talent id (year 2 seminar notes) Flashcards
Athletic Talent Development Environment: what does a dynamic system comprise of?
- Athletes’ immediate surroundings where athletic and personal development take place (Micro-level)
- The interrelations between these surroundings.
- The larger context in which these surrounding are embedded (Macro-level).
- The organisational culture of the club/team.
Environment success factors: Preconditions include what?
- Human (e.g., coaching resources)
- Material (e.g., training facilities)
- Financial (e.g., £££)
Environment success factors: Precondition leads to what?
Process
Environment success factors: Process includes what?
- Training
- Competitions
- Training camps
- Social events
Environment success factors: Process leads to outcomes, what are the 3 types?
1.Individual development & achievements:
–Athletic skills
–Psycho-social competences
- Team achievement (in team sport)
- Organisational development and culture
Environment success factors: Organisational development and culture has 3 parts, what are they?
- Cultural artifacts: stories and myths, clothing, building, organization charts
- Espoused values: social principles, norms, goals the organization shows to the world (i.e., what they say they do)
- Basic assumptions: underlying reasons for actions that are no longer questioned
features of successful talent development environments: 1. Training groups with supportive relationships
Descriptors:
-Opportunities for inclusion in a training community
- Supportive relationships and friendships within the group, despite performance level
- Good communication
Opposite Poles:
-Individualised training programmes at an early stage
- Training alone
- Low cohesion in the group or inter-group rivalry
- Performance as a criteria for inclusion
features of successful talent development environments: 2. Proximal role models
Descriptors:
-Community of practice includes prospective and current elite athletes
- Opportunities to train with the elite athletes
- Elite athletes who are willing to pass on their knowledge
Opposite Poles:
-Airtight boundaries between athletes at different levels
-Elite-level athletes keep their secrets and regard prospective athletes as future rivals
features of successful talent development environments: 3. Support of sporting goals by the wider environment
Descriptors:
-Opportunities to focus on the sport
-School, family, friends, and others acknowledge and accept the athletes dedication to the sport
Opposite Poles:
-Non-sport environment shows lack of understanding of elite sport and the demands involved
features of successful talent development environments: 4. Support for the development of psychological skills
Descriptors:
-Opportunities to develop skills and competences that are of benefit outside of the sporting domain (e.g., autonomy, responsibility, and commitment)
-Considering athletes as ‘whole human beings’
Opposite Poles:
-Focus solely on sport and winning at any cost
- Excessive control from coaches
- Focus not on personal improvement but on relative performance level, which devalues learning and development
features of successful talent development environments: 5. Training that allows for diversification
Descriptors:
-Opportunities to sample different sports during early phases
- Integration of different sports in the daily routines
- Appreciation of versatile sport profiles and basic sports skills
Opposite Poles:
- Promoting early specialisation
- Focus solely on developing sport-specific skills
- Considering athletes’ interest in trying different sports to be rivalry and a potential threat
features of successful talent development environments: 6. Focus on long-term development
Descriptors:
- Focus on the long-term development of the athletes rather than early success
- Age-appropriate amount and content of training
Opposite Poles:
- Focus on the short-term success
- Kids are seen as miniature elite athletes- No time to heal when injured
features of successful talent development environments: 7. Strong and coherent organisational culture
Descriptors:
-Organisational culture characterised by coherence between artifacts, espoused values, and basic assumptions
-Culture provides stability to the group and supports a learning environment
Opposite Poles:
-Fragmented culture in which espoused values do not correspond to actions
- Uncertainty and confusion among coaches, athletes, and others
- Lack of common vision
features of successful talent development environments: 8. Integration of efforts
Descriptors:
-Coordination and communication between sport, school, family, and other components
-Athletes experience concordance and synergy in daily life
Opposite Poles:
-Lack of communication-Conflicting interests
-Athletes experience many and contradicting pulls in daily life
