Demystifying Sport Team Culture
21/10/2014
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What’s critical in driving sport team culture? Culture is a buzz word in sport. Coaches often attribute their success or failure on this ambiguous
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Pre-Season Sport Camps – What the Best Teams Get Right
21/10/2014
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly By Bo Hanson – 4x Olympian, Coaching Consultant & Director of Athlete Assessments Today, pre-season camps are
Destructive Sport Team Roles
21/10/2014
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By Bo Hanson – 4x Olympian, Coaching Consultant & Director of Athlete Assessments In previous articles we have discussed the importance of ensuring each of
The Holy Grail in Sport – Selecting Athletes for the Best Team
21/10/2014
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Ask any successful business person or entrepreneur what makes their business so powerful and most respond with some variation of the theme, ‘selection of their people’. Even ask couples with enduring and loving relationships, what makes them so happy together and they often say ‘tremendous selection’! Sport is no different. Ask any of the coaching greats what makes the most successful team and almost without exception their immediate response is ‘selection’. Selection is the fabric or building block to exceptional results on and off the field.
Sports Personality Clashes on the Front Page
21/10/2014
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By Bo Hanson – 4x Olympian, Coaching Consultant & Director of Athlete Assessments Last week, I read with interest the case of Pippa Savage being
Your Athlete’s Value Beyond their ‘Position’
21/10/2014
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When you look at the athletes in your squad or team, what do you see? Do you just see the number on their back? Do you see their technical ability, and how this translates into their performance? Is there anything an athlete can contribute beyond their technical contribution? Have you ever thought about the impact certain players have on the rest of their team, especially when they are not there?
Blame the Coach in Sport?
21/10/2014
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As sure as death and taxes, in every sports season there are winners and losers. More specifically, there is only one winner and then all the rest. For the teams who don’t win, everyone (fans, players, administrative staff, coaches, the list goes on…) has an opinion on why ‘their’ team was not successful this season.
Athlete Engagement in Sport – Do Your Athletes Care?
21/10/2014
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Athlete Engagement is a critical concept for all sports coaches to understand. ‘Engagement’ is a borrowed term from the business world. There, it is a measurement of the degree to which an employee’s heart and mind is committed to their role, leader and company. It is so important in business because engagement has a direct and significant link to profitability. Research shows engaged individuals deliver an additional 30% in discretionary effort compared to disengaged individuals.
Coach-Athlete Relationships: Bond Athletes to their Coach, Team and Club
21/10/2014
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As a coach ensuring your athlete is always striving to gain a 1% improvement in their performance can be one of the hardest parts of your job. At Athlete Assessments, we often speak about the importance of a quality coach-athlete relationship, and how this can be used to improve athlete performance. This article discusses how to improve emotional bonds and engagement, and how understanding these factors improves your athlete’s performance.
Sports Team Culture Case Study
21/10/2014
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Here in Australia, sport is part of the fabric of our society. Growing up, few achievements are more significant than to be part of a championship high school sports team. The relative glory this brings from the accolades of the past students who relive their experiences through to the younger generation of champions, to the proud parents, whose children must have inherited their wonderful athletic genes – everyone loves a winner. As part of my high school rowing team, I dreamt each year as I progressed through the age groups, about the opportunity to win the championship race, aptly named the ‘Head of the River’. What made the dream even more poignant was the fact that in my senior years of school, I was hoping to be part of the crew who would break the losing drought for our school. Not since 1948, when the race was contested in four man boats, had my school won the prestigious event. In 1955, the event was contested in eight man boats and this was the race I now found myself a part of.
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