Transcript Roger Keenan Talent ID – Profiling Players, Progressing Talent, Producing Stars 14-18 Years.

Roger Keenan
Talent ID – Profiling Players, Progressing Talent, Producing Stars
14-18 Years
Outcomes
• Where are we now?
• What are we looking for in “talented players”?
• Why & what should we measuring?
• What is an exceptional development environment?
• Assessment/Profiling – What & How?
• The Mental Profile – coach-ability “the 80% in the mind”
Where are we now?
GAA Performance Ladder
Sports
Institute
Ireland
Provincial
Senior
EXCELLENCE
Sigerson
Senior
Under 21
PERFORMANCE
Under 18/21
Minor
Ulster Under 17
PARTICIPATION
FOUNDATION
Under 14 / 16
Under 10 / 12
Nursery/Participation
School & Club
Provincial Strategy………………
Development Squads
Regional Squads International /
Provincial County,
Higher Education & Development
Squads
Nature verses Nurture?
Research
Recent Studies of Track & Field Sports have shown that many
athletes identified at 14-16 are not making it through! Why?
• Poor Talent ID Systems – incorrect criteria – no confirmation
criteria!
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Biological Development (Relative Age Theory) – Physical
(Don’t look for what is but what might be)
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Lifestyle Choices – Priorities
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Poor Talent Confirmation System – no progression/feedback
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Hunger – Some believe that they have “arrived”
Relative Age Theory
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Gaelic Relative Elite Age Theory - some Gaelic players may miss out on a spot at the top level. This is
simply due to the month that they are born on. Development difference greatest at U14/U16.
Even when groupings are limited to 1 year categories, e.g. U15; U16; U17; U18, development
differences can be great. In such cases players born in January and December will have almost a year
difference in their age.
Ulster Elite Squads U16 – 7 times more people born in first 3 months than last 3
3 out of 4 born in first half of the year
Age factored performance
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Taking the elite squad and testing their performance in several areas the result was that
the older players outweighed the younger always proving age is a factor.
Question: Do we take a short term view of what is rather than what might be???
Current Methods for Talent ID
The Process of Identifying Talent:
Scouting/observation
Trials
Blitz
Club Games
Referral/Clubs, Schools, Coaches
Training Camps
Current Form
Profiling/ Benchmarking (IRFU)
Task 1 - Why Profile ?
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To establish a baseline for team/individuals
To inform our training programme for team/individual
To establish the critical success factors
To monitor the effectiveness of our training programme
To motivate players & team
To establish norms for physical, technical, and psychological
development
• To develop a pathway for success – What should a talented
24 year old look like?
• To embrace best practice
Reasons for Assessments
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A Functional screen can be used to assess competence in general dynamic
movements.
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A Fitness assessment can identify general capacities of agility, endurance, flexibility,
speed, strength and power, and relate these to body composition.
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A Skills assessment can identify technical proficiency and bi-lateral transfer in
developing players
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Assessments are therefore used to;
– Establish each player’s strengths, weaknesses and priorities for development
– Help maximize the sports potential of each player
– Monitor team/player fitness progress
– Determine the effectiveness of the training programme
– Monitor individual player response to training/playing
– Ensure that a player is ‘fit to play’
Task 2 – Talent ID Criteria (Sheet 1)
• What we are looking for in talented players?
• Can it be accurately measured?
• How can it be measured?
• How do we check for progress?
What to benchmark?
(Assessment)
Physical Based Assessment
Why?
Skills Based Assessment
Why?
Functional Based Assessment
Why?
Characteristics of Winners
Why?
Training Load & Social Diary
Why?
Record Keeping
Talent Player Profile
Functional Movement
• Used to scan general posture & review of
previous injury
• Exercises used to identify flexibility, mobility and
/ or stability issues
• Exercises include overhead squat, in-line lunge,
double hurdle-hops and active straight leg raise
Typical range of movement from other disciplines (prior
to entry to The Institute)
The GAA Player – poor flexibility and mobility due to over
use and poor programme structure (prior to entry to The
Institute)
Interpretation & Talent Confirmation
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Meaningful changes should be highlighted
Compare percentage differences
Comparisons within positions may be useful
Compare results with benchmark data
Provide individual feedback to players in the
form of a hard copy of their results
• Realistic individual targets should be set for each
player using their scores
Eg. Team Summary Football U16
Eg. Team Summary Hurling U16
Summary
• The initial assessment is used to establish the strengths, weaknesses, and
priorities for development for each player, allowing an individualized
programme to be prescribed.
• This represents a baseline level and further evaluations allow the
effectiveness of the individualized training programme to be determined.
• Although sports performance is multifaceted, improvements in functional
movement and physical fitness should facilitate enhanced performance
during competition.
• For any structured yearly training, the coach and sports physiologist should
decide on and plan all testing dates in advance. Generally appropriate testing
times are at the beginning and end of each training phase, allowing
assessment of the effectiveness of each phase. The coach can then use this
information to plan the next training phase at both the team and individual
level.
Skills Profiling
Agility Ball Control
Speed and Ball Control
Moving Punt Pass
First Touch - Fielding
Kicking for Scores
Task 3 (Sheet 2)
• What are the key aspects of a good training
environment?
• Are they evident in your club/county?
• Which ones are missing?
‘Player centred, coach driven’
Personal
Support
(family / friends)
Performance
Analysis
Technical
Development
Tactical
Development
Coach
Mental
Toughness
Sports Science
Athlete
Lifestyle
Management
Core Strength
The key areas of athlete
preparation
Psychological preparation
Tactical preparation
Technical preparation
Physical Preparation
Lifestyle Management
Profile model (coach-ability)
Coach
Mental Toughness
Constructive Evaluation
Learning
Style
Motivational &
Working Traits
Mindset
Player/Athlete
(Coachability)
Talent that fails
To maximise your potential you need to have the
mental capabilities to deal with setbacks and
successes
“The mind messes up more performances than the
body”
Jimmy Bolt
Constructive evaluation
Constructive
Evaluation
“one of the characteristics of a top player is that they are able to deliver a
genuinely honest assessment of their own performance and ability”
Arsene Wenger
Self-Awareness
Simply put, it means having an understanding
not only of your own strengths & limitations,
but also of psychological functions
‘People with a strong self awareness are realistic, neither
overly self critical nor naively hopeful. Rather they are
honest with themselves’
Talent Profile
Physical
Tactical
Constructive
Self-Evaluation
Technical
Mental Toughness
4 C's
Mindset
Mindset
Mindset
“I want to win all tournaments, but being the best me – that’s a little
more important”
Tiger Woods
Mindsets
A Mindset is a belief
Fixed Mindset (FMS)
Growth Mindset (GMS)
Fixed Mindset
Commonly found in talented individuals
Symptoms of a FMS:
Labelling
Low effort syndrome
This is the path of stagnation!
Growth Mindset
Aware that talents can be developed
Abilities are build over time
“Coach-ability”
Above average but not always the most genetically
talented
This is the path of opportunity & success
Mental Toughness
Mental
Toughness
Without addressing the mental deficiencies we are limiting the chances of
producing professional footballers”
Jose Mourinho
The 5 Internal C’s
Inner Competitiveness, Inner Commitment
Control (Emotion & Life)
Challenge
Confidence (Abilities & Interpersonal)
Inner Competitiveness, Inner
Commitment
“The body should never tell the mind it is tired, the mind has the strength to
out will and
Push the body”
General George Patton
Confidence & Commitment
Motivational & Working Traits
M&W
Traits
“it’s important that I am able to establish the right level of communication,
this is very important for successful management”
Arsene Wenger
Language & Behaviour (LAB)
Purpose is to help coaches gain a higher level of
performance in your players
Through
Understanding the individual by identifying their
motivational and working traits through the
players language
Learning Styles
Both players & coaches need to be aware
Ultimately we are teaching players to play football, if we are not aware of
learning styles can we effectively maximize their learning
“Coaching should enhance learning not get in the way of it”
Learning
Style
How styles of Coaching can
affect learning
Data from many research projects
Told
Recall
after 3
weeks
Recall
after 3
months
70%
10%
Told & Shown
72%
32%
Told, shown &
with your input
85%
65%
Individual Mental Skills
Training
Athletes report, during competition mental attitudes account for 80% of their
success. Few training programs train their athletes to control their mental
attitudes
Mindmapping
T-CUP/Thought stopping
Positive Reflection
Mental imagery
Influencing language
Team Talks/Training sessions
Bio-dermal feedback training
Turning a Skill into Skill Resilience
The brain is like a muscle, the more you work on the inside the more it
shows on the outside
Coach
Mental Toughness
Constructive Evaluation
Learning
Style
Language &
Behaviour
Mindset
Player/Athlete
The Role of the Coach
THE EFFECTIVE DEVELOPMENT COACH
Improving players’
performance through
high quality coaching
Key outcomes of a player centered
approach:
1. Increased self awareness
2. Increased self reflection
3. Increased responsibility and understanding
of their own performance
& development
The coach has a clear
responsibility to the players and the
Development programme to help create a
coaching and learning climate that
must be of a higher standard than the
player receives back in their own club
or school environment.
Effort and commitment are obvious
prerequisites to success. However,
they are not enough on their own; the
players’ development will largely
depend upon your coaching
methodology and the effective
delivery of game related knowledge
and skills.
Guiding Philosophy
“When winning is kept in
perspective sport produces children
who enjoy being skillful, who strive for
excellence, who dare to risk error to
learn and who develop with practice
and constructive feedback.
When winning is kept in perspective
there is room for fun in the pursuit of
victory – the pursuit of victory is fun”
Geoff Gleeson - The growing child
in competitive sport: Hodder Staughton
(1987)