Coaches Corner

Interesting to see the Club by Club rankings for Brownlow Votes last night.  The top 4 clubs in votes were the top 4 clubs in the competition at the end of the finals, with the bottom end of the voting reflecting results very closely as well.

Club Brownlow Finish FinalSYDNEY95Grand FinalHAWTHORN92Grand FinalADELAIDE883Preliminary FinalCOLLINGWOOD853Preliminary FinalRICHMOND8312WEST COAST EAGLES835Semi FinalGEELONG797Elimination FinalCARLTON7610FREMANTLE755Semi FinalST KILDA739NORTH MELBOURNE697Elimination FinalESSENDON6311BRISBANE LIONS5513GOLD COAST4317PORT ADELAIDE4014WESTERN BULLDOGS4015MELBOURNE2716GWS GIANTS2218
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Planning is important.  That's (fairly) self-evident.  Planning implies that there is some logical structure  and movement towards an outcome, that thought has been put into both the outcome and the process.  This all makes sense.  But what I have been wondering about is where documenting the plan fits.

I was talking about this to a friend who runs a web design company and he mentioned Agile Management, which got me thinking about a concept called 'Agile Coaching'.

The first thing to mention here is my belief that just because you invent a name for something doesn't mean you were the first person to do it, nor that you are an expert at it.  The second thing to mention is that there are many times where I have 'invented' something only to find out that 100s (1000s?) of people had 'invented' it before.

Now for a story:  I was talking to a multiple World Championship winning coach about training plans.  He said that, yes, people were always asking for his…