High-Performance Basketball Coach I WAIS Wheelchair Basketball Head Coach I Paralympic & Able-Bodied Pathways I NBL & 🇦🇺 Program Experience I 30+ Yrs Coaching
Perth, Australia
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In high-performance sport, athletes don't usually walk out of a team meeting or a video review.
They are physically present.
But that doesn't necessarily mean they're engaged.
How often do we confuse attendance with actual comprehension?
Which makes me wonder whether one of our primary responsibilities as leaders isn't the collection of information, but the filtering of it.
Not becoming a human database.
But acting as the bridge between complex data and the athlete's lived experience.
"If you are boring, people simply walk away."
I was listening to Rob D. Willis reflect on his early days running walking tours in Berlin.
If his tour became a dry stream of dates and facts, people literally walked away mid-tour.
They voted with their feet.
Anyone who has sat in a selection meeting knows the weight of making an appointment.
You’re being asked to make a massive decision about the future without possessing perfect information.
You're essentially making a prediction.
When things inevitably get difficult, how much protection is extended to them?
And at what point does that protection pivot away from the coach, and turn toward protecting the decision maker instead?
At what point does a struggling outcome become a reflection of the system?