Great Britain Hockey 93026 GBH Talent Development Framework Booklet | Page 4

Talent Development
Framework
To bring to life Great Britain
Hockey’s Talent Development
mission statement of
“strategically delivering
World leading development
experiences”, the aim of
Great Britain Hockey’s Talent
Development Framework (TDF)
is:
We acknowledge that the
development journey to
becoming a world-class
hockey player is complex,
non-linear and unique to each
player. Therefore, the TDF is
not intended to be a definitive
‘manual’ for prescriptive
delivery of hockey.
To allow best practice
to become common
practice, from early
talent development
to sub-senior context
across GB
The TDF recognises that
development emerges
from the interaction
between the player(s),
the environment they’re
in and the way the
game is played, and
for that reason the TDF
is visually portrayed as
a series of connected
circles (figure 1).
But instead, provide a
guiding framework as to the
experiences and environments
developing players require to
flourish and progress through
the talent pathway, while
ensuring delivery of these
hockey experiences are as
closely aligned as possible to
developing future world-leading
players.
It is our aspiration that the TDF
will enable Hockey across Great
Britain to provide players with
a more systemic approach to
optimizing their development
(figure 1).
GAME
END IN MIND
VIRONMEN
T
EN
PLAYER
Figure 1: The Talent Development Framework
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