There are many different opinions about what the best formation is for teams that play in a youth under 11 league. Typically these leagues will feature seven field players and the goalie, and the question is what formation will allow us to achieve our goals? A coach would be well served to sort out his […]
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Youth soccer coaching: preparing your halftime speech
Image via Wikipedia It should be the goal of every soccer coach to develop players who take personal responsibility for their play and the play of their team throughout the game. In soccer, however, sometimes it is too easy for the adult coach to become the dominant personality on the side of the field and […]
Youth soccer coaching: improving the confidence of your individual players with 1000 touches a day
Image by Getty Images via Daylife There is a tendency in American youth soccer to emphasize winning and losing at all costs and at the earliest ages. This tendency should be combated in order to develop players who have the emotional reselling is to try things out and who have an innate love of the […]
appreciative intelligence improves youth soccer coaching
Image via Wikipedia Coaches must be concerned with the development of their players both on the field and off the field. In order to build strong young girls who can stand on their own 2 feet in life, we can leverage the insights from the field of positive psychology and specifically appreciative intelligence. Appreciative intelligence […]
Reflecting on surveys for organizational feedback
Image via Wikipedia Discuss the usefulness and limitations of survey feedback. What are the key issues/problems the OD practitioner has to be aware of while feeding back data? Usefulness of survey feedback (when it is effective) (Cummings & Worley, 2009, pp141-2): Motivation to work with the data: organization members have to believe in the purpose […]
Haitian Women’s national soccer team needs help
Image via Wikipedia This is a request for help to me that came from a close, personal friend of mine, Gaspard D’alexis, that I feel compelled to share with you. Gaspard is the coach of the Omega Soccer Club here in Kansas City, and he is a pure and gentle soul, who has answered the […]
Reflections on the draft
Image via Wikipedia The Volunteer Army concept allows our citizens to offload the risk to certain economic classes and remove personal interest in the effects of foreign policy. Intuitively, I’d guess that those who rise to positions of policy making are least likely to have served in the military and lack a visceral connection to […]
Erasmus: the last educated man?
Image via Wikipedia There are some who say that Erasmus was the last man about whom it could be said that he knew all that there was to know (available at the time). Ever since then the amount of knowledge being developed daily is increasing more rapidly than our ability to find, assess and add […]
Military Acquisition: a political process?
Image via Wikipedia If acquisition is a political process (and it should be since the military is subordinate to the civilian, AND is in support of the values of the political system), then effectiveness is probably more important than efficiency. Effectiveness is may have to be defined as the “best” political compromise, ie one in […]
Managed risks?
Image via Wikipedia The risks now? Risk of being left behind if the fear was an anomaly and there is now the mother of all buying opportunities: my strategy? Continue to trade intraday with no overnight risk, at my usual levels of risk, in large cap US companies, and broad index ETFs, in either direction […]