Delisted Player Performance Manager - Luke Ball (develops club culture and leadership)

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This is off topic so I apologise in advance, but is Greg Williams still doing some work at the club?
 
Ball is a smart cookie and will eventually find more senior roles in the AFL - Answering Ant's post - With clubs being non-profit, while generating more income each year, clubs have to find ways to spend their money with the ultimate aim of winning premierships, which will see new roles created within the club.
 

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yaco55 said:
Ball is a smart cookie and will eventually find more senior roles in the AFL - Answering Ant's post - With clubs being non-profit, while generating more income each year, clubs have to find ways to spend their money with the ultimate aim of winning premierships, which will see new roles created within the club.
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No they create roles outside the football department which is capped.
It is just an end run around football department spending. His "leadership coaching" of our young players is simply player development. Ball was on SEN this morning and could not totally tell us the ins and outs of his role.
Has nothing to do with randomly creating jobs to spend money, they have another project at Tulla they want to get of the ground that will suck up plenty of the folding stuff.
 
ant555 said:
No they create roles outside the football department which is capped.
It is just an end run around football department spending. His "leadership coaching" of our young players is simply player development. Ball was on SEN this morning and could not totally tell us the ins and outs of his role.
Has nothing to do with randomly creating jobs to spend money, they have another project at Tulla they want to get of the ground that will suck up plenty of the folding stuff.
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SCG REPLICA SIZED OVAL!?!?!?!?!?!?!
 
CBombers17 said:
SCG REPLICA SIZED OVAL!?!?!?!?!?!?!
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*facepalm*

It's sad we might actually need one. With plenty of sprinklers and probably buy some water rights for it too.
 
eth-dog said:
Haven't really read through the thread but glad we're doing this as a proactive choice.
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Just trying to figure out which curve are we trying to stay ahead of here.
 
ant555 said:
No they create roles outside the football department which is capped.
It is just an end run around football department spending. His "leadership coaching" of our young players is simply player development. Ball was on SEN this morning and could not totally tell us the ins and outs of his role.
Has nothing to do with randomly creating jobs to spend money, they have another project at Tulla they want to get of the ground that will suck up plenty of the folding stuff.
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Wondered why he was reporting in to HR - this makes sense of it.

Cannot for the life of me understand the description of the role.

Question - do players have a reporting line? Is the coach actually their boss in the literal, corporate sense?
 
New People Performance Manager Luke Ball was quoted after accepting the role:
"I want to help people perform good and wanna help them do other stuff good too"
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He then shot his best blue steel, flapped his ears and flew away.

Welcome to the club Luke Ball! I hope our people's performance improves, and would not be opposed to having you as a backup mid option.
 
With him reporting through to HR, does that fall outside of the footy department spending and thus outside of the footy department soft cap?
 

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scezza said:
With him reporting through to HR, does that fall outside of the footy department spending and thus outside of the footy department soft cap?
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The thing I read said he reports to both HR and the GM football. I would think anything that is directly to do with the performance of the team would be under the cap.
 
he should name his kid "Aussie-Rulesfoot"
 
ant555 said:
No they create roles outside the football department which is capped.
It is just an end run around football department spending. His "leadership coaching" of our young players is simply player development. Ball was on SEN this morning and could not totally tell us the ins and outs of his role.
Has nothing to do with randomly creating jobs to spend money, they have another project at Tulla they want to get of the ground that will suck up plenty of the folding stuff.
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My guess is Ball's role will encompass mentoring both players and staff - Ensuring the club achieves best practice - Anyway time will tell.
 
TDay said:
New People Performance Manager Luke Ball was quoted after accepting the role:
"I want to help people perform good and wanna help them do other stuff good too"
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He then shot his best blue steel, flapped his ears and flew away.

Welcome to the club Luke Ball! I hope our people's performance improves, and would not be opposed to having you as a backup mid option.
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Reckon he is more likely to have the Dennis system.
 
Player empowerment and a young coaching group with experienced coaching leadership. Something about a values meeting...

Working with GM, People and Culture and GM, Football.

Natalie McGregor said:
Essendon People Performance Manager, Luke Ball, said he is impressed with the leadership and vision displayed by the players in his first few weeks at the Club.

Ball joined the Bombers in January and with over 15 years in football, bringing a wealth of knowledge to the Club.

“It’s great to be here, I’m really enjoying being back at club land. It has been three years since I’ve been out and really enjoying my first couple of weeks here, I’ve been super impressed,” Ball said.

“I’m really impressed with the leadership group. The first couple of weeks you are a fly on the wall, one thing that has really stood out is the player empowerment.

“In majority of the meetings, whether it be footy or otherwise related, it is really strongly driven by the players.

“We had a values session this week, clearly coming out of a difficult few years, we are working towards a period now that will be a lot more settled.

“In our values meeting, all the players and the footy department were invited to be involved and give their feedback as to what it means to them - there were some good discussions that came out of that.”

Ball’s new position at Essendon will see him working closely with players and coaches to guide and assist in their personal development.

“From a coaching point of view, personal development is really important. We have a relatively young, inexperienced coaching group under John, Neeldy and Harvs,” Ball said.

“I’ll be working on facilitating opportunities for them to grow and develop, that clearly links with the players as well, particularly the leadership group and the young, emerging group of leaders.

“I will be working closely with Lisa who is the GM People and Culture, and Dan Richardson.”
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http://www.essendonfc.com.au/news/2018-02-05/bombers-impress-ball
 
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