Posts Tagged ‘Sports Management’
To a Coach with a Hammer, Every Athlete is a Nail: Creativity in Sports Coaching.
Coaching is creativity.
To the successful coaches of the future, creativity will be a core coaching skill: right up there with communication, passion, empathy, commitment, the ability to engage athletes and sports specific technical skill.
But what does it mean to be creative and to coach creatively. And to coaches who are not naturally creative, can they learn to be?
Or to the coach with a hammer, is every athlete a nail? Read more
August 19, 2010 | 3 Comments
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Five World Wide Trends in Sport which you ignore at your peril.
Having visited more than 30 countries in four continents in the past few years and spent time with sports leaders, coaches, athletes, sponsors, sports scientists, sports academics, sports medicine practitioners, sports administrators, government funding agencies and other sports professionals in many of the world’s leading sports systems, five world wide trends in society
(and by extension in sport) have become very clear and are screaming so loud that they can no longer be ignored.
Ignore them at your peril. Read more
August 5, 2010 | 8 Comments
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The Accountability Myth – Why the current Leadership models in High Performance Sport are failing (badly).
Time to be honest about this whole Leadership concept in high performance sport – it is not working.
And why?
It’s not working because of the Accountability Myth: The Accountability Myth is the reason why the current Leadership models in High Performance Sport are failing (badly). Read more
July 25, 2010 | 10 Comments
Tags: AFL, American Football, Baseball, Basketball, Coaching, Cricket, Football, High Performance, Hockey, Netball, Rugby, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Soccer, sport, Sports Management, Tennis
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 | 10 Comments
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Football: The Beautiful Game is a Terrible Shame.
Every four years, us non football (soccer) people get excited, enthusiastic and ecstatic about the FIFA Football World Cup.
We get caught up by the nationalism, the marketing hype and the promises of the ”beautiful game” and being witness to the world’s biggest sporting event.
And, every four years, we walk away scratching our heads thinking “why haven’t they fixed the same problems they had four years earlier? ” Read more
July 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Tags: AFL, American Football, Coaching, Cricket, FIFA World Cup, Football, Football World Cup, High Performance, Netball, Olympic Games, Performance Science, Rugby, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Soccer, Sports Management, sports science
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
June 29, 2010 | 2 Comments
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Sports Employment: How learning Sports Speak can get you your Dream Job in High Performance Sport.
You finished your Uni degree. Bachelor of Applied Science in Sports Studies. Or Bachelor of Science in Human Movement. Or Masters in Exercise Science. Congratulations!!! Mum, Dad and Aunt Lucy are all proud of you. You did it!
You have a nice shiny new degree, a huge brain full of ideas and intelligence and a heart full of optimism, passion and drive just itching to enter a career in high performance sport.
So you start digging through the Sports employment adverts, you visit the sports jobs web sites and you sign up for a few sports career update newsletters.
And you wait.
And you apply for a few jobs.
And you wait.
And maybe you get an interview.
And you wait.
And then, six months after graduation you find out that maybe getting a job in high performance sport wasn’t as easy as you thought and you might want to start learning lines like, “Would you like to Super Size that today, Sir”, “Can I tell you about our blackboard specials today Ma’am” and “Did you have discount coupon to get 4 cents off your fuel purchase?”.
So to help you get in and stay in the world of high performance sport, here is a guide on how to read those all too appealing job advertisements in the high performance sports industry. Read more
June 25, 2010 | 2 Comments
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
June 15, 2010 | 2 Comments
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The FIFA World Cup: How to make sure you fail at Football.
The most basic of all concepts in high performance sport (and art and other areas of human endeavour) is that you do things as an extension of your national culture – or in simple terms “you play like your place”. Read more
June 14, 2010 | 2 Comments
Tags: AFL, American Football, Coaching, Cricket, Football, High Performance, Rugby, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Soccer, Sports Management
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
May 14, 2010 | Comments Off
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