Discover our contributions on Human Resources management in professional sport. Among the topics covered: recruitment of athletes and coaches, mental preparation, development of coaches' skills, retraining of athletes. Enjoy your reading!
Does the leader of a cycling team have to have leadership skills? Funny question ... A leader must have leadership skills, that goes without saying! Except that... The leader of a cycling team does not have a management role with regard to the team members...
Top sportsmen and women are occasionally asked to take self-assessment questionnaires: about their personality, their behaviour or their mental skills. Some find it very interesting, while others see it as a waste of time....
Interviews, self-assessment questionnaires, gathering the perceptions of those around them: there are different methods for assessing the strength and nature of a top-level athlete's motivations. Beyond the question of means, there is the question of ends. Assessing the...
The performance factors of a high-level athlete are numerous: physical capacities, technical skills, tactical sense, mental skills... And what about relational capacities? How are they linked to the success of a high-level athlete? In...
Many methods are now available to assess the behavioural skills of coaches: self-evaluation, 360°, assessment centres, etc. Thanks to these solutions, it is possible to analyse the level of mastery of skills such as emotional management, decision-making ability, or...
In a previous article, I described a model to account for the level of commitment of top athletes to their clubs. Commitment, i.e. "the motivation of an athlete to contribute to the success of his or her club" was described...
The answer to this question is of primary interest to high performance coaches in team sports. Why do some athletes "pull out all the stops" while others "keep their nose to the grindstone"? Basically, what is the recipe for...
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...
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.
