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!
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...
To confess or not? This is the dilemma faced by athletes who have used banned substances during their careers. An analysis of the main costs and benefits for the athlete helps to better understand why spontaneous confessions are so important...
