Monthly Archive for November, 2012

What we can learn from London 2012 about success

Published on November 30, 2012 in Corsa, Generale and Olimpiadi. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

Interview to Dominic Mahony, Olympic team leader for GB Modern Pentathlon for the past four Olympic Games, where he shares his top lessons from London 2012.

Talent identification and development

The success of Team GB was not a flash in the pan. It was the result of 15 years of consistent investment in excellence that allowed 26 sports to put in place long-term talent identification and development programmes that will continue to guarantee success at future Olympic Games.

Business leaders can learn from this – you need to invest in the long-term success of your organisation through your people. Invest in their development and their talent and find ways to stretch and challenge them to perform. But consider your assessment and identification programme carefully – the world is changing at pace, and the skills and competencies your recruit for now may well be completely defunct in five years’ time. In sport, we also assess an athlete’s learning mindset and resilience – their ability, and attitude towards learning new things and being able to not only cope with but thrive in pressured situations. These are skills that your employees will need as well, and can help ensure the future of your organisation.

Make the most of your successes

It is said that you learn a lot from your failures, but you can also learn a lot from your successes. Understanding your strongest skills is important, so that you are able to use them in the future. London was able to project-manage the most complex construction and event delivery programme the country had ever seen, and did it safely, on time and within budget. We utilised our existing skills as a country to demonstrate to the rest of the world what we are capable of. The reputational impact for our civil engineering and construction industries has been significant, demanding a greater worldwide respect for British construction firms. What are your skills as an organisation and are you making the most of them? Can you capitalise on the skills of your workforce or your products to ensure your position in the marketplace is as strong as it could be?

The role of the leader

The coaches and team managers of Team GB had very clear goals – to define the performance required to win; create the environment for the athletes to succeed, and then get out of the way and let them perform.

(From: Lane4 newsletter)

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Football coach calendar

Published on November 30, 2012 in Allenatori, Calcio and Generale. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

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How to maintain high the team motivation

Published on November 29, 2012 in Allenatori and Calcio. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

Someone asked me what the coach has to to maintain high team motivation after a string of good performances. It’s the case of Inter after nine consecutive victories it obtained two defeats and one draw. It must be said that repeated successes can lead to a loss of motivation and that the task of the coach is to prevent the spread of this attitude. What the coach has to do. First, maintain high physical and mental intensity  during the training. Second, he must talk to the team. The team is strong when it enters in the field with the desire to win and to do this it must not waste even a minute of its workout. The training allows to exercise continuously this attitude and each exercise should have this goal, otherwise we might stay sit playing cards. Therefore, the coach has the time during the sessions to check who are the players who drop in motivation and he needs to stay calm and not excited about winning 9 results, because if that happens he will start to think that the team can win with ease, beginning to be less attentive at how he trains his players.

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Inter have lost the momentum

Published on November 28, 2012 in Allenatori, Calcio and Giovani. 2 Comments Tags: , , .

Inter has been lost. After 9 consecutive wins in the last three games has got 2 losses and 1 draw against teams from the lower level. Probably it was hypothesized a decline in mental tension after the victory against Juventus but this condition is protracted for two more games. Presumption and mental fatigue are the two symptoms that hit Inter at this stage of the season. Diseases commons to those who are not used to being at the top of the championship, the team begins to believe that it will continue to win even if committed less. It’s a real form of magical thinking affecting all the players who takes the field confidents of winning for doing so until the previous game or to have defeated the league leaders. The inexperience of the coach to stay at high level he did not permit to him to prevent this negative state of mind, on the contrary, entirely foreseeable. In fact, after the victory against Juventus, the team would have to provide proof of its value just playing with the same mind  intensity even the following Sunday, but that has not happened and continued to get lost even in the next two. Certainly Inter will recover from this stage but it will have to wait to get a long series of positive results, before to know if  it become immune to this syndrome  based on the presumption virus.

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Styles of leadership

Published on November 27, 2012 in Allenatori and Generale. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Speaking of coach leadership styles  every person in the sport world has developed her own idea of what should be, for example, the style of the winning coach rather than the losing. Everyone has his own personal list of the boss characteristics, which it is a very long list of psychological skills. So according to someone a leader must know how to listen and be innovative, others says he needs to know to take risk and unpopular decisions, for others should stimulate the autonomy of her athletes and serve as a model of ethical behavior to use as a model. Thousands of investigations have been carried out in universities in order to determine the profile of the leader and the behaviors that most often he should show. Having this information is certainly useful as it is to have their own personal list of behaviors that you would like to showed more regularly and frequently. But more important the question is: “Will she be able to adopt behaviors needed to deal with that situation?” Consequently the leader, the better coach is the one who from time to time is able to act as is required by the different situations even if the behaviors required are not preferred by him.

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Unwatchable

Published on November 24, 2012 in Generale and Giovani. 0 Comments

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIePzz_CEuQ

http://blogs.reuters.com/africanews/2011/09/30/must-we-see-rape-in-britain-to-understand-rape-in-congo/

 

 

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Rome: fascist attack to Tottenham fans

Published on November 24, 2012 in Calcio and Generale. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

The Drunken Ship was wrecked during a ferocious attack by a hooligan element of the Lazio fans

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/nov/23/two-men-arrested-attack-spurs

 http://www.huffingtonpost.it/2012/11/23/aggressione-ai-tifosi-del-tottenham_n_2177289.html?utm_hp_ref=italy

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What Lippi teaches to the Chinese players

Published on November 23, 2012 in Allenatori, Calcio and Giovani. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

What  Marcello Lippi teaches to the Chinese players (Guangzhou Evergrande) can be summed up in this sentence: “Basically one, always the same: to understand that each workout is as important as the most important games. And you lose or you win every day, a piece a day.”

(From the interview by Maurizio Crosetti, La Repubblica)

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Stop to the polemics with the referees

Published on November 22, 2012 in Calcio and Generale. 0 Comments Tags: , .

The referees have always been a lightning rod on which to download the problems of the teams and their errors, real or assumed, and are used by presidents and coaches to show their power. Football is still the only professional situation in which the owner of the company acts as the owners of a time according to the logic that “what is not good to me is wrong and I have a right to protest, preferably with strongly and repeatedly, so who needs to understand understands that needs to change.” The situation is complicated when to protest are two presidents, Moratti (Inter) and Agnelli (Juventus), moreover, that they take each other. “Me, me, me”  children say it,  should not tell adults. “We presidents” should say, “we as presidents think that referees make too many mistakes  and we would like …” Instead, to emphasize with anger the referee performances only serves to create additional stress to a category that has a difficult job. On the Sunday following the controversy of the week, it will be difficult for a referee to be confident on the field , despite being a person who plays that role after a tough selection. Stress is not only worn the referees who become less confident about their decisions but also the teams, which in this climate are immediately ready to argue with the decisions of the umpire. In addition, many media take the opportunity to increase their audience and the presidents feel further justified to emphasize their role as custodians of the truth judges broken by the referee. We should stop this way of doing things, because I think that nobody wants a championship like this, where we lose the value of sports and turned into a bullfight in which those who can screams more.

http://www.huffingtonpost.it/../../alberto-cei/basta-polemiche-con-gli-a_b_2165850.html

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Sport dance

Published on November 21, 2012 in Allenatori and Generale. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

Nobody ever talks about the sport dance , than we imagine a sport for the elderly or for those who love dancing. Certainly, it is also this but in reality it is much more. I have seen going into a hall to assist in the preparation of a dance competition. First we were teenagers, adults and over 65 or as it is used in other sports (swimming and running) athletes and master . The competitions are held throughout the day and the couples than winning go through various selections. Each dance has a duration of 90 seconds and each couple must complete a group of five. It’s a complex sport that requires technique, physical fitness, emotional control, expressiveness and perfect fusion between the partners. If any of these elements is missing the performance will not be effective. Requires competent coaches and like any other sport is not enough to have danced, albeit at a high level, to be able to teach beginners as well as experienced ones. For the public is a spectacular sport and nice to see.

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