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Creating a culture of player and athlete learning
Do you create trusting relationships with athletes, develop a learning environment that is supportive, innovative and motivating, and understand and tackle obstacles to development? Ideally, coaches create an engaging environment that focuses and stimulates...
Supporter and parent management from a player development perspective
A significant contributing factor to player development is management of each player’s support network. We’ve already discussed the influence of parents on player development and how this impacts club culture. Again, we emphasise a couple of points that you may like...
Creating a safe training and playing environment for players
Finally, we’ll cover a few key points for safe training and playing environment for player development. Two key components of this are: Looking after the player’s body Safe clubs, socially and practically (gameday and training) Sports Science and Sports Medicine...
Why coach accreditation courses are so important
Official accreditation is increasingly becoming compulsory for coaches. Why though? And why, regardless of being compulsory, is it important to be developing your club’s coaches? Often we hear experienced senior players tell us they don’t need to undertake coaching...
Providing ongoing training for coaches throughout the season
There is a huge range of options for clubs to facilitate coach training including: If your club has a lot of coaches then it may wish to consider a Create a “Director of Coaching” role. While you may have a different title, the role is tasked with the responsibility...
Understanding and defining your club’s coaching philosophy
One of the very powerful learning outcomes from completing either the ASC or your National Sporting Organisation coaching qualification is that each coach will develop their own personal coaching philosophy. This is so important in developing coaches because a...