The Sports Sector
Sport is a global industry generating significant income and attracting huge spectator and commercial interest from around the world. The size and scope of the industry therefore, warrants the very best in terms of executive management in order to help ensure that the challenging demands and exciting opportunities are fully addressed.
Q4 Management’s coaching and mentoring programmes are designed to help senior executives involved in the management of sports businesses to apprise the issues that they and the business may be faced with and to guide them to the point where the potential within is fully realised. See the Chart for the Voyage of Sustained Success
Manager Mentoring (Sport)
Leadership whilst fulfilling, can also be a lonely occupation with the leader having limited recourse to a support network in times of crisis. The business world, alert to this predicament, has turned to coaching and mentoring to assist their senior executives, particularly at the time of engagement, with the provision of tailored onboarding coaching and mentoring programmes. See the Chart of Embarkation
Sport has a tendency to ignore this requirement when appointing one of the most important positions within the business i.e. the manager. Often with limited due diligence undertaken and within a very short time frame, a 1st team manager will be identified, recruited and set to work. They have little or no time to assimilate to the culture and workings of the club, the complexion of the Board, the nuance of internal relationships, not to mention the dressing room environment. As a consequence the failure rate is extremely high, far higher than any commercial business could tolerate, and the costs attendant with failure can be punishing to the club in question.
The implementation of a Manager Mentoring programme could make a significant contribution to the chances of sustained success. With the manager being given unfettered access to an experienced mentor, someone who is totally independent and anonymous, someone with whom trust can be established and confidentiality guaranteed, particularly in the first three to six months of the appointment, could be a club’s most valuable investment.
Q4 Management can also assist existing managers seeking new opportunities or aspiring young managers seeking their first managerial opportunity with a breadth of career management coaching and mentoring programmes. See the Chart of New Direction – Setting Sail for a New Career