your sporting team?

Things not going quite right?

Got issues with your culture? Your leadership? Your operations? Attitude? Performance? Preparation? Personality conflicts? Political squabbles?

Ever sit down and wish you could start all over again?

Ever dream about building a winning sporting team from the ground up or talk about how you would go about getting it right from the start?

Yes?

Then this article is for you.

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Why Professional Football Teams Lose: 100 Reasons to Explain Why Teams Don’t Win.

Ever wanted to know why professional football teams lose?

Here’s 100 reasons why - and there are many, many more. Read more

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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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.

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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.

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High Performance on a Budget – can you create a high performance environment without spending any money?

When clients ask me to work with them, it is usually to help them  become the best they can be in one or both of these two areas:

1. Help them to create a sustainable winning culture and / or:

2. Help them to create a world class high performance environment, (i.e. the things you can build and buy).

Although most of the time I get to work with professional sports and elite level Olympic teams, I am regularly asked to work with schools, amateur sporting clubs and part time coaches on a range of performance related issues, athlete attitudes, motivation techniques, leadership development, coach development exercises and sports performance enhancement programs.

Recently a client from an amateur but highly successful sporting Club asked me, “Wayne, we hear what you say about the best high performance environments in the world and about tools like GPS systems, ice baths, recovery centres, the latest video analysis systems and having a sports medicine team available 24 / 7. But we are all part timers. We gladly donate our time to coach the team and we have to fit our coaching around our jobs and our family. Our budget is minimal. Can we still create an effective high performance environment without spending any money?”

Yes, you can. Read more

Winning and Losing: Outplayed or Out-talented?

High Performance sport is founded on a relatively simple equation: you either win or you lose.

And when you lose, it is natural to look for the reasons “why” through performance reviews etc.

A critical aspect in understanding the “losing process” is to find the answer to this question….were you outplayed or out-talented? Read more

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