Coaching- Core Coaching Skills

Effective Coaching

  • “The consistent application of integrated professional, interpersonal and intrapersonal knowledge to improve athletes competence, confidence, and character in specific coaching contexts”

    • Knowledge

    • Philosophy

    • Values

    • Beliefs

 

What is it that Coaches Actually do

  • Teaching

  • Leading

  • Managing

  • Analyzing

  • Formal

  • Non-formal

  • Informational acquisition

 

Teaching Skills

  • Skills to help athletes learn and improve

  1. Setting up and standing back

    • Designing activities

    • Being patient to wait for teachable moments

    • Focus on a specific theme

  2. Explaining

    • Reverse

    • Focus on a few points

    • Use clear language

    • Explain what to do

    • Create mental pictures using vivid language

  3. Demonstrating

    • Showing and correcting

    • Are you best situated

    • What part of the movement are you showing

    • Which cues can you use

    • Is the level of difficulty appropriate 

  4. Questioning and listening

    • Engaging in different collection methods

    • Actively listen

    • Prepare open questions that encourage learning

  5. Providing feedback

    • Frequent vs. Infrequent

    • Blocked vs. Intermittent

    • Immediate vs delayed

    • Specific vs unspecific

  6. Differentiating

    • Setting activities up to accommodate different stages of learning

  7. Designing activities

    • Appropriate

    • Goals

    • Learning outcomes

 

 

Management Skills

  • Strategizing

    • Vision and mission

    • Philosophy and values

    • Gaps analysis

      • Mission- a single sentence of very short paragraph that is used by an organization to explain its existence, what it does and for whom 

      • Vision- a single sentence that defines the desires image or legacy of an organisation at a point, far into the future

  • Setting goals

    • Dreams

    • Outcomes

      • The end result

    • Performance

      • Standards/ results

    • Process

      • Behaviour- strat

  • Planning

  • Organization

    • Team maintenance

    • Practice envournment

      • Practice

      • Equipment

      • Attendance

      • Risk

    • Competitions

  • Modelling

    • You are the role model of the team

      • Professionalism

      • Adherence to norms

      • Respect and trust

  • Communication

    • Building rapport

    • Opening a two-way channel

    • Timing and frequency

  • Applying emotional intelligence

    • Cultivating self-awareness

    • Understanding others

    • Practicing empathy

  • Motivating

    • Self-determination theory- competence, relatedness autonomy

    • Achievement goal theory- process vs outcome

    • Challenge vs threat mindset

    • Growth mindset

  • Building psychological safety

    • Understanding backgrounds of athletes

    • Practicing cultural competence

    • Leading in an inclusive fashion

    • Prevention strategies against building and discrimination

  • Analytical Skills

    • Observing

    • Analyzing

    • Evaluating

    • Self-monitoring