How can you measure progress towards team goals in sports?

Once you define the KPI’s, share with the team, hold everyone accountable and track. Track the progress on a monthly basis. The tracking allows the team to see how they are tracking and where you need to focus to get on track. Like real estate, track, track, track

Team dynamics are critical. You need to understand who the stars are on team, who are the supporting stars and who are the bench players. Once you know this, as a leader you can put together a game plan to make sure you focus on everyone’s strengths. The magic happens when everyone knows everyone’s strengths and helps elevate those on a daily basis.

Teams and group dynamic are key element in the success of the team. The dynamic is impacted directly and indirectly by the internal culture and the external factors, such as media, social attributes and trends, results …ect. For promising results, the team dynamic needs to be around solidarity, honesty, clarity and effective communication. How the group is living during crisis and joyful moments can determine how the dynamic is within this team.

What I recently learned is that it’s more favorable to focus on the player’s strengths rather than their weaknesses. Years ago, in corporate America, that’s how they taught you to lead. Focus on the weaknesses and improve them. The shift in philosophy is actually so much better. Focus on the strengths, continue to sharpen the weaknesses, however the strengths are what helps you develop the player to be a stronger contributor.’

Teams sports are about the team to win as a team and lose as a team. However, for a promising achievement, the individual development need to be taken in consideration as we can be great collectively only if every individual is excelling in his role as part of the team. Therefore, individualised development for each play is key to ensure the progression and the improvement of the team’s performance. Each player has his own strengths and weaknesses. with good diagnostic of the individual needs and expectations, individual plans can be integrated in the development of the team for a better impact on the collective outcome by optimising the individual performances.

Tactical plasticity is key for a successful team. By playing against different styles, types of players (different profiles), and in different circumstances (contexts), the players and the team as a collective need to show a capacity to adapt to different scenarios individually and collectively.

Assess-plan-do-review model is a key factor to ensure assessment of the overall progression is done continuously to maximise the chance to intervene timely in the right moment to make adjustments, add challenges, or change things. The operational running of the team can shift according the the continuous assessment which unable the team to be adaptable with clear goal to achieve mid, short and long term.