Sporting Excellence Skills & Approach
Best Practice
Sport - A Definition
The Sporting Excellence Skills Approach:-Best Practices Programme
‘I spent 90% of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted’
George Best
Vince Lombardi – American Football Coach Mind-body connection
All coaches involved in professional sport, are aware at a conscious level how the body can affect the mind and how the mind can affect the body.
At its most basic; the mind in sport is the methodology by which a sportsman develops ways of getting into a sustainable optimum state of mind and body for maximising performance.
Sport needs to learn from the professionalism, attention to detail and entrepreneurialism of business’ You want to work in an environment where there are absolutely no excuses.’ Sir Clive Woodward – The Observer 15th May 2005
Mind-body strategies
By using the ROOTS SHOOTS FRUITS ‘Sporting Excellence Skills Programme’ you will learn how to model best practice tools and techniques. When 'modelling' another person’s performance you be able to elicit the strategy used and pass on the skills to others. This will ensure that the mind and body are synchronised throughout the team delivering sustainable performance throughout the season.
Objectives & Outcomes
- To learn the skills & approach for successful Coaching
- To access new sustainable patterns of behaviour & responsesin a coaching enviornment
- To increase options when dealing with different types of players
- To understand and identify ‘Values & Beliefs ’ in a coaching situation
- To Recognise and Model Coaching Excellance
- To master creative questioning techniques that result in keeping all aligned to your objectives and outcomes
- To learn and understand Language Patterns & Techniques
- To become a master in the art of postive outcome planning
- To set a compelling Personal Action plan
The following quotes may stimulate your thinking…
Gordon Smith - BBC Football Analyst, Former Football Player and Football Agent
“I would definitely recommend that football managers attend the same skill building and man management courses that people from other walks of life attend. What we have just now is a total lack of training for would be managers. Football can definitely learn from the world outside, even players can learn from modern management techniques.”
I thoroughly enjoyed the ROOTS SHOOTS FRUITS process. I enjoyed the space where I could attach my own meaning to the learnings of the Mentoring and training programme.
‘Coaching is about getting people to teach themselves and to take responsibility for their own development’.
‘That’s nonsense because motivation is something that has to come from an individual – people have to be self – motivated.
Extracts from the book - And Smith Did Score – the Gordon Smith Story
David Moyes – Daily Mail October 29th 2005
‘It is a biography of early 20th century explorer Sir Earnest Shackleton – an ambitious man famed for his Voyage of Endurance to the Antarctic where he led his Men to safety against failing odds.
‘Who motivates the motivator? I’m always looking for words or ideas.
Tommy Burns - Daily Mail October 11th 2005
‘Talent alone is not enough to end the cycle of failure that will stretch to a minimum of 10 years. He urged them to think for themselves and react better to whatever happens over a course of a game. But any success we may achieve will always be based on a collective unit.’
Colin Montgomery – The Herald October 27th 2005
‘The old adage that the most important distance in golf is the six – inch space between the ears.
‘Even if I had taken a double bogey, I was going to walk to the next hole AS IF I had birdied it’
Note – Colin climbed from 83d in the World to 8th during 2005 season
Andrew Murray – The Daily Mail November 7th 2005
‘I think we can learn from each other, I’m going to meet Amir and watch him train next Friday in Manchester. I’m looking for a few tips about how to get in shape – I just want to go and see what they do’
Note – Andrew climbed from 571st in August 04 to 72nd Oct 2005. 60th as at Jan 06 and now 21st in the World Rankings August 06
Ally McCoist – Daily Record November 11th 2005
‘If Ibrox stars want to know where their problem lies then they just have to look in the mirror.
Frank Hadden – Sunday Times 29th March 2006
‘There was a quiet optimism and self-confidence in the Scottish camp before a ball was kicked this year but translating that into performances and wins is another thing altogether.
It's the manner of the performances that have been so gratifying. I said before if Scotland focused on performances, then the outcomes would look after themselves and that was really the case.