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...
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...
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...
We’ve discussed the large variety of roles and responsibilities of a coach throughout this series but a key responsibility of a coach is to create a player development program that creates the best outcomes not just at training but also: on competition day throughout...
As we can see from both the research and maybe also a little commonsense that it is an important component of a coach’s role to ensure every athlete in their team or under their care develops their own skills and ability. While it sounds logical it is not as easy as...
On first observation the detail of the FTEM may seem overwhelming, however let’s look only at the ‘F’ of the FTEM Framework, the Foundation level of participation, where most start on the participation pathway. A great example of the FTEM pathway being implemented...