High Performance Sport

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? (more…)

By Wayne Goldsmith, ago

The High Performance Sport Checklist – Part Two of the List of 50 Things you Must be doing to Succeed in High Performance Sport.

Score Key: 0-10: High performance sport is not for you. Maybe try your hand at pavement painting or hole digging or grass mowing or something else which does not require the consistent application of excellence. 11-20: You might dream about being high performance and talk about being high performance, but Read more…

By Wayne Goldsmith, ago

The Performance Clock and Coaching

The aim is to create a sustainably successful high performance environment and to always be competitive. Winning once can be a matter of luck. Sustainable competitiveness comes from good planning, good management, vision, creativity, innovation and hard work.
The Performance Clock explains why athletes, coaches and teams fail to sustain competitiveness and how you can avoid the traps and pitfalls inherent in the cycle of sports performance.

By Wayne Goldsmith, ago