• The Accountability Myth – Why the current Leadership models in High Performance Sport are failing (badly).

    Updated: 2010-07-25 04:38:37
    Person surrounded with crowd from Crestock Stock Photo 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). Every [...]

  • Evolution of Coaching Rugby Teams – from Coaching the Team to Coaching Today

    Updated: 2010-07-20 05:23:21
    This morning I received an email from a Rugby coach in New Zealand about the evolution of leadership and coaching in rugby. Thought it would be of interest to everyone who coaches any football code – or any team sport for that matter: Email to www.sportscoachingbrain.com Hi Wayne,   I coach a 1st XV rugby [...]

  • What’s all this Leadership by Empowerment stuff about?

    Updated: 2010-07-13 06:33:02
    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, [...]

  • Top Ten Talent I.D. Tips for High Performance Sport – The T.O.P. Approach

    Updated: 2010-07-13 06:33:01
      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 Evolution of Leadership in Professional Sport: from coach to captain to collaboration.

    Updated: 2010-07-13 01:49:30
    leadership blvd_excellence way from Crestock Stock Photos Leadership? Lots of people talk about where leadership in sport is now. But where did our current thinking on leadership come from? How did leadership in professional sport evolve? And more importantly, where is leadership in professional sport going? In the old days, there were no leadership teams [...]

  • Important Message to All South African Sports Coaching Brain fans

    Updated: 2010-07-13 01:49:29
    I will be in South Africa from November 15th – November 29th 2010. Hope to catch up with all my friends, colleagues and Sports Coaching Brain fans while I am there. Wayne Goldsmith © 2010, Sports Coaching Brain. All rights reserved. This post can not be reproduced in full or in part without the expressed [...]

  • New Mobile Theme for Sports Coaching Brain.

    Updated: 2010-07-07 03:50:45
    Now you can access all your favourite Sports Coaching Brain articles from your Smartphone using our new Mobile Theme. Try it now from your I-phone, Blackberry or Android phone. The Sports Coaching Brain – anytime, anywhere and for anyone who is interested in sport, coaching, high performance and being the best. WG © 2010, Sports Coaching [...]

  • End of Season Performance Reviews – Making a difference or Making a mistake

    Updated: 2010-07-06 08:12:10
    Spring is the season of re-newal, re-birth and re-generation. And for many Australian sports – AFL, Rugby League, Netball and Rugby – spring is also the season of the Performance Re-view. That time when players, coaches, management and staff sit down together and try to work out what went wrong, what went right and how to do [...]

  • Coach = Athlete = Coach

    Updated: 2010-07-06 08:12:09
    Apply the same standards and expectations to yourself as you expect from your athletes. Apply the same standards and expectations to yourself as you expect from your athletes. One more time, just in case you didn’t get it. Apply the same standards and expectations to yourself as you expect from your athletes. Think about it. [...]

  • Football: The Beautiful Game is a Terrible Shame.

    Updated: 2010-07-06 08:12:08
    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 [...]

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