Profiling Players, Fitness Assessment, Coach ability

Roger Keenan – Coach Development Manager

Aims

• To examine the concept of profiling players in Gaelic Games• To explore the most appropriate criteria for profiling• To look at tools that might help to clarify the key issues• To explore ways to confirm progress • To analyse the best environment for nurturing players• To examine the role of the coach in nurturing talent• To examine the critical factors that determine long-term

success – coach-ability

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OutcomesOn completion of this module participants will:• Be able to utilise mechanisms which will enhance player

development

• Be able to deploy strategies to check for player progress

• Be able to recognise the key factors for long-term growth

• Be aware of the role the coach should play in nurturing and developing players

Roger Keenan – Coach Education Manager

Coaching:• 2001 – Manager/Gortin beaten in

Intermediate Final Replay/Promoted through the league

• 2003 – Manager/Gortin Intermediate Championship winners

• 2005 – Manager/Carrickmore Senior Championship Winners

• 2001-2005 – Tyrone Development Squads

• 2007 – Ardboe• 2005-10 – Coach/Tyrone Minors(2

Ulster/2 All-Irelands)• 2005 -09 – Coach/UUJ Sigerson(2007

beaten finalists/2008 Sigerson Winners)

Employment:• 1985 – 2003 – Factory Manager• 2003 – 2005 – Tyrone Coaching &

Games Manager• 2005 – 2009 – GAA HP Manager• 2009 – Present – Coach Education

Manager

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Where are we now?GAA Performance Ladder

Provincial Strategy………………Provincial Strategy………………

Under 10 / 12

Under 14 / 16

Under 18/21

Senior

Development Squads

Ulster Under 17

Minor

Under 21

Sigerson

Senior

Provincial

Ireland

School & ClubSchool & Club

Regional Squads International / Provincial County,Regional Squads International / Provincial County,

Higher Education & Development SquadsHigher Education & Development Squads

PARTICIPATIONPARTICIPATION

PERFORMANCEPERFORMANCE

EXCELLENCEEXCELLENCE

FOUNDATIONFOUNDATIONNursery/Participation

Talent ID

Talent ID

Nature verses Nurture?

Current Methods for Talent ID

The Process of Identifying Talent:Scouting/observationTrialsBlitzClub GamesReferral/Clubs, Schools, CoachesTraining CampsCurrent FormProfiling/ Benchmarking (IRFU)

“All that glistens is not gold”

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Task 1(In Groups)–What are the qualities that make a good club player?

• What we are looking for in good club players?• What are the 3 key areas?• Can they be measured?• How can it be measured?• How do we check for progress?

Evaluation

• Self -Evaluation• Coach-Evaluation • Peer-Evaluation

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Key Areas? (Assessment)

Physical Based Assessment?Physical Based Assessment?

Skills Based Assessment?Skills Based Assessment?

Functional Based Assessment?Functional Based Assessment?

Characteristics of Winners (coach-Characteristics of Winners (coach-ability)?ability)?

Training Load & Social Diary?Training Load & Social Diary?

Record KeepingRecord Keeping

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Analyse your Coaching

Competencies

Prompts

Task 2(In Groups) – Discuss the benefits of player profiling ?

• To establish a baseline for team/individuals• What gets measured gets improved!• To focus on the critical areas for success• To inform our training programme for team/individual• To monitor the effectiveness of our training programme• To motivate players & team• To establish norms for physical, technical, and psychological

development• To create a pathway for success for others to follow• To embrace best practice

Interpretation & Talent Confirmation(checking for progress)

• Has there been significant progress in the critical areas?• Compare percentage differences(individual/team)• 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 reset for each player using

their scores

Eg. Team Summary Football 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.

Task 3 (In Groups) - Discuss

• How can we positively influence the number of players who make it to senior club level? Key actions

• List in order of priority

• Are they evident in your club?

‘Player centred, coach driven’

Lifestyle Management

Technical Development

Mental Toughness

Tactical Development

Coach

Performance Analysis

Personal Support

(family / friends)

Core StrengthSports Science

Players

Club Life (ownership)

Fun

Task 4(Coach ability) Discuss!

• What is coach-ability?

• What are the traits of a player who has it?

• How do we recognise it?

• Can we nurture it?

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Profile model (coach-ability)

Constructive Evaluation

Mental Toughness

Mindset

Motivational &Working Traits

Learning Style

Coach

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

“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

Constructive Evaluation

Self - Assessment

Talent Profile

PhysicalMental Toughness

4 C'sMindset

Technical

ConstructiveSelf-Evaluation

Tactical

Mindset

“I want to win all tournaments, but being the best me – that’s a little more important”

Tiger Woods

Mindset

Mindsets

A Mindset is a belief

Fixed Mindset (FMS)

Growth Mindset (GMS)

Fixed Mindset

Commonly found in talented individuals

Symptoms of a FMS:LabellingLow effort syndromeThis is the path of stagnation!Never tell your players that they are naturally

gifted/talented!!Probably safe to tell Peter Canavan / Darragh O’Sé

Growth MindsetAware that talents can be developed/improved

Abilities are build over time – long-term view

“Coach-ability”See commitment and perseverance as a skill to be

worked onAbove average but not always the most genetically

talentedThis is the path of opportunity & success

Mental Toughness

“Without addressing the mental deficiencies we are limiting the chances of producing professional footballers”

Jose Mourinho

Mental Toughness

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

“Winners never quit, and quitters never won”

Confidence & Commitment

“Some players dream of success, others wake up and work hard to achieve it”

Motivational & Working Traits

“it’s important that I am able to establish the right level of communication, this is very important for successful management”

Arsene Wenger

M&W Traits

The brain is like a muscle, the more you work on the inside the more it

shows on the outside

Constructive Evaluation Mental Toughness

Mindset

Language & Behaviour

Learning Style

Coach

Player/Athlete

Guiding Philosophy

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"On a good team there are no superstars. There are great players who show they are great players by being able to play with others as a team. They have the ability to be superstars, but if they fit into a good team, they make sacrifices, they do things necessary to help the team win" ---Red Holzman

---Dianne Holum

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Change your limiting Beliefs!

Questions???

Thank you!