Developing Performance: Analysis and Event Management

Analysing performance and running events

Getting better at sport is not just about training harder; it is about training smarter, and that starts with honest analysis. Performance analysis means studying a performance closely to work out what is going well, what is not, and what to do about it. This module shows how a performer or coach analyses a performance and turns it into a plan for improvement. It also covers event management, the practical skill of planning and running an active leisure event or competition, from setting the aims and sorting out roles and resources to keeping everyone safe and reviewing how it went. Both come down to the same thing in the end: looking clearly at what happens, then organising to make it better.

Words for analysis and events

Learn these terms before the analysis methods are matched up. They name the ideas used in this part of the course.

Match each analysis method to what it gives

A strength against a weakness

Good analysis is balanced. It names what is going well as clearly as what is going wrong, because both matter when you plan improvement.

What does this analysis show?

A player is quick and skilful but tires badly in the last ten minutes of every game. What does good analysis conclude?

• A weakness in fitness that should become a training target
• Nothing, since the player is skilful
• The player should be dropped at once
• It is just bad luck

Every event needs a risk assessment

Before any active leisure event goes ahead, someone must think hard about what could go wrong and how to prevent it. This is a risk assessment. Walk through the event in your mind: the venue, the equipment, the weather, the number of people, and the activity itself. For each hazard you spot, decide how likely it is and how serious, then put a sensible control in place, such as checking equipment, marking out safe areas, or having first aid on hand. Good organisers also plan roles, timing and resources, but safety comes first, because an event that hurts someone has failed no matter how well everything else ran. Write it down, share it, and act on it.

Pick what a good event plan needs

Select everything a good plan for a sports event should include.

• Clear aims for the event
• People given clear roles
• A risk assessment and first aid
• A promise that it will not rain
• Simply hoping it works out

Order how to analyse and improve

Put the steps of the analyse-and-improve cycle into a sensible order.

• Watch or record the performance
• Judge what is strong and what is weak
• Set a clear target to work on
• Train to reach the target
• Look again to check for progress

Complete the analysis and event facts

Studying a performance to see how to make it better is called performance _____. A good analysis names both what a performer does well, their _____, and what needs work, their _____. Once the weak points are clear, the performer sets _____ to aim for and trains to reach them.

Tap the two parts of running an event

Read these four things about a sports event. Tap the TWO that are genuine parts of managing it.

• carrying out a risk assessment
• giving each helper a clear role
• controlling the weather
• making the crowd cheer louder

Following a sat-nav

Improving a performance is like following a sat-nav on a long drive. The device does not just set you off and forget you; it keeps checking where you are, notices when you drift off course, and calmly tells you the next move to get back on track. A performer works the same way. You do not train blind and hope. You look honestly at where you are now, compare it with where you want to be, pick the one change that helps most, make it, then look again. Each loop of look, adjust and look again brings you closer, and the driver who checks often arrives sooner than the one who guesses.

The analysis and events run

Answer each one correctly to keep your lives. Choose the best answer.

Make a good analysis choice

Read each situation and choose the best answer.

• You spot a clear weakness in a performer. What is the best next step?
• You want the most reliable view of a performance. What helps most?
• You are running a five-a-side event. What must you not skip?

Build an analysis point

Choose the word for each gap to complete one point about developing performance.

Explain analysis and event management

A friend wants to improve at their sport and also help run a school sports day. Using what you have learned, explain how to analyse a performance and how to manage an event.

• Explain what performance analysis is and why it helps
• Explain how to find strengths and weaknesses
• Explain how to turn a weakness into a target and a plan
• Explain the main steps of planning a sports event
• Explain why a risk assessment matters