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February, 2010
Creative Coaching: Teaching coaches to be Creative and Innovative.
Quick.
Write down your own list of the top ten skills of quality coaching. What does it look like? Something like this?
- Communication skills;
- Passion;
- Empathy with athletes;
- The ability to engage with athletes and inspire athletes to fully engage with the program;
- Enthusiasm;
- Technical knowledge;
- An understanding of the relevant principles of sports science and sports medicine;
- Energy;
- Curiosity (which inspires a passion for learning);
- A commitment to continuous improvement and accelerated learning.
You could add hundreds of skills to this list: experience, drive, initiative, the will to win, attention to detail, commitment, vision, determination, a strong work ethic…………there are as many desirable coaching skills as there are coaches.
But, in this century, there is one coaching skill to rule them all – creativity: creative coaching.
The question is…...can you teach coaches to be creative?
February 15, 2010 | 2 Comments
Tags: Coach development, Coach education, Coaching, High Performance, sport, Sports coaching, UCNISS
Training Based Research Studies: the Biggest Con in sport since the Muffin.
Remember how when we were kids everyone liked to eat cupcakes.
Then when we got older and a bit more health conscious we were told to give them up because of the sugar and flour and other stuff in them.
Then along comes a sports nutritionist who said “Muffins are a great food for athletes – nutritious, high carbohydrate energy foods”. So we all started eating them again even though they are basically still just big cupcakes.
What a big con.
Almost as big a con as Training Studies in Sports Science Research. Read more
February 8, 2010 | 4 Comments
Tags: Coach education, Coaching, exercise, High Performance, Performance Science, research, sport, sports science, Training, UCNISS
Creating a Winning Culture in High Performance Football: the Building Blocks of Brilliance.
Regular readers of this blog will recognise the phrase “High Performance Environment” - it something that has appeared many times in SCB blog posts and discussions.
A High Performance Environment is more or less things you can buy to increase the opportunity for athletes and coaches to perform to their full potential, e.g. facilities, equipment, sports science support, supplements etc etc ad infinitum.
However, creating and sustaining the worlds best high performance environment is of little meaning if your team is not winning.
A high performance environment: i.e. having the fundamental elements of best practice in high performance sport, is merely the framework – the skeleton on which to hang a winning culture.
You need both: the high performance environment provides the opportunity for athletes, coaches, management and staff to perform to a high standard: a winning culture drives the standards and behaviours that take full advantage of the high performance environment.
A high performance environment provides the potential for success: a winning culture turns potential into victory.
Check out this great Prezi I just presented at the AFL National Coaches Conference – let me know what you think.
Click on the Full Screen Icon on the bottom right of the Presentation screen to get the full effect.
WG
February 2, 2010 | 9 Comments
Tags: AFL, American Football, Basketball, Coaching, Cricket, Football, High Performance, Hockey, Netball, Rugby, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Soccer, UCNISS
