Organising a Digital Athlete Development Plan: Multiple Focus Points, One Goal

Individual player profiles/individual development plans/goal plans - however you want to phrase it - is an important piece to human performance. Fusion Sport's Jack Halley explains the consolidation of this data very well. 

The main goal of a performance plan is to monitor your athlete by setting goals and reviewing at a later date. These plans, much like personal development plans in an employment setting, help to outline objectives sought out by different departments (ie: S&C Coaches, Nutritionists etc) and encourage support to drive better physical and mental performance to reach an end goal.

However when creating IPP's, giving multiple stakeholders the ability to input data and review the main goals of your athletes is a real time saver and efficiency driver for your organisation. The point of having these performance plans is not only for the benefit of your players but also for the numerous departments in your team. Designing individual performance plans is helpful for setting personal goals, review dates and plans to execute said performance goals. You may see your focus is centralised to four key pillars (or similar):

• Lifestyle
• Nutrition
• Physical
• Technical-Tactical

Generally, the best practice is to have individual forms to enter data and then submit to a system where they can be easily accessed by only those who need to see it. Simple data entry forms will streamline the performance plan process and you can create this ideally in relation to the four pillars mentioned above. This, of course, will differ from organisation to organisation but we can use them as an umbrella-term to describe the performance plans.

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