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5 Minutes with Bo Hanson: Learning from Mistakes Post Game

18/07/2019 No Comments

It’s critical that athletes and coaches have different post game and in game strategies for recovering from mistakes, because in game strategies are all about getting back into the game as fast as possible, while post game analysis and plans are all about massively learning from errors to ensure mistakes don’t reoccur in the future. Mistake minimisation is an essential part of elevating performance. If you’re looking to take your performance to the next level, this 5 Minutes with Bo Hanson will give you a simple 3 step strategy for dealing with mistakes post-game. You’ll have a plan which takes you into the future and a mindset that uses mistakes to leverage performance to new levels. Watch now!

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5 Minutes with Bo Hanson: Recovering from Mistakes in Game

18/07/2019 No Comments

One of the biggest challenges any athlete or coach faces is recovering from mistakes during a game or race. Every game and every competition is full of mistakes, but performances are defined by the ability to recover from these mistakes. In this 5 Minutes with Bo Hanson video, he gives you a simple 3 step strategy for dealing with mistakes in game. On the surface, the world’s top athletes deliver impeccable performances every time, but when you pull their game apart, what they actually have, is an incredible ability to get their game back on track, that ability is a prerequisites for high-performance. Watch now!

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Prodigious Contribution to Coaching

11/07/2019 No Comments

When Georgia Southern University formally acknowledged Hal Wilson’s prodigious contribution to coaching and the community with the Waters College of Health Professions Award for Service, they recognized the thousands of hours that Hal (and many coaches for that matter) spend every year, when he mentors and coaches athletes and coaches, propelling them forward, taking steps alongside them as they fulfil their dreams.

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Shining the Spotlight on the Performance and Wellness Institute

20/06/2019 No Comments

On a daily basis, the Performance and Wellness Institute is buzzing with athletes practicing their verticals, leaping between stations, pushing their strength towards numbers that were previously unimaginable, while rehabbers are moving with increasing degrees and fluidity. But this isn’t what distinguishes the Institute, enter Crisa Renard and Ryan Wasilawski, these two Exercise Physiologists and their investment in every individual is what’s behind the success stories that clients are quick to share.

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Exceptional Outcomes, Unexpected Approach

19/06/2019 No Comments

Extraordinary vertical jump heights, split-second qualifying times, personal bests; these are the statistics flying around the floor at Acceleration – the high-performance development centres, owned and founded by Stewart Briggs, located in Queensland, Australia.

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Debunking The Myth of Leadership

18/06/2019 No Comments

Leadership is not anchored to a nominal position or the domain of the select few within a team, according to Sarah Leberman, Professor of Leadership at Massey University, New Zealand. Also a Fulbright Scholar and the author of highly significant research on leadership, Leberman specialises in applying the knowledge surrounding leadership to the sport space and in particular women and girls.

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How Skills from Sport Transfer to the Workplace

02/06/2019 No Comments

Every year thousands of students graduate college, but we’d argue, they don’t all graduate with as many employable skills as student-athletes. The National Center for Education statistics records that in 2018, some 2.9 million students graduated college but, according to the NCAA, only 2% of college students are student-athletes. This makes student-athletes a rare commodity.

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Hungarian Sport Reaches For New Heights

01/06/2019 No Comments

Szombathely might be 15,588 kms from the Sunshine Coast, but it’s home to our newest consultant client, Szabolcs Hollósi. Experienced in brokering change, Szabolcs now has the tools and resources to partner with Hungarian sport on a national level, creating opportunities for athletes and coaches to take their performance to exciting new heights based on DISC Behavioral profiling.

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2019 NASSM Conference

27/05/2019 No Comments

We’re excited to be exhibiting at the 2019 North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM) Conference, in New Orleans and Laren Dyer, Athlete Assessments’ Operations Manager, is returning to the 2019 conference after a successful event last year.

As Operations Manager, Laren is the key administrative contact for many of our clients. At Athlete Assessments, Laren holds our confidence and trust, he does exceptional work with our clients and has a unique and thorough knowledge of our business. Laren’s involved in our product and service development and delivery. He works with our clients to make sure our products are working well for them and sourcing any extra resources to build on the base our products establish.

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Get WISE on a TOUGH Challenge

17/05/2019 No Comments

Coaches are unanimous in saying their athletes are lacking resilience, they’re not as ‘tough’ as their teams in previous times. And, not just physically tough, mentally tough. But, do todays Gen Y & Z athletes understand toughness? Do they know that the mental framework that lets you complete every training session, perform in a competition, and get you through a 20 second sprint are all unique mental skills? Have they got strategies to rely on when things don’t go to plan in the middle of competition? Are they resilient enough to bounce back from injury? Our goal is to get wise on this tough challenge.

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Bo Hanson’s career within the sport and the business sector spans over 25 years, delivering leadership, management, and coach development. In addition to his own athletic career comprising of four Olympic appearances and including three Olympic medals, Bo has worked for many years with coaches and athletes from over 40 different sports across the globe. Bo was also the winner of the Australian Institute of Training and Development (AITD) 2023 Award for L&D Professional of the Year, for his dedication to L&D and transformational work across various industries.

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