Course description
How does one become a scout? Or a technical director of a football club? There really isn’t a course you can take for that. That is what we want to change with our Football Behavior Management (FBM) course.
This course will combine relevant scientific theory with practical know-how of professionals working as a scout, technical director or player agent. To make sure that the course is both relevant and fun to attend, we organise it in such a way that it is as if you are part of a virtual club and already working as a scout for that virtual club. You will go and find new talent, apply the relevant scientific theories to your findings and present the talent you find to the decision makers of the virtual club.
The scientific part of the course will consist of:
Organizational Behavior Management (OBM)
OBM is the most scientific way to bring the best out of people. OBM is targeted at work within organizations. So OBM is the best tool to optimize the workings of a club. Yet, the same principles that brings the best out of employees of the club, also brings the best out of players and the technical staff.
Cybernetic Big Five Theory (CB5T)
CB5T is the most scientific way of looking at personality. CB5T is a great tool to make sure you deeply understand the people you work with. It is also a great tool to understand the personalities of the players of the club. CB5T enables you to check whether a potential player fits within the team and helps you understand and optimise the relationships between the players and the technical staff.
Triangulation
The Triangulation model of communication explains why you always need three points to understand anything. In terms of football: the player, the manager and the game itself. Triangulation also explains why there are two modes of communication: (a) to clarify and (b) to influence. To work as a scout or a technical director you need both to be able to clarify why a potential player is the right choice and be able to influence the decision makers to make the right decision.
Viable System Model (VSM)
VSM is a cybernetic approach to organizations. As we are already using cybernetics with CB5T it is only natural to also include VSM. VSM is the most scientific way to model an organization and hence also a football club. The VSM model of the club allows you to diagnose the club for known weaknesses and revitalize the club by optimizing its structure.
Subjective Bayesian statistics
A lot of decisions that you need to take as a scout or technical director are clouded in uncertainty. Bayesian statistics is the most scientific way of dealing with uncertainty. For that reason during the course, you learn how to create your own Bayesian models and network to support your decision making as a scout or technical director.
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