Sports Recruiting - Players & Coaches
The GELRAD Goal
The GELRAD Operational Development Goal is Process, Procedure, Policy, Technology, Metrics and Organizational Excellence. It is based on improving recruitment of players and coaches. The GELRAD Goal for Recriutment Excellence is developing the roadmap that builds on the best
Excellence Model
The Recruitment Excellence Model that GELRAD is proven in many cycles of experience to accelerate and improve the recruitment process. This is recruitment roadmap contains the critical factors for success used by CEO’s hiring managers and HR administrators who understand the importance of recruitment excellence.
Benefits & Value Delivery
The Recruitment Excellence Model that GELRAD is complete with the tools, techniques and guidance to improve your recruiting process and result for both athletes and coaches. Following the proven model is based on the proven factors that influence identifying the best candidates, bring them on board effectively and quickly and supporting them during major transitions that result in increased player and coach retention. The GELRAD customized approach builds on your strengths and is aligned with your goals and objectives for this season and the throughout your career.- Avoid compliance issues
- Eliminate wasted efforts and time
- Stop barriers created by people that with differing agenda and needs
- Minimise wasted time to bring a new play or coach up to speed and contributing
- Pre-empt and resolve conflict to build a more enduring team trust and accountability
- Reduce time needed to communicate making each communication and metric SMART
- Manage and avoid bad and biased judgement making better decision – analytical and intuitive
- Confusing the needed messages and guidance needed as the team moves through performance stages
- Mistaking what works for one personality style as needed by everyone
- Perpetuating poor performance by avoiding crucial conversations
- Losing a preferred candidate by lack of differentiation and respect
How to Engage GELRAD
Leadership Development and making the E="Q*A" model work for you includes many types of services. Choose one or all of them to get started. Action is needed to build your leadership presence and effectiveness during on your improvement journey.
Goals of Recruiting Excellence
- Compliance in Action – from insight to adherence
- Communications and Metrics – The power of an engaged leader
- Organisation, Process and Procedure: Operational Excellence
- Organisational Alignment and Effectiveness: Aligning people in essential roles
- Behaviours and Attitudes – What is behind commitment, tough-mindedness
- Team Dynamics and Effectiveness – The power of one Team , One Focus
- Recruitment Factors of Success -- Identify and control the critical few
- Needs Assessment and Mentoring –Active listening and empowering the individual and the team
- Hacking Flow – Incorporate selected 17 triggers and manage through the 4 stages of Flow needed to accelerate elite performance
- Team Stages of Performance – Sense and respond to changing team development stages of forming, norming, storming and performing
- Personality Styles and their View of the World – Identify personality styles and adjust communications when they experience fear, shame or guilt.
- The Power of the One-Minute Manager and Crucial Conversations
- Let’s Get Real or Let’s Not Play – the marketing strategy used by Microsoft and others
- Individual coaching
- Alignment sessions (Staff & Players)
- Speakers
- Assessments
- Data and Dashboards
- Communication plans
- Visioning sessions
- Roles and process clarity
- Engaging the hearts and minds
- Hacking flow
- Scientific principles of teams
- Crucial conversation training
Our Commitment
GELRAD’s Sports Operational Excellence vision is to make every athletic department and coaching staff operate as a high-performing business. We focus on improving people, processes, systems, technology and finance. GELRAD has leveraged 15 years of winning in business into our new Sports Analytics practice. While winning is every team’s goal, on and off the field/court there are a multitude of processes to be managed, especially the recruitment and retention of preferred players and coaches. We will show you how the tried and true and the latest philosophies, tools and techniques to improve the process by yielding better results.
Matt Dunn, Odyssey Sports Club Director of Player and Coach Development
“The GELRAD coaches helped us develop a recruiting process diagram that showed us the compliance requirements, schedule and deadlines, roles and tasks. By looking at the Big Picture, the coaching team quickly identified the quick wins to improve and streamline the process and build commitment to deliver on time and correctly. This infrastructure allowed us to work more effectively identifying and recruiting the right players and coaches for our club. It is part of the Odyssey Difference”
Do you have a broken recruiting process? Are you confident that you have the best recruiting outcome? Is there room for improvement? The Odyssey Youth Soccer Sports Club’s Director of Player and Coach Development saw an opportunity to improve the process. This case study shows how working with GELRAD helped them achieve important goals. The process contributed to building s stronger, more united leadership team committed to their own development and the development of the players. This is the Odyssey Difference.
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GELRAD’s Sports Analytics practice leaders discuss how developing a swim lane diagram of the current process resulted in the coaches identifying and committing to meaningful changes. They got more involved and felt more empowered to bring their best to the recruitment process and outcome. They were aligned and taking action in a concerted, game-changing way.
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