If you are going to take anything away from reading this article, I want it to be this: Learn more about your participants. Learn more about the people around you. Learn more about what they like, what makes them tick, and where they want to go.
Tag: Coaching Craft
Coaching Newsletter #3 – Merging repetition & game-realism together
There's often a conflict between the old-school coaches who design "drills" focused on repetition, and the new-school coaches who provide actual education toward what players will encounter in a game. But in reality, the two can easily be merged together. You see, game-realistic activities around a specific session topic naturally allow for repetition toward the patterns our players will encounter in the game. In this coaching newsletter, I use my personal experiences as a part-time professional athlete in the sport of trail running to detail how game-realism and repetition can be easily combined together.
Attention to detail when coaching at the elite level
While coaching ideologies can generally apply across a myriad of ages and abilities, there are a few distinct differences. This includes: a greater attention to detail at the high-performance level; a greater attention to position-specific training; and more complexity when adapting activities to add challenge/intensity. I break this down in Coaching Craft – Newsletter #2 – Coaching high-performance athletes. Here is a preview of how you can focus on the finer details in high-performance environments.
Coaching Craft – Newsletter #2 – Coaching high-performance athletes
While coaching ideologies can generally apply across a myriad of ages and abilities, there are a few distinct differences. This includes: A greater attention to detail at the high-performance level. A greater attention to position-specific training. More complexity when adapting activities to add challenge/intensity.
Coaching Craft – Newsletter #1 – Building Logical Session Flow & Rewards
Today I returned to the classroom for my Coaching & Leadership course for eighty+ undergraduate students. For the first class of the new semester, I facilitated a European Handball session on 'switching play', which is a session plan I've done plenty of times in the soccer world. Here were some of the key reflections:
Coaching Craft – Chapter 12 – Final Project
Chapter twelve takes all of your learnings in the course and puts them together in a final project. For more coaching education visit our Coach Education – Centre for Learning.
Coaching Craft – Chapter 11 – Reducing Barriers in Coaching
Chapter eleven is all about how to reduce barriers for your athletes and their families, and how to celebrate equity, diversity and inclusion in the environments you create. For more coaching education visit our Coach Education – Centre for Learning.
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