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Expert Advice for Sports Coaching Success

From One Size fits All to One Size fits One: The Future of Coach Education.

By Wayne Goldsmith | In Coach education

Remember the old days?

Coaches would come along to a Level One course or Beginning Coaching Workshop.

They would sit there for a few days listening to hours and hours of information about “the art of coaching” and the “physiology of sport” and “the biomechanics of sport” and “the psychology of sport” and “periodisation and planning for sport“ while watching hundreds and hundreds of blue slides with yellow text as a seemingly endless procession of presenters droned on and on and on about their experiences in coaching and how “if you ever want to be a good coach you must always…..” and “to be a good coach you must never, ever……”

Well, those were the old days. They have gone forever. And good riddance.

From One Size fits All to One Size fits One: The Future of Coach Education.

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Coaching = Engagement.

By Wayne Goldsmith | In High Performance Coaching

We have all done it.

We have all been involved in debates, discussions and deliberations about what coaching is.

Some people say it is about teaching and learning skills. Others say it’s about sports science and applying a scientific method approach to planning and periodisation. Others say it’s about communication and caring. Still others believe coaching is about emotions like passion or it’s about values like commitment, honesty, integrity, humility, courage and discipline.

To add to the confusion, you get the coaching “zealots” who are promoting one type of coaching philosophy over another (in an effort to create a commercial success from their theories about coaching) who are convinced coaching is about the ABC Technique of Coaching or Homer Simpson’s Guide to Effective Coaching or some whiz bang made up word like Coaching Readiness for Accelerated Performance (I hope you spotted the acronym)!

Coaching is about one thing above all others…engagement. Read more

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After the Games:Let the Games begin….50 Things You Must Do After a Major Competition…if you want to win the Next One!

By Wayne Goldsmith | In High Performance Sport

 

So the Games are over. Let the Games begin.

Win, lose or draw, there are 50 Things You Must Do After a Major Competition…if you want to win the Next One (if you seriously consider yourself a high performance coach).

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Finding the Right Head Coach

By Wayne Goldsmith | In Hot Topics

With all the movements and changes in the head coaching ranks these days, it is worth having a closer look at how to go about finding the right head coach. Read more

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The Performance Clock – The Most Important Concept in High Performance Sport.

By Wayne Goldsmith | In High Performance Sport

I often get asked, what’s the difference between sport and high performance sport.

Read the next 800 words and find out.

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The One Tip to Rule Them All……..”Competition Plus” training.

By Wayne Goldsmith | In High Performance Coaching

Last year I was asked by a regular reader to list my all time Top Ten Tips to enhance sports performance.

Naturally I obliged.

The same reader just sent a new challenge, “Wayne, if you had to pick just one tip: one thing that above any other was the single most important concept or idea or principle to enhance the performance of athletes and coaches what would it be”.

Pretty simple really………………The One Tip to Rule Them All is…………..

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The Greatest Assistant Coaching Article Ever Written (i.e. because we think it’s the only one): 50 of the best Tips on how to be a World Class Assistant Coach.

By Wayne Goldsmith | In Coaching Tips

By Lindsay Gaze, Michael Foley, Dave Claxton, Craig Tiley, Scott Johnson, Bill Sweetenham, Andrew Friend, Keith Davies, and Wayne Goldsmith

Foreword:

Leading international Rugby Coach (and former Wallabies Assistant coach) Scott Johnson and I were exchanging emails about coaching. Scott said, “You read a lot about coaching and plenty about being a head coach, but where is there something written about being a great assistant coach”.

I accepted the challenge, contacted some coaching friends and colleagues and this is what we came up with.

Sincere thanks to Lindsay, Michael, Dave, Craig, Scott, Bill, Andrew and Keith for their ASSIST-ANCE. Read more

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Why Bench – marking is a waste of time in High Performance Sport.

By Wayne Goldsmith | In High Performance Sport

Benchmarking.

It has become one of the Buzz words in high performance sport.

Benchmarking means that someone in an organisation decides to find out what the best people in the industry are doing, learn from them and usually copy what they are doing.

For example, coaches in professional football codes will sometimes visit successful programs in other codes – maybe even in other nations – to try and learn what they do and how they became successful.

Institutes and Academies of Sport and Government sporting authorities often send people to other countries to benchmark systems, structures, programs and innovations.

It seems like a good idea. Travel to see another program, get some instant solutions to problems and some new ideas to help enhance performance - seems like a great idea.

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High Performance on a Budget – can you create a high performance environment without spending any money?

By Wayne Goldsmith | In High Performance Sport

When clients ask me to work with them, it is usually to help them  become the best they can be in one or both of these two areas:

1. Help them to create a sustainable winning culture and / or:

2. Help them to create a world class high performance environment, (i.e. the things you can build and buy).

Although most of the time I get to work with professional sports and elite level Olympic teams, I am regularly asked to work with schools, amateur sporting clubs and part time coaches on a range of performance related issues, athlete attitudes, motivation techniques, leadership development, coach development exercises and sports performance enhancement programs.

Recently a client from an amateur but highly successful sporting Club asked me, “Wayne, we hear what you say about the best high performance environments in the world and about tools like GPS systems, ice baths, recovery centres, the latest video analysis systems and having a sports medicine team available 24 / 7. But we are all part timers. We gladly donate our time to coach the team and we have to fit our coaching around our jobs and our family. Our budget is minimal. Can we still create an effective high performance environment without spending any money?“

Yes, you can. Read more

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Where is leadership in sport going: the future of leadership.

By Wayne Goldsmith | In Hot Topics

First…there were the LEADERS. The autocratic, dictatorial, “my way or the highway” type leaders.

Then came the Leadership groups, leadership councils and leadership teams.

So what’s next?

There is a revolution in leadership coming: the way we think about it, the way we talk about it, the way we develop it is all about to change.

Read on………………….  Read more

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  • From One Size fits All to One Size fits One: The Future of Coach Education.
  • Coaching = Engagement.
  • After the Games:Let the Games begin….50 Things You Must Do After a Major Competition…if you want to win the Next One!
  • Finding the Right Head Coach
  • The Performance Clock – The Most Important Concept in High Performance Sport.

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