Football Behaviour Management

About

The course is organised in such a way that it is as if you are part of a virtual club and already working as a scout for that said club.

In cooperation with FC Twente, we organize a course to help you learn how to recruit the right players for a professional football club. Although the recruitment strategy also works for other sports, during the course we focus on football (soccer).

While player recruitment is one of the most important aspects of running a club, it is also one of the least understood processes. For that reason, we look into five different sciences that support better decision making in the recruitment of players. These five sciences are:

1) Viable System Model. (VSM)
2) Cybernetic Big Five Theory (Cb5T)
3) Organizational Behaviour Management (OBM)
4) Subjective Bayesian statistics
5) Triangulation.

Course leader

Marius Rietdijk

Target group

Anyone who has an interest in finding the right players, scouting them in all facets (live, video and data scouting), player recruitment and decision making in professional football clubs. What you learn also works in other sports. Yet, the focus is on football (soccer).

Course aim

Upon completion of this course students should be able to:

- Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of organisational behaviour to achieve excellent results within a professional football organisation.
- Explain how OBM and ABA can help change organisational behaviour
- Show familiarity with the ABC model and ABC analysis.
- Discuss the main concepts in OBM/ABA and how they can help improve performance.
- Apply the OBM protocol to real-life behaviour.
- Model a professional football organisation with VSM.
- Use VSM to diagnose and optimise a professional football organisation.
- Use CB5T to understand people's needs, desires and goals.
- Understand how people’s needs, desires and goals can help an organisation achieve its goals.

Fee info

Students, PhD candidates and employees of VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam UMC or an Aurora Network Partner €765 Students and PhD candidates at partner universities of VU Amsterdam €1035 Students and PhD candidates at non-partner universities of VU Amsterdam €1140 Professionals €1360