SportSparks

SportSparks offers a way for sports coaches to exercise their creative problem-solving skills with AI technology. Through interactive tools and workshops, the service is designed to improve coaches' critical thinking, self-awareness and teamwork skills -- the most important abilities employers worldwide will need in 2025, according to a survey.

SportSparks lets you formulate a challenge statement, then come up with personalized ideas and then create an action plan. The AI technology offers prompts to stimulate idea generation, so it's not just for experienced innovation experts. That should help coaches explore new ideas, consider different viewpoints and think more creatively.

SportSparks is geared for team leaders, club managers and regional or national organization executives who want to improve their teams' performance and strategic direction. You can use the service through a desktop or mobile browser, and you can enable voice input through phone microphones for hands-free use.

Workshops and courses are designed and taught by professors at Bayes Business School, City, University of London, so the content is vetted and evidence based. The service is geared for professional groups that want to improve creativity and AI use in their workplaces.

SportSparks is supported by the National Centre for Creativity enabled by AI (CebAI) and funded by City, University of London and UK Research England, so it's got academic credentials. With its focus on practical problem-solving and creative thinking, SportSparks could help coaches come up with better advice and direction for athletes and teams.

Published on June 14, 2024