The danger of psycho babble

[bally12]

These programs are cringeoworthy to say the least. So some profit-driven group will come and teach us basic human values like integrity, honesty, transparency, teamwork, empathy, ethical behaviour, positivity, leadership, as if they invented them? P#ss off.

Save your money and spend it on a psychologist instead. Yes to programs like mindfulness meditation, which I think are really beneficial to everyone, not just sports team..most teams are doing that now anyway.

I could be wrong, but my feeling is that these programs may have appealed to Buckley because his personality appeared to lean towards being driven, rules-based, methodical. These traits are great to getting the most out of yourself indvidually as an athlete, however not good as a coach of young men.
Seeing Bucks being "mentored" by Trevor Hendy in the coaches box was a sign we had taken this too far. I'm really glad they are gone. I'm also happy to see Buckley a more rounded, sociable, natural person. Who knows, maybe the "new" Buckley would have kept Heath Shaw at the club, instead of being so hard-line with him back then. Just hypothesising.

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i actually believe that the secret to Collingwood's new found success was my letter to Buckley after round 1.

I told him that the team was playing tight and without daring. They looked like a team that was concentrating so hard on doing the right thing that they became mechanical and very predictable.

I told him to allow the players to let their mojo loose and to play with flair and passion and to have fun!!

I told him that the structures that they put in place are brilliant, but they have to be the base and not the end game. the end game is to let the players natural ability shine through.

The main thing i told them is that you punish lack of EFFORT and not failure of execution. Fear of failure creates failure. It is the reason they miss easy set shots. it's the reason they don't take the game on (and dink it sideways). They were scared of failing.

Last three weeks he has followed the message to a tee. I even think he was seen having fun himself this week.

Message received.

You're welcome lads.....

And by the way, if you are wondering why you aren't as successful as you would like to be in your own lives, this is your answer.....

[RudeBoy]

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[Mugwump]

^ yes, the military have a very clear model for execution. Explain the goal a level up, and two levels up. Then let the people at the coal face, guided by their captains and lieutenants, decide how to accomplish it based on the presenting circumstances at the time. Never punish initiative which is trying to fulfill the commander’s intent.

Prescriptive planning is worse than useless, because plans do not survive contact with the battlefield. The task for the general is to establish the strategy, communicate its implications at the right level, then provide the resources for the next unit of command to achieve. I sense that we might be starting to get that balance right. Buckley might have been too detailed and prescriptive before. It is just a hunch, however - I do not have enough evidence to know for sure.

Occasionally some faddish, combat-ignorant idiot decides to try and turn the military into an encounter group or a slave to some daft idealistic political social policy. Lives are lost, careers mismanaged, and eventually people who know what they are doing are reinstated.

[MatthewBoydFanClub]

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Bailey Hendy on his father, Trevor:

"He tries to go all "life coach" on me whenever I get angry and says things like, "Bailey, your body and your mind are in two different places," or "You're in an energy field, you're in a bad mood." I just walk away or say, "Dad, stop talking to me right now!""

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Cannot set meta predicates.

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[ronrat]

Newfoundland and 5533 diggers at Fromelles may have argued somewhat differently. And ANZAC is all capitals.

Anyway the point is would Monash and Slim have listened to Leading Teams. I doubt it.

The arsehole Alan Jeans at least had it right about sausages. If you don't know about that quote look it up.

An example is this kid at Manly in the NRL. His teammates have refused to play with him. Has a big head and a big mouth and now I think in his third club. These physcho balle experts to get back on topic would have said something like "what do you think of XXXX' The Captain takes exception at what he says and it lingers. Forever.

There is a big difference between say Pendles saying to a first year player on the field "next time I say handball forward you do it " to a young player saying "I would have kicked it but Pendles didn't shepherd". to a whole group.

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[MatthewBoydFanClub]

[MatthewBoydFanClub]

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^ I doubt you read my post above. The military have a clear model of leadership development and strategy execution, (the latter called mission command). No model gets everything right in a situation so large-scale, frictional, lethal, unpredictable and uncontrollable as combat. That is not the point. My point was that the military do not use a leading teams approach as such, because it is not appropriate to that environment. Occasionally, however, some faddist tries to make them do so because it is popular in civilian life. It does not last long, according to my (fairly numerous) contacts in the British Army. My other point - way off topic, but I didn’t raise it - was that much of what we “know” about the First World War is actually nationalistic myth-making.

I don’t know if LT works for footballers. It might. It clearly did not hurt the Swans. It might have no effect. It might be such a turn off for some that they leave (there were rumours that was the case with D Thomas and Heath Shaw). It’s impossible to tell from the outside where it has worked and not worked for Buckley.