What is
Coaching?
Workshop 1
What is Coaching?
It is about
• growing and guiding your
athletes and in doing so
growing yourself
• listening to your athletes,
understanding their needs
and then working with
them to help them
succeed in their sport
• leading others.
Coach Foundation Stones
Through the Coach Foundation
Stones activity you will have an
opportunity to think about
coaching, to define it
and to examine your own
strengths and areas for
development.
NZ Coach Approach
‘Is a philosophy to
unleash the potential of
New Zealand athletes
by a style of coaching
that promotes learning
through ownership,
awareness and
responsibility’.
What will we see from a coach approach
• Learners who learn, coaches helping the process.
• The focus on the ‘how’ not the ‘what’ in coaching.
• Coaching is delivered through quality conversations
using effective questions with no pre-determined
answers.
• Above all else we have moved from ‘coaching sport’ to
‘coaching people’.
• Each individual takes ownership of his/her own
performance through enhanced self-awareness.
NZ Coach Approach
Coach-centred
Athlete-centred
Autocratic
Empowering
Instructional
Participative style
Command style
Athlete has knowledge
Coach has the knowledge
Questioning based
NZ Coach Approach Continuum
Constructing your coach toolkit
• There are different styles of coaching,
from autocratic or command, to the
more empowerment styles.
• Your coach toolkit is built from your
values, style, qualities, skills and
abilities.
Coach qualities
•
The qualities of effective
coaches are really the qualities
of people who work effectively
with people.
•
The key qualities are
interpersonal ones, people
skills.
Coach qualities and skills
Personal values
Self-discipline
Respect
Vision
Communication
Coping skills
Ability to set goals
Motivation
High standards
Leadership
Ethic of hard work
People management
Teaching skills
Interpersonal skills
Psychological skills
Organisation
Self-knowledge
Ability to read people
Motivation
Preparation
Understanding of the sport
Encouragement
Willingness to learn
Some of the skills of coaching
• Planning
• Demonstrating
• Organising
• Observing
• Safety
awareness
• Analysing
• Building rapport
• Providing
feedback
• Providing
instruction and
explanation
• Questioning
• Building a team
culture
Key qualities of successful coaches
•
Knowledge of the sport
•
Caring
•
Ability to motivate
•
Leadership
Coach roles
The role of the sports coach is
•
to create the right conditions
for learning to happen
•
to teach skills
•
to motivate for better
performance.
Coaches may play several roles
Role model
behaving in a values-based manner which can be
mentored by others
Teacher
passing on knowledge, teaching new skills
Trainer
improving players’ fitness and performance
Motivator
providing positive reinforcement
Manager
organising practice, planning for competitions
Mediator
providing advice, settling disputes
Friend
providing empathy and support
Leader
providing a philosophy and vision for your players
Disciplinarian
being firm but fair
Challenger
asking questions, stretching athletes through challenge
“Sports do not build
character.
They reveal it.”
Heywood Broun, Writer
Coach philosophy
• Your philosophy is your set of values
and beliefs.
• It is really reflecting on why you are
doing what you are doing.
“Your athletes are much more likely to become
what you are than what you want them to be”
(Martens, 2004, p.8)
Developing a coaching philosophy
includes
• developing greater self-awareness to get to
know yourself better
• deciding what your objectives are in coaching.
 Your
objectives will shape many of your behaviours
as a coach
• believing in something - the basis of a
coaching philosophy.
Questions to develop a coaching
philosophy
1.
What do you want to
accomplish?
2.
What do your athletes
want to accomplish?
3.
What are the priorities for
all of us?
4.
What are your
responsibilities?
5.
What methods will you use
to achieve your goals?
Questions to develop a coaching
philosophy (continued)
6.
How will you define success?
7.
How will practices and games be organised?
8.
What are the team ground rules?
9.
What are the commitments and consequences?
10. How will you develop a team or group philosophy
and set of values?
(Adapted from NZ Coach Development Framework, 2007)
What are Values?
“Values are standards or
principles that guide your
actions and beliefs”
(Lee & King, 2000)
Values are
• contributed to life experiences and reflected
in our behaviour
• our core values which guide our actions
• the core of character.
Values and behaviours
• Values guide our personal behaviour and
the way in which we interact with our
families and within our environment.
• Values assist us to distinguish right from
wrong and provide meaning in the way we
conduct our lives.
Values and behaviours
• Values sit at the base and
make up the foundation
of who we are.
• Values are our beliefs, the
things we hold important
and the things we will not
give up on when the going
gets tough.
Some examples of personal values
Honesty
Integrity
Approachability
Caring
Courage
Creativity
Independence
Ethics
Morality
Reliability
Dedication
Punctuality
Some examples of team values
Loyalty
Conscientiousness
Competitiveness
Fairness
Inclusion
Winning mentality
Collaboration
Equality
Understanding others
Listening
Some examples of cultural values
•
Bi-cultural understanding
•
Regionalties
•
Family/whanau
•
Understanding of diversity
•
Faith
•
Tradition
•
Respect for the environment