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What’s all this Leadership by Empowerment stuff about?

Leadership groups, leadership teams, player leadership teams, team councils………

What’s going on here? Players making decisions? Players leading? Players taking ownership of their training and playing programs?

What’s all this empowerment stuff about?
What does engagement mean? Is someone getting married?
And what the hell is a leadership group?

I thought coaches coached, managers managed, fans cheered, doctors doctored and players played.

All of sudden every AFL, rugby, football, cricket, netball and rugby league team has embraced a player empowerment leadership model. Five years ago, most of us couldn’t even spell it.

Let’s have closer look at what’s going on. (more…)

By Wayne Goldsmith, 7 yearsMarch 10, 2018 ago

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? (more…)

By Wayne Goldsmith, 7 yearsMarch 8, 2018 ago

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? (more…)

By Wayne Goldsmith, 7 yearsMarch 7, 2018 ago

Recruiting a Successful High Performance Team in High Performance Sport

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Gone are the days of the “Guru” sports coaches: the “Super Coach” of the past has lost his powers to the kryptonite of modern sport – i.e. the increased complexity and sophistication of high performance sports environments.

Sure, the great names of coaching have all been “one man bands” – strong, decisive, authoritarian, personal leadership focused head coaches who controlled every aspect of the team’s performance.

However, high performance sport has developed at an incredible rate over the past twenty years and the knowledge and skills required to win a high performance sporting competition are greater than any one person can bring to the table.

Think of the advances in performance science, sports science, sports medicine, analysis, IT, nutrition, psychology and technology since the 1980s.

How can we expect that any one person can be the expert in all performance areas plus coach the team, deal with the media, work with Club Board and Executive, recruit new players, talk to sponsors, meet the fans etc etc etc?

So – the Coaching Team and High Performance Team concepts are born.

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By Wayne Goldsmith, 7 yearsFebruary 27, 2018 ago

Hot Topics

More with Less part two – the next steps.

Thanks for the emails and comments and calls about Part one of this article – More with Less.

The basic premise of More with Less is:

“That is, in all probability, changes in society will demand that you will have to find ways of improving the performance of your athletes, players and teams in LESS time”.

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By Wayne Goldsmith, 7 yearsFebruary 25, 2018 ago

Hot Topics

Sports Science: Observations of Philosophies in Sports Science and Sports Medicine in High Performance Sport

Sports Science has to Change

Over the past 20 years I have had the fortunate experience of working with some of the leading sporting nations in their quest for elite sporting excellence.

I write this article as a plea to all sports scientists, regardless of discipline, to evaluate what they are doing and think about being more innovative and creative in their methods and practices. (more…)

By Wayne Goldsmith, 7 yearsFebruary 24, 2018 ago