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A PICTURE
OF SUCCESS
Using visual management to coach team performance
By Don Arp, Jr., contributing writer
Mastery of performance data in sports spells the
difference in everything from budget management
to recruitment and winning championships. While
robust statistical analysis has a role in managing team
performance, simpler tools provide an advantage by
making performance assessment quickly accessible.
These methods, part of visual management found in
process improvement, provide performance-at-a-glance
insights that can guide player development, practices, and
game strategy by focusing on critical operational metrics
and tuning out data static.
Sports and process improvement
A football team is a factory. It's one that processes
points, stops points and produces wins. This structure
makes it possible to apply process improvement
techniques from Lean, Six Sigma, Lean Six Sigma,
Agile or Total Quality Management (TQM) to a team's
performance.
For example, Villanova University notes, " Just as Six
Sigma can be implemented to improve efficiency and trim
out unnecessary waste in industries such as healthcare
and manufacturing, it can also be applied to an athlete
or sports team seeking to maximize performance or
find an optimal training regimen. " At its core, process
improvement can be as simple as recording results and
modifying actions to improve those results. A tested
approach to monitoring performance and addressing
issues involves the practice of visual management.
What is visual management?
Visual management is used everywhere from factories
to hospitals and accounting firms. Visual management
experts Stewart Liff and Pamela Ashley Posey define it as
" a system for organizational improvement that can be used
in almost any type of organization to focus attention on
what is important and to improve performance across the
board. " Framed another way by Christopher Lourens, visual
This QDIP chart can help football coaches track specific goals and metrics that contribute to winning. Highlight the boxes green
(goal made) or red (goal missed), while tracking the cause and how your team will take action.
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