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Hiring and Developing a Winning Coaching Team
Hiring and Developing a Winning Coaching Team

The Coaching Team.

Gone are the days of the “GURU” coaches.

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

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

Think of the advances in 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 Performance Team concepts are born.

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Sports Skills: The 7 Sports Skills Steps You Must Master in Every Sport.
Sports Skills: The 7 Sports Skills Steps You Must Master in Every Sport.

Sports coaches all over the world have been devoted to the mindless repetition model of skills learning and mastery for the past 50 years. However, there is a huge difference between being able to perform sports skills well in training and being able to consistently perform sports skills under competition conditions, e.g. under fatigue, at high speed and under pressure. This article aims to challenge the old “practice makes perfect” coaching philosophy and replace it with a more competition focused approach of “Performance Practice”.

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