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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:
- Problem solving;
- Crisis management;
- Creating and sustaining a high performance environment, i.e. change management and continuous improvement;
- Finding, training and retaining the right people;
- 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
August 2, 2011 | Comments Off
Tags: American Football, Athletics, Baseball, Basketball, Coaching, Commonwealth Games, Cricket, Cycling, Football, High Performance, High Performance Coaching, High Performance Sport, Netball, Olympics, Professional Sport, Rugby, Rugby Union, Soccer, sport, Sports Administration, Sports coaching, Sports leadership, Sports Management, Swimming, Tennis, Track and Field, Triathlon
Important Message to All South African Sports Coaching Brain fans
I will be in South Africa from November 15th – November 29th 2010.
Hope to catch up with all my friends, colleagues and Sports Coaching Brain fans while I am there.
Wayne Goldsmith
July 13, 2010 | Comments Off
Tags: Coaching, Cricket, elite coaching, elite sport, High Performance Coaching, High Performance Sport, high performance sports coaching, Olympic sport, performance, Performance Science, Rugby, Rugby Union, south africa, Sports coaching, sports coaching brain, sports science, Swimming
