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Posts Tagged ‘Sports Management’

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:

1. Problem solving;
2. Crisis management;
3. Creating and sustaining a high performance environment, i.e. change management and continuous improvement;
4. Finding, training and retaining the right people;
5. 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

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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Beer Battles: Blowing the Froth off Football.

Alcohol and footy are hot topics right now: that’s nothing new – they have been hot topics since both were invented. Read more

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Getting it right from the start: Building a Winning Sporting Team from the ground up.

Got problems with your sporting team?

Things not going quite right?

Got issues with your culture? Your leadership? Your operations? Attitude? Performance? Preparation? Personality conflicts? Political squabbles?

Ever sit down and wish you could start all over again?

Ever dream about building a winning sporting team from the ground up or talk about how you would go about getting it right from the start?

Yes?

Then this article is for you.

Read more

The Ten Great Sporting Myths, (and how you can be successful by not believing in them).

There are some people who believe in Bigfoot.

There are others who still think the world is flat.

There are even people who know for a fact the Elvis is alive and is the head chef at a take away restaurant somewhere in the southern United States.

And there are millions of people who believe in the Ten Great Sporting Myths.

But the great news is, that if you refuse to believe in these myths, you can gain a winning advantage over your competition. Read more

Values Based Sport: How to Create an effective Values Based Sporting Environment.

Everyone talks about values based coaching.

Lots of people believe in values based management.

Even more promote the benefits of players and athletes coming up with a list of values on which to build a successful team preparation and performance environment.

And yet…in spite of all the talk about values and the millions of dollars being spent in professional sports around the world on developing values, mission statements and team trademarks, we still have sporting teams being destroyed by unprofessional preparation, poor alcohol and social drugs management, sexual harassment, violence, crime and misconduct.

So what is Values Based Sport how do you create an effective Values Based Sporting Environment? Read more

Winning and Losing: Outplayed or Out-talented?

High Performance sport is founded on a relatively simple equation: you either win or you lose.

And when you lose, it is natural to look for the reasons “why” through performance reviews etc.

A critical aspect in understanding the “losing process” is to find the answer to this question….were you outplayed or out-talented? Read more

To a Coach with a Hammer, Every Athlete is a Nail: Creativity in Sports Coaching.

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New Sport…what is it, how to make it work in your sport and why it will succeed

Have a good look at these three guys…these are your clients…these guys and their families will determine whether you, your Club and your sport will survive in the next 20 years.

Do you know who they are?

Do you know what they want from sport?

Have you bothered to ask them? Read more

New Sport:Old Sport. The Decade of Client Focused Sport is Here.

As the new decade starts, it is time to face the realities of the sports experience around the world.

The last decade, saw the most significant changes in society, in learning, in education, in technology and in social change that the world has experienced. 

And, in general, sport has not kept pace with the extent or speed of the changes.

New Sport: Old Sport. The Decade of Client Focused Sport is Here. Read more

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