I'll be the first to admit that I know sweet FA about soccer and never watch it but I do read a fair a bit about the different coaching and learning methods used for soccer development at all levels throughout Europe because those things can be translated to all sports.
I read this article and it had some absolute gems in it but just so my non-soccer bias wouldn't creep into my thoughts on this, the first point I made in my summary was "FC Barcelona coach and won everything", just a note to remind me to maybe read this a few times to get all the juice from it.
Here were my other notes...
- Warren Buffet, the world's greatest investor, says that if you want to recruit a leader then they need to have the energy to see the task through, they also need to have the intelligence to be smart enough to know what needs to be done and then the integrity with the ability to be able to role model the correct behaviours
- Energy and intelligence looks good but don’t touch them as they might become toxic to your culture as they will often be clever enough to get away with it for a long time
- Trademark behaviours have to be non-negotiable (humility, hard work, team first behaviours)
- You’re never more powerful than before you start the job because you’ve not lost any games so that’s the time if you have a clear idea of what you want to create to go like a bull out of a gate
- Negotiate for what you want before you start working towards the goal rather than coming in and reacting to situations
- Find your cultural architects (leadership group for on and off the field)
- Spot opportunities to fashion the environment you want such as if you want everyone to stick together off the field then put meals on for them to get to the club early and to stay later
- Identify 2 – 3 keystone habits you want everyone in your team to nail and perform and then apply feedback loops that you measure relentlessly
- He uses the 5 second rule where the idea is that when you lose the ball the opposition are at their most vulnerable for the first 5 seconds so it’s high intensity pressing making life intolerable/uncomfortable for them
- He also focused on possession where if you retain possession of the ball for 70% of the time you’ll have an 85% chance of winning and they used the Rondo Ball drill to train for it (I think I made up a footy version of this somewhere)
- Give players evidence such as “we’re going to measure what your possession stats are in training because we need to retain possession for 70% of the time” then you give the consequence of “If we don’t do that we’ll lose” so you get people to change their behaviour to invest time in training and to really focus and switch on for training
- Create your own cultural symbols that reinforce the behaviours you stand for but don't do things the All Blacks do because it’s not “you” and it ends up as a gimmick - you want more something in line with the North Melbourne/Shinboner spirit mantra
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