| Although it is always tempting to use the sports coach | | | | The team characteristics of a one in sport and on the |
| as an example for the role of a manager, but one | | | | other side one in business is also hardly the same. One |
| should realize immediately that the manager is not a | | | | team sport or the other requires similar professionals. In |
| coach. | | | | business however a sale steam, production team or |
| The main differences reside in three topics: career, | | | | one focused on training and education in human |
| team and culture. | | | | resources, a remotely similar. In this sense, in some |
| The career of a sport-professional is hardly to | | | | cases it is possible that a manager look similar to that |
| compare with that of a business professional. We | | | | of a coach (for example in a sales environment where |
| often compare these, and metaphors of the | | | | scoring a close is similar to scoring a goal), but in others |
| mountain-climbing expedition can help to show some | | | | it is not; in an educational environment where a trainer |
| similarities, but both careers are two different things. | | | | is presenting a course. Managing a group of trainers is |
| A professional career is focused on offering a | | | | not the same as managing a sport steam of players. |
| productive solution in a business. Some careers have a | | | | Than the organizational culture. This is the last part |
| stand-alone or autonomic characteristic, but most are | | | | where sports and business each have their unique |
| performed within a team and an organizational setting. | | | | features. The culture of soccer is an international |
| The diversity of a professional career -- whatever the | | | | culture, where players are transferred over teams. |
| area of expertise -- requires a complete different | | | | Basketball is different than soccer, but both have a |
| management approach. This becomes visible in the | | | | similar culture. Than the LA Lakers may have a unique |
| personal performance indicator. The sportsman main | | | | style to another club. |
| performance indicator is attributable to the score of | | | | In business however there are also cultural differences, |
| the team and his stake in this (giving the right pass, | | | | but they are more complex as in one organization, |
| scoring, defense, etc...) The personal performance | | | | there are teams that play soccer, basket and handball |
| indicator of a professional is first of all determined by | | | | as if it was the same business game. This is much |
| the business environment the expert is working in. | | | | more complex than the culture of a sports club. |
| The role of the coach versus manager in either team | | | | That's way sports can give an example of the |
| is different too. The coach has a professional (career) | | | | features of management, but business management is |
| background in the sports, but he is not actually playing | | | | much more complicated. That's why the next chapter |
| in the game. The manager on the other hand is. In fact | | | | will start with a new biography, of which you can think |
| his position can better be compared with that of "the | | | | of that of your own business curriculum. When reading |
| setter" in a volleyball game who is somehow | | | | it, think about your own career, the teams you have |
| orchestrating the game. The manager is a setter too in | | | | participated in and the cultures you have experienced |
| delegating tasks to the different team members. | | | | on your path... |