Coaching

Introduction

There are no secret formulas that will guarantee success, since all coaches are different and, certainly, all performers are differnt. There are, however, common guidelines helpful to all coaches.

Coaching Philosophy

As a coach you already know what coaches do – or at least you know what you do when you are coaching. But have you stopped to think why you act as you do, and have you asked yourself what you really want to achieve?

Coaching Tasks

What is your job as a coach? You may see your job in different ways, depending on your situation and your approach to coaching.

How People Learn Skills

Careful study and experiment have produced certain principles of learning that provide a reasonable set of guidelines for coaches as they choose their teaching methods and techniques, and as they plan situations within which their performers can learn by experience.

Factor affecting Performance

In this session we will focus mainly on three of these factors: stress, anxiety and self-confidence. The relationship between these and performance is unfortunately not simple, and at times it can be hard to understand.

Before Competition

Many coaches believe that the only way a performer will learn to "handle" competition pressure is to get lots of experience in competitions. However, this neglects some potentially very powerful experiences which are readily available to performers.

Match Analysis

Paralleling the growth of interest in coaching, there has been a noticeable increase in the presentation of "match facts" in the media over the past few years, ranging from basic tables of soccer goalscorers in the newspapers to complex cricket-stroke indicators on Australian television.

What Kind of Coaching are You?

Asking yourself: Try answering the following questions as honestly as you can. Write down your answers, so that you can come back to them later and think about them.