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Posts Tagged ‘Diving’

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?

I thought coaches coached, managers managed, fans cheered, doctors doctored and players played.

All of sudden every AFL, rugby, football, cricket, netball and rugby league team has embraced a player empowerment leadership model. Five years ago, most of us couldn’t even spell it.

Let’s have closer look at what’s going on. Read more

Top Ten Talent I.D. Tips for High Performance Sport – The T.O.P. Approach

 

So much of the world’s high performance sports dollars (or Yens or Yuans or Euros or Pounds or Pesos or Rands depending on where you come from), time, energy, focus and attention is spent on three things:

1. Talent identification;
2. Talent recruitment;
3. Talent development.

Or if you like, find them, sign them, refine them.

And most of the world has still got it wrong. There is a better way. Read more

Coach = Athlete = Coach

Apply the same standards and expectations to yourself as you expect from your athletes.

Apply the same standards and expectations to yourself as you expect from your athletes.

One more time, just in case you didn’t get it.

Apply the same standards and expectations to yourself as you expect from your athletes.

Think about it. How can you coach at your best and provide quality coaching services to talented athletes when your own standards and what you expect of yourself is LESS than what you expect of your athletes? Read more

A New Head Coach is No Longer the Solution in High Performance Sport.

 

There was a time when a new head was the solution to all problems in a high performance sports team.

Team not winning - get a new head coach.

Team’s culture not right – get a new head coach.

Team’s attitude and commitment flagging – get a new head coach.

Times have changed.

A new head coach is no longer the solution in high performance sport. Read more

Where is leadership in sport going: the future of leadership.

First…there were the LEADERS. The autocratic, dictatorial, “my way or the highway” type leaders.

Then came the LEADERSHIP GROUPS, LEADERSHIP COUNCILS, LEADERSHIP TEAMS.

So what’s next?

There is a revolution in leadership coming: the way we think about it, the way we talk about it, the way we develop it is all about to change.

Read on………………….  Read more

Helping Your Child Achieve in Sport – Fifty Things You Can Do

Fifty tips for parents of young athletes, to help them get the most out of their chosen sport.

 

1. Love them unconditionally.
2. Support their coach.
3. Accept that they can not win every time they compete.
4. Allow them to be a kid and to have fun.
5. Help them to develop as a person with character and values.
6. Turn off as a sporting parent. Don’t make sport the one and only topic of conversation at the dinner table, in the car, etc.
7. Don’t introduce your child as “This is my son the swimmer or Rugby player” – their sport is just something they do – it does not define them.
8. Don’t do everything for them. Teach them responsibility and self management.
9. Reward frequently for success and effort but make them small, simple, practical, and personal things. Kids don’t need a CD or $20 just for playing sport.
10. Best of all reward them with what they really love…….your time! Read more

News Flash: Olympic Cycle Changed to Six Years.

News Flash, Lausanne, Switzerland. Here is the latest news.

The IOC today announced that effective immediately there will be two Olympic Cycles.

The first one, known from this date forward as the “Pretenders Cycle” will run on the traditional four year Olympic cycle.

The second cycle, announced today as the ”Contenders Cycle”, is a six year cycle. It is expected that the majority of Olympic medal winners will be using the new six year cycle.

Our Olympic reporter Wayne Goldsmith has more….. Read more

Sports Science Killed the Coaching Star, Sports Science Killed the Coaching Star….

Heard that old song by the Buggles, “Video killed the Radio Star”?

We have our own version in sport – it goes “Sports science killed the coaching star, sports science killed the coaching star” - only problem is that in our version, we really did kill off all the coaches.

Read more

50 Ways to Enhance your Coaching Performance in High Performance Sport.

Recently I got an email from someone saying, “Hi Wayne. You seem to have a lot to say about what people are doing wrong in high performance sport. How about you “put your money where your mouth is” and post a list of things people can do to enhance the performance of their athletes, teams and programs.”

OK. I did. Read more

Money (rarely) Matters: Why believing that Money is the Only Solution to Problems in High Performance Sport is silly.

I get asked to help athletes, coaches, teams and sporting organisations all over the world.

My process is simple.

Find out what the problems really are, find out where the problems really are, find out who the problems really are and figure out how to fix them: what I call the PPP approach – Practices (i.e what people do), Places (i.e. culture, environment) and People.

I look at lots of things: coaching, player talent and abilities, sports science, sports medicine, facilities, equipment, management, strength and conditioning and of course I look at the resources (money) available for the organisation to spend enhancing the performance of their high performance program.

Want to know how I know when money is not the real problem in the organisation?

When they tell me that it is. Read more

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  • Evolution of Coaching Rugby Teams – from Coaching the Team to Coaching Today
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