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The Evolution of Leadership in Professional Sport: from coach to captain to collaboration.

Leadership?

Lots of people talk about where leadership in sport is now.

But where did our current thinking on leadership come from? How did leadership in professional sport evolve?

And more importantly, where is leadership in professional sport going?

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Good to Great – Ten Qualities of Excellence in Coaching (and life)

Go from Good to Great in Ten Easy Steps???

The Good to Great part is easy………it’s writing about it in Ten Easy Steps that’s the hard bit! Read more

Ten Reasons Why Change is so Hard to Introduce in Sport

Change is one of the most talked about aspects of sport.

But change is also one of the hardest things to actually introduce successfully and sustain in any sporting environment.

Why?

Because people who introduce change are often seen as radicals or “ratbags” or people who know nothing about the sport or people who don’t understand the sport’s culture or similar negative label. Read more

What’s all this Leadership by Empowerment stuff about?

Leadership groups, leadership teams, player leadership teams, team councils………

What’s going on here? Players making decisions? Players leading? Players taking ownership of their training and playing programs?

What’s all this empowerment stuff about?

What does engagement mean? Is someone getting married?

And what the hell is a leadership group?

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The future – who will get there first?

By Wayne Goldsmith

In business and in elite sport there are three basic types of people.

Those who are innovative, creative, rule breakers, risk takers – leaders: people who have a vision of what’s possible and make the future theirs.

Those who watch the leaders and innovators and copy them.

Those who don’t care about the future – they just keep repeating what they do now over and over and over and over and over…

Which one are you?

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  Expert advice, ideas, innovation and inspiration for all sports coaches and team managers - from 'grass roots' through to elite and high performance levels. All posts are written by Wayne Goldsmith, AKA the "Sports Coaching Brain". If you have a question or comment about any post, please add it to the comments section.

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