Using the world’s most popular game of football as a highly visual and recognisable analogy for the best techniques and philosophies in team management and motivation that can be transferred to the commercial world. Here is an overview of our available training courses.

1. Training Options

2. “How do world class football coaches mentor and train their teams to perform to the best of their ability
that our corporate managers find very difficult to emulate in the commercial world?”

3. Dream Team Concept & Principles
Every dream team should have the following:
 Each team member understands the role they play within the team
 Each team member can state the overall objective of the team

4. Programme Objective
The Key Programme Objective for each session is…
“...To provide an opportunity for individuals to review and evaluate how they
manage teams, against key FP-TB principles, to maximise their team’s operational
effectiveness...”

5. Training Methodology
•The training is designed to practice the participants in using world-class football team management
philosophies
•Highly interactive to ensure understanding and implementation in the real workplace
•Delegates will generate:
✓ The actions they are going to implement in their new team strategies
✓ The outcomes they are expecting to achieve with their teams
✓ The techniques they will use to motivate their team
✓ The focus for the team
✓ The engagement strategy for the team
✓ The action plans that need to be put in place to achieve the desired aims
✓ A plan to measure the success of their team

6. Why Attend?
What you will gain
✓ Insight: into how top football coaches
manage their teams
✓ Belief: that you have the tools to
focus and manage your teams
✓ Evaluation: acquire the skills to
evaluate team members according
to a number common characteristics
✓ Understanding: how a top class
football coach manages the
pressures of keeping his team at the
top of their game
✓ Excitement: to use these
methodologies within your own
teams
What you will learn
✓ Teams: How to look at teams from a
diverse, exciting angle
✓ Team Management: How to manage
your team using top football
coaching techniques
✓ Goal Setting: How to set new visions
and goals for your team
✓ Measurement: How to measure,
evaluate and appraise team
performance
✓ Talent Advancement: How to ensure
that all talent is respected and given
its due recognition

7. Grass Roots - 3 Hour Programme
“...To provide delegates with an introduction to the ‘From Pitch To Boardroom’ principles and to explore
their application in a risk-free setting...”
Session Objectives
Agenda
 An introduction to the ethos and
principles behind the FP-TB story.
 Designed to raise interest and
stimulate conversation about what
future work could (and ultimately
should) be undertaken with ‘real’
teams in organisations.
 The fun, inter-active, tactics board
mimics team issues in organisational
life. Albeit this ‘taster’ version is
played in a shortened format
 Introduction
 Dream Team Concept
 Business Simulation:
Tactics Board: Initial Round
 Principles Overview
 Business Simulation:
Tactics Board: Round 2
 Programme Summary, Close & Next
Steps

8. Premier League Discovery 1 Day Programme
“...To provide an opportunity for business leadership teams ( entire or in part) to review their
operational effectiveness against 2 pre-determined FP-TB principles...”
Session Objectives
Attended by business leadership teams
(entire or in part).
Some diagnostics work will be
undertaken, by means of a
questionnaire and interviews, to
establish the ‘pinch-points’ which need
to be addressed in order to move the
team towards working as a Dream
Team. Using the findings from the
questionnaire to focus on 2 of the
principles which are seen as the priority
areas.
Agenda
 Introduction
 Dream Team Concept
 Business Simulation:
Tactics Board: Initial Round
 Questionnaire Review
 Business Simulation:
Tactics Board: Round 2
 Principles 1 and 2
 Facilitated Session
 Programme Summary, Close & Next
Steps

9. Premier League Reflection 1 Day Programme
“...To provide an opportunity for business leadership teams ( entire or in part) to explore all of
the FP-TB principles ahead of identifying one or two key team issues to work on during the
session and within the organisation…”
Session Objectives
 Delegates receive the training
philosophy inspired by the
management of top football teams for
creating that “Dream Team” including
an essential understanding of the 5
Principles.
 Study of case files, exploring the
parallels between football and
business managers, inter – active
activities where delegates will identify
potential strategies for improved
performance.
 Concluding with a short facilitated
session that identifies your own real
team priorities.
Agenda
 Introduction
 Dream Team Concept
 Business Simulation:
Tactics Board: Initial Round
 Overview of the 5 Principles
 Business Simulation:
Tactics Board: Round 2
 Principles 1 and 2
 Facilitated Session
 Programme Summary, Close & Next
Steps

10. Champions League 2 Day Programme
“...To provide an opportunity for individuals to review, evaluate, practice and test their
management of their teams to maximise operational effectiveness against key FP-TB principles...”
Day One Agenda
 Introductions & Programme Welcome
 Business Simulation:
Tactics Board Round 1
 Dream Team Principles & Concepts
 Principle 1: The myth of Self Sufficiency
 Principle 2: Delivering Marginal Gains
 Business Simulation:
Tactics Board Round 2
 Principle 3: Managing Substitution
effectively
 Business Simulation:
Tactics Board Round 3
 Day One Summary and Q&A
Day Two Agenda
 Day 1 Learning Review & Day Two
Agenda
 Principle 4: Unifying Culture
 Business Simulation:
Tactics Board: Round 4
 Principle 5: Promoting effective
Communication
 Business Simulation:
Tactics Board: Round 5
 Business Application - Facilitated
Session
 Programme Summary, Close & Next
Steps

11. Dream Team Concept & Principles
What makes a dream team?
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Football managers have to enthuse others with the vision
Football managers have to work with limited resources
Football managers have to demonstrate leadership (role models)
Football managers have to understand player motivations
Business managers have to do the same

12. Dream Team - The 5 key Principles
Dream teams are created when all 5 principles are brought into play:
Principle 1: The Myth of Self Sufficiency
 The belief that reliance on one person is solely responsible for delivering performance - It’s
a myth!
 Top class teams know how to harness star players to play for the team
 They work together as a team to create situations where the star player can excel
Principle 2: Delivering Marginal Gains
 Marginal gains is all about 1%
 The tiny things which add up to make a significant difference
 Great teams and team managers leverage that 1%

13. Dream Team - The 5 key Principles
Principle 3: Managing Substitution effectively
 The (often incorrect) assumption is that the manager always selects the right team for the right
task and the team selected will get them and the manager through to the final whistle
 The strategic use of substitutes and squad dynamics has a key part to play
Principle 4: Unifying Culture
 Managers have to be more aware of cultural differences and be cognisant of the diversity that
each individual brings to the team effort
 Embracing diversity and cultural differences in teams
Principle 5: Promoting effective Communication
 It seems an obvious principle, yet in football the need to communicate clearly, at speed, to
different people in a rapidly changing situation requires skill.
 Business is no different!

14. An example of the tools we use: Team Dynamics

15. An example of the tools we use:
The Problem Solving Matrix
Information
Skill
Belief
Well-Being
Other People
Motivation
Time
Money
Fear

16. An example of the tools we use: Inter–Active tactics board

17. Business Application - Facilitated Session
Session Focus:
 This is a 2 hour facilitated session for attendees to start to work on whatever team issues are
appropriate for them
 Small syndicate groups , where the composition is driven by a variety of factors, e.g.
 Delegates working in the same team / sharing the same manager
 Working in the same organisation
 Have similar issues to discuss
 The facilitators are around to help you with your conversations and discussions
 Typical outputs could include:
 Revised dream team gap analysis
 Team role definitions, communications plan and team training plan
 Stakeholder analysis

18. 4 Vital Questions
1)
What is the vision for your team?
2)
How do you know that your team understands and shares your vision?
3)
What drives your individual team members?
4)
How do you use their individual drivers to support the team and its performance?
The answers should be on the tip of your tongue