Developing Sports Coaches- The New Way

Sports is inclusion and inclusion is sport, and the same can be said that Sport Coaching should also be inclusive. We need to create more opportunities for people from all walks of life etc to become Sports Coaches. Join us as we discuss this in this episode.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. That is why its time to change the way we recruit and develop our coaches must change, we also need to give more opportunity to greater numbers of coaches to experience high performance and elite coaching across all sports.

The player development and coaching development pathways are not mutually exclusive, you must have both in place at clubs and organisations. In this episode as part of that we look at Coach Development Plans (CDP) and how these can work both across the club, organisation and with individual coaches and how they help to focus development and set coaches up on the development journey.

Retaining and recruiting quality Sports Coaches is something we are all facing across community sport in Australia and globally. In this episode I look at ways that we can try to address this so that we can recruit and retain quality coaches in community sport.

To kick if the second series of Developing Coaches The New Way we look at how its changed with social media and coaching and how communication has changed and importance of education on how to use social media in sports coaching .

Is the Sports Coaching Accreditation still fit for purpose, or has it simple become a cash cow for some sports to use to bring in money. In this episode we explore the need for change to get sports coaching accreditation back to the first principles of education and development.

As a Sports Coach our words really do matter, so it is important to make sure that what we say and how we say it counts. In this episode we explore the importance of good communication in Developing Sports Coach The New Way.

Seeking out lateral inputs from within and outside our sports as coaches or seeking to collaborate with other coaches from within and outside our sports should not be a dirty word. In fact it should and must be embraced because you never know where it can lead and what puzzles, challenges etc it may offer solutions to. In this episode we talk about the Lateral Inputs concept and how in Developing Coaches The New Way we should make a huge part of the process.

The Complementary Skills Set Coaching Model, is all about a whole club/organisation approach to coaching and player development which see's skills sets of coaches across the club/organisation complementing each other and meshing the strengths and weaknesses of each coach to create strong player and coaching development. In this episode we look at this model and how to implement it and go about it.

In this episode of Developing Sports Coaches- The New WayWe look at the idea of training smarter from a hole club point of view. Instead of having teams and coaches training together on different days and different times in there own silo, we instead have a hybrid model where team training remains but we also have hole club training where teams train together on one night at the same location. This hybrid model can help with both Coach Development and Player Development.