Many children strive to attain excellence in sport. However, although talent Abstract identification and development programmes have gained popularity in recent decades, there remains a lack of consensus in relation to how talent should be defined or identified and there is no uniformly accepted theoretical framework to guide current practice. The success rates of talent identification and deve...

This talk will introduce the idea that talent development is related to learning where learning is the physiological process of neuro-plastic changes in the brain. To develop talents, individuals must move from novice or beginner’s status to expertise levels of knowledge or skills in a particular domain. Learning depends on maximizing an individual’s potential through the experience...

Organizations can lose momentum when significant gaps in leadership positions require others to temporarily step in to fill the void. These gaps can stress organizations, whose people already are working to capacity. Our program employs a proactive and transparent approach to talent management that prevents the kind of talent abysses that can quickly stall forward movement of shortand long-rang...

Traditional talent development pathways for adolescents in team sports follow talent identification procedures based on subjective games ratings and isolated athletic assessment. Most talent development models are exclusive rather than inclusive in nature. Subsequently, talent identification may result in discontentment, premature stratification, or dropout from team sports. Understanding the m...

Article history: Received 9 February 2013 Received in revised form 25 April 2013 Accepted 25 April 2013 Available online xxxx Controversies surrounding nature and nurture determinants of expert/elite performance have arisen many times since antiquity, and remain sources of concern in the present day. Extreme positions on this controversy are fundamentally silly — both nature and nurture are nec...