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

By: Coach Training

Coach Training — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:26:21 +0000

“The first step in doing anything where money or the lack of it, is to establish priorities – if you can’t afford to do everything you would like to do optionals, spend time, effort and money on the things you have to do essentials.” Nice post and thanks for comment.

By: Wayne Goldsmith

Wayne Goldsmith — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:18:36 +0000

Thanks Cycling guy!

Great to have your support.

By: Wayne Goldsmith

Wayne Goldsmith — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:17:51 +0000

Thanks Jeremy.

Feel free to use the post if it is of value. As a general rule, I am happy for people to use any of my work if they respect the standard conventions of all published work:

1. Acknowledge the source;
2. If using my work increases their commercial opportunities (i.e. if they make money from my work) that they send me a percentage. I have three kids, a mortgage and am saving up for a little fishing boat so all donations are cheerfully accepted;
3. Leave my name on the work somewhere.

I was in another country a few years back and a guy there was selling books on swimming. When I flicked through the book, around 50% of the work was mine – but there was no acknowledgement and no profit sharing. Life is a funny thing!

Thanks for the honor of considering my work worthy of citation. Very humbling.

By: Wayne Goldsmith

Wayne Goldsmith — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:10:55 +0000

Thanks for the comment James.

I believe more and more that investment in creativity and teaching coaches to learn faster, be open minded to possibilities and to be creative in their coaching is the most important factor to achieve success in high performance sport in this decade.

With the Internet and the access to information anywhere, anytime and for free – you have to assume that everyone knows what you know and that the days of building a coaching philosophy on “secret” knowledge are over.

Now it is the coach who creates who will be victorious – and if you combine that creativity with real self belief, anything is possible: Creativity plus Confidence = Winning Coaching in this decade.

Thank you sincerely for your support.

By: James Marshall

James Marshall — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:04:43 +0000

Hi Wayne,
great post again- I think that a lot of coaches use the lack of funding as an excuse for not being able to perform. A good coach can work with minimal equipment, but instil great ethic and performance amongst their players.

Coaching is about creativity as well as planning- it is amazing how many big budget organisations just chuck money away – the LTA in the UK is a prime example of building white elephants.

By: Jeremy Pryce

Jeremy Pryce — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:33:34 +0000

Great piece of advice Wayne! May I use this if I quote the source?

Jeremy

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