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Responsibility for Performance in Professional Football: Where the Buck Stops!
Whether teams win or lose, people want to know who is responsible.
Just take a look at the after match interviews.
The media want to talk to the players who were responsible for scoring the winning goal, the winning try, the incredible touchdown that won the game or the unbelievable conversion kicked from the sideline, while the final siren was blowing, in the pouring rain with a hostile crowd chanting “miss-miss”.
The media want to talk to the coach and ask why the team lost and to find out who was responsible for the lack of effort, lack of energy, poor execution of team strategies, poor skill execution under pressure, the missed tackle and the blown opportunity.
And it continues over the year to the end of season review process where people aim to pin responsibility for the team’s poor record on one person, one system, one coach, one player, one aspect of preparation…….
Professional football is very much about responsibility, so let’s try and clarify who exactly is responsible for performance in professional football: where the buck stops. Read more
September 13, 2011 | 1 Comment
Tags: AFL, American Football, Baseball, Basketball, Coaching, Cricket, Football, High Performance, Hockey, Netball, Performance Science, Rugby, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Soccer, sport, Sports coaching, Sports leadership, Sports Management, sports science, Training
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
