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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:
- Talent identification;
- Talent recruitment;
- 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
July 13, 2010 | 5 Comments
Tags: AFL, American Football, Archery, Athletics, Badminton, Baseball, Basketball, Boxing, Coach education, Coaching, Cricket, Cycling, Diving, Football, Gymnastics, High Performance, Hockey, Netball, Olympic Games, Olympics, Performance Science, Rugby, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Soccer, sport, Sport and Parenting, sporting parents, Sports coaching, Sports Management, sports science, Swimming, Tennis, Track and Field, Training, Triathlon, Weightlifting, Wrestling
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 | Leave a Comment
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
Creative Coaching: Teaching coaches to be Creative and Innovative.
Quick.
Write down your own list of the top ten skills of quality coaching. What does it look like? Something like this?
- Communication skills;
- Passion;
- Empathy with athletes;
- The ability to engage with athletes and inspire athletes to fully engage with the program;
- Enthusiasm;
- Technical knowledge;
- An understanding of the relevant principles of sports science and sports medicine;
- Energy;
- Curiosity (which inspires a passion for learning);
- A commitment to continuous improvement and accelerated learning.
You could add hundreds of skills to this list: experience, drive, initiative, the will to win, attention to detail, commitment, vision, determination, a strong work ethic…………there are as many desirable coaching skills as there are coaches.
But, in this century, there is one coaching skill to rule them all – creativity: creative coaching.
The question is…...can you teach coaches to be creative?
February 15, 2010 | 2 Comments
Tags: Coach development, Coach education, Coaching, High Performance, sport, Sports coaching, UCNISS
