There are few decisions as strategic in professional clubs as the recruitment of the head coach. As the essential link between the sports management and the athletes, it is (among other things) on his shoulders that the success of a season rests. So...
Does the health context temper your desire to travel? Train remotely in our solutions for assessing and supporting high-level coaches: the PCQ and PCQ 360. A 4-step process, at the end of which you will be able to...
Sport Profileo is running a training session on the use of PCQ and PCQ 360 solutions on Tuesday 6 October 2020 in Paris.
Perhaps you are familiar with the 360° principle? It consists of a manager asking his or her professional entourage to shed light on his or her leadership skills through an online questionnaire. The answers are aggregated in a questionnaire...
When recruiting a top athlete, clubs are interested in many criteria that can predict future performance: statistics, age, experience, technique, record of achievement, state of health, and even the ability to perform.
The exchange takes place during a training session involving team sports coaches. One of them explains that one of his athletes came to him and said "he wasn't yelling at the girls enough. Another coach rebounds: "Me...
Self-confidence is a key factor in both well-being and performance. There are many examples of this, both in top-level sport and in business: from the self-confident centre-forward who misses goals all the time, to the...
As in business, the trend in top-level sport is to move from a culturally directive mode of managing athletes to a more participative mode. This trend is the result of both a societal evolution (earlier aspiration to become a professional) and a...
At a conference organised by IBM a few years ago on talent management, Daniel Costantini, the former 'coach' of the French handball team, put his finger on an oddity of language. He was surprised that the media...
The briefing before the start of a match or a competition is a privileged lever of action for the coach: it is an opportunity to create conditions favourable to performance. But what is an effective briefing? It is difficult to make generalizations as the...
