INTRODUCING THE BOOK
High Performance Soccer Football Club Development Leadership and Initiation for the New CEO
– A candid account of the Whisperer’s Experience and Preparation for Mastering Club Development Leadership – new challenges for creating high-performance soccer/football clubs and a look at educating the new CEO who will oversee the tasks for the clubs.
This book, titled above, introduces readers to the origins of the Whisperer conceptualization of essential management and technical discussion prompters, and club development and performance management principles. It explains the germination of a set of high-performance quality control tools that are highly functional and usable at all levels. The new qualitative performance analysis and evaluation tools will have room for further field testing and flexible utilization, by engaging them in advancing scholarly institutional development practices supported by the SFW Academy consultants.
It takes the reader on an ‘edutaining walkthrough’ of the germination of a new approach to club business, technical, and organizational development. The Whisperer’s anecdotal exploration of the basic nuances that club board members are required to understand, to make a more engaging and tangible contribution, to ultimately enhance high performance in the club office, and on the field, makes the extra effort and reward worth the while of the willing reader.
The Project Purpose
1. To introduce new challenges and solutions for building high-performance soccer/football clubs through leadership capacity enhancement in educational institution development, management, and coaching
2. To ultimately transform soccer/football current club culture into tertiary educational institutions by transforming the learning Environment
Features of the Book of 100 Principles and the PMAS Workbook include:
• Group Discussion Prompters – for Consultants and participants to clarify ambiguous, naturally difficult, or mute topics
• Technical narrative on club development with functional tables, figures, diagrams and tools for conducting high performance
Monitoring and Evaluation for Quality Control
• Narrative for a Soccer/Football Performance Management and Appraisal System (PMAS) also important for training and preparation of Soccer/Football Sports Journalists (commentators, documenters, writers, interviewers) and relevant product sales/delivery specialists.
• Enhancement and replication of high-quality output in all areas of club organization, team production, and sustainability
• Numeration of in high performances team preparation imperatives and principles for successful player development, deployment, and guidance.
The Whisperer’s Mission
• Improving leadership for influencing high-performance development at the S/F club
• Establishing an Academy for pioneering in high-performance club development leadership
• Promoting HR capacity building and performance management for developing high-performance soccer/football clubs/staff/teams.
• Developing a worldwide cadre of super-qualified and certified SFW consultant practitioners for delivering high-performance club leadership training
• Capacity-building training and the implementation of the unique Soccer Football Whisperer Performance Management and Appraisal System (PMAS) at all clubs.
• Promoting scholarship in soccer/football qualitative performance technology and attainment
• Advocating Professionalism in Human Resource Management – contracting, hiring and due process in staff dismissal at soccer/football clubs.
THE BOOK is of necessity, an unusually lengthy preamble to prepare clubs for the single most dramatic/drastic change to ever take place in the history of this beautiful game. The narrative explores the back story and explains the functional contexts of the Whisperer’s book “100 Principles for High-Performance Top Flight Soccer/Football” and surprises with a handy set of Down-Loadable High-Performance Assessment and Quality Assurance Tools that can transform the culture and fortunes of the fledgling clubs, overnight.
The processes introduced in the book will also allow the top-performing clubs to stretch their lead. Its reading is strongly recommended to enrich the spirit and fire the engine of Leadership for the challenging journey towards successfully implementing this Project at their Soccer/Football Clubs.
Each segment of the Prelude can be read and appreciated as a stand-alone and a couple of useful Club Leadership tools are included for trial, according to implementing a unique Performance Management System that will professionalize and improve all aspects of the high-performance game. The Prelude reaches back to apologize for the narrow conveyance of the author’s perspectives on improving the leadership, management, and performance culture of the game at any soccer/football club, regardless of its financial status.
Most of the introductory segments will have some similarities that will facilitate online readers, who in their anxiety to get to the meat of the matter, will want to cut away frequently to get the Principles. But they are advised to return to the preface or the foreword and introduction that establish the context for further motivating their interest and facilitate their better understanding of the project.
The communication of this Project is through a process of some storytelling mixed in with soccer science research findings and straight technical and tactical facts that facilitate Club leadership command. Its proper implementation demands new competencies from the club leadership team; therefore, the low-technology organized training for club leadership capacity building is a necessary undertaking to begin with.
To consistently lead in the replication of high standards of performance at the club and the game, diligent study…cerebral/cognitive reasoning, calculating measurements, and understanding the data collected for comparing performance to an adjustable benchmark… are required of the leadership. Understanding the plethora of performance management tools will allow the Board of Management and leaders to determine and select the required pieces to design their own needs related Soccer/Football High-Performance Program.
Performance Management Information System.
Such information as required can then be more easily technologized for efficient communication, but the knowledge base required must first be established and propagated throughout the clubs, to facilitate training for proper management authority and control.
There are tons of good materials out there that are even offered free but often give very little handle on the rudder to afford the club leadership the ability to navigate into the port of success. Having had the empirical experience of being the first President of a fairly successful soccer/football club, it was quite un-nerving to be leading in the dark, but worse than that would be to lead where the dark could not be seen. The material in the book of 100 Principles covers all that is needed to give club leaders at any level the ability to both see the dark and to see through the dark for more confidence and comfort in successfully guiding the affairs of the club.
Any busy club President who would have the good fortune of having this material read to them in bed would be up unusually early the next morning if they managed to have fallen asleep at all. As for the soccer/football coaches, they would confiscate the material and lock themselves away, only to re-appear smiling after they have felt that their initial panic would have been sufficiently dissipated…by their new knowledge. Henceforth, the only firing will be towards the opponent’s goal!
The combination terminology soccer/football is used pervasively throughout this project. In today’s sports arena the original term football, can mean more than one sport; the term soccer has only one meaning and has emerged as an attempt to distinguish the more beautiful game, by those who ironically created the misnomer of football for their own quite different and not very similar sport.
The term soccer now seems to be widely accepted, although a few die-hard purists still like to think that soccer means the ball is softer* and that it is played at a lower level, mostly for recreation and by children. However, the progress in popularity, technical growth, and development of the sport being called soccer in North and South America over the last 25 years have ensured that this Soccer vs Football argument is no longer on the brewed-liquid drinking agenda. So whether a club is FC or SC it won’t help and it does not matter; the better team on the day must outscore the opponent to win or postpone the bragging rights with a draw. *[this transcript long predates deflate-gate…ha ha!].
The World Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA) is now rightly silent on the matter, so to satisfy everyone without once again setting off the furor, the combination term soccer/football is our way out to keep everyone in the same game.
The Soccer/Football Whisperer will not be busy in the hot seat trying to deal with the human resource management and technical hullabaloos that must come in the wake of this thesis. However, at the end of the match, the ideas generated and synergized from this project will certainly inform, equip, and empower the new CEO and the Club leadership going forward, as well as influencing interactive APPs development and other innovations within the pending soccer/football technologies.
Get your free unedited version of the Prelude to 100 Principles book.
This prologue to the Soccer Football Whisperer’s Project and “100 Principles for Soccer/Football Club Development Leadership and Quality Control” is a highly unusual and valuable Project introduction in PDF. This gift is a free read-only feature of the project. It is an extensive narrative that will both welcome, inform and entertain the visitors about the game, and the genesis and purpose of this Project.
This Whisperer compelling story is this novelette could stand on its own and will be of interest to the entire soccer/football family… The narrative unabashedly pours out the experience and emotions of the Whisperer while it explains the whys and wherefroms of this culture-changing intervention that will demand an equally impulsive response from those who will like it, and as well as its harshest of soccer/football critics.
Surely there will be errors and ideas that may need to be adjusted, but never will the project be ignored by those who start to read. Also, no member of the soccer football family who comes across this pot of goal will ever be the same again…in relating professionally, personally, or socially to the beautiful game!
The main Book, “100 PRINCIPLES FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE SOCCER/FOOTBALL CLUB DEVELOPMENT LEADERSHIP AND QUALITY CONTROL” will ensure positive and permanent cultural changes in the way the game is identified, assessed, viewed, and presented as a finished product, with leaders having championship authority with the results at the club to mandate continuation.
Welcome to the Project …Happy reading over the next couple of weeks!
