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In Pursuit of Excellence: Learning from Elite Sport on Developing Talent Effectively Dr Bill Gerrard Professor of Sport Management and Finance Leeds University Business School. Session plan. 1. “Let’s Go” 2. Ideas session 3. Group discussions 4. Report back 5. “Where are we?”.

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  1. In Pursuit of Excellence: Learning from Elite Sport on Developing Talent EffectivelyDr Bill GerrardProfessor of Sport Management and FinanceLeeds University Business School

  2. Session plan 1. “Let’s Go” 2. Ideas session 3. Group discussions 4. Report back 5. “Where are we?”

  3. Who am I? • Professor of Sport Management and Finance, Leeds • University Business School • Research focus: performance and value management in the • pro team sports industry • Recent teaching portfolio: • Corporate finance (MBA) • Value and performance management (MBA) • The football business (2nd Year U/g) • Qualified football coach (UEFA B License) • FA psychology for coaching (Level 3) • Assistant coach, University of Leeds Men’s Football

  4. You can’t be serious! What can we learn from elite sport on developing talent effectively?

  5. Ideas session: in pursuit of excellence Alternative World Views Re-creating the Street Holistic Approach EXCELLENCE Winning Coaching Goal Setting

  6. What’s your coaching/ teaching paradigm? Transactional Paradigm Transformational Paradigm Knowledge Transfer Detachment Capability Building Involvement Player-Centred Guided Discovery Coach-Led Command Style Instrumentalist Efficiency Expressive Excellence

  7. Performance: outcome or process? Performance as outcome Short-term perspective Quick-fix solutions Summative assessment Having mode Performance as process Long-term perspective Get the fundamentals right Formative assessment Being mode

  8. Total football or 4-4-2? Tactical systems: top-down command Total football: player empowerment

  9. Four corners model of talent development AWARENESS SKILLS ABILITY CO-ORDINATION ELITE PERFORMANCE WELL-BEING MOTIVATION ATTITUDE ATHLETICISM

  10. Mental skills training: concentration Close your eyes. Focus on your breathing. Count each breath until you are distracted. How far can you get? Mental skills training: Motivation Confidence Self talk Professional attitude Goal setting Imagery Relaxation Focus and concentration

  11. Coaching • Individual-focused • Coach as teacher, mentor, motivator, facilitator … • Holistic approach to understanding the individual • Emphasis on positive and forward-looking approach – “who do you want to be”

  12. The GROW model of coaching

  13. The coaching process • Preparation: • Session plan • Objectives • “Fail to prepare. • Prepare to fail” Guided discovery: • Create problem situation • Give players freedom to explore options • Typical structure: • Warm up • Drills • Conditioned games • Free play • Cool down Coaching formula: STOP-DEMO-REHEARSAL-LIVE “Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.”

  14. Effective coaching ASPIRE INVOLVE DEVOLVE INSPIRE

  15. SMARTER targets Specific Measurable Attainable Relevant Time-bound Exciting Recorded

  16. Choose your goals carefully OUTCOMES ARE UNCERTAIN CONTROL THE CONTROLLABLE TASK-ORIENTED INTRINSIC MOTIVATION EGO-ORIENTED EXTRINSIC MOTIVATION PROCESS GOALS PERFORMANCE GOALS OUTCOME GOALS

  17. Target specification COULD SHOULD MUST

  18. But be aware of the language of targets “You MUSTachievethisperformance level” • Transactional • Extrinsic • Compliance • “You CAN achieve this performance level” • Transformational • Intrinsic • Collaboration

  19. It’s not about winning and losing. Don’t judge yourself or the team by something you can’t control. What matters is that you and the team strive to give of your best and to improve.

  20. Dealing with failure • Pro team sports has high failure rates • Average teams lose 50% of their games • Football managers get sacked every 2 years on average • 85% of full-time football trainees exit professional game within 5 years • But few support mechanisms • Excessive focus on winning even in youth development. • But winning is not a controllable

  21. Re-creating the street environment 10,000 hours required to develop expertise Structured coaching can stifle creativity “The street taught us. Messi grew up like this. Messi taught himself instead of a coach saying ‘run from cone to cone with the ball, do this, do that’.” Johan Cruyff The street – real-life, uncertain challenges Streetwise – shrewd; practical; experienced

  22. Group discussions Question 1: Is there a role for the coaching approach in university degree programmes? Question 2: Should we be concerned with all four corners of talent development? Question 3: Could small-group teaching be structured as a coaching session? Question 4: How could we do more to ensure that graduates are streetwise?

  23. Wrap up Group discussion – report back Where has the journey taken us? Thank you

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