Effective Coaching NZ CoachApproach

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Effective Coaching NZ CoachApproach

• Graeme Robson
• Coach Support Manager
• NZ Academy of Sport North

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ON THE GROUND CHALLENGES

• We have typically produced technicians,
  tacticians or physical trainers but not coaches
• Instructors v coaches
• Many coaches are not self-aware or
  self-reflective
• Most coaches are operational not strategic
• Many coaches absolve day-to-day management to
  others
• but my sport is different!
• What drives these challenges?

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COACH EDUCATION SYSTEMS

• Coach Education courses have been about knowledge
• The best coaches are often seen to be those
  with the most knowledge
• Knowledge drives instruction
• Instruction drives operational rather than
  strategic thinking
• Coach Education courses taught you what to coach
  not how to coach
• Rename to Coach Development!

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NZ CoachApproach

• is a philosophy to unleash the potential of New
  Zealand athletes by a style of coaching that
  promotes learning through ownership, awareness
  and responsibility

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The Big Picture
Coach knowledge, Instructional, autocratic
approach
Athlete knowledge, Questioning, empowered approach
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What will we see?

• Independent, confident athletes able to coach
  themselves
• Learners LEARN, coaches only help the process
• Rod Thorpe

Golf Coaching
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Whatness Whoness
World Class Coaches
WHONESS
WHATNESS
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NZ CoachApproach

• Opportunity to lead the rest of the world
• Integration through all levels of coaching
• Consistency in approach
• Relies on Inner Game concepts, Effective
  Leadership, Emotional Intelligence (EQ), TGfU,
  Self Discovered Learning, GROW model etc.
• Recognition that there is still more than one way
  to do things

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NZCoachApproach

• Is the how not the what in coaching
• Is delivered through quality conversations using
  effective questions with no pre-determined
  outcomes
• 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

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• Its all about PEOPLE and
• Give people ownership of their tasks and
  decisions to get their best performance

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NZCoachApproach in action. (using Inner Game
Principles)
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NZ CoachApproach

• 3 Key Principles
• Raise AWARENESS
• Create RESPONSIBILITY
• Create SELF BELIEF

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Focussed Attention(Raised Awareness)
The Cocktail Party Phenomenon
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Awareness

• Gives you discrimination
• With discrimination, comes the ability to change
• Discrimination gives you choice
• Awareness and analysis together are not
  compatible

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Creating Self Belief

• When athletes take responsibility, they know they
  can do things
• Knowing you can do things, creates self belief
• Self belief gives confidence

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SELF BELIEF

• Does not necessarily make you better
• Does make you more determined
• Does make you persevere
• therefore more quality training

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Instructing v Coaching

• Coaching
• Athlete Owns Process (Its all about the Athlete)
• Coach creates responsibility by raised awareness
• Athlete is accountable for his/her performance
• Focus is on LEARNING
• Athlete has more self-belief

• Instructing
• Coach Owns Process (Its all about the Coach)
• Coach takes responsibility athlete not aware
• Little accountablity lies with athlete
• Focus is on TELLING
• Athlete reliant on coach?

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Is there a right technique

• Felix Erauzquin
• Ex discus Thrower
• 1956 used discus technique to throw javelin
  90m, only inches short of the world record
• Felix was 49!
• The technique was quickly banned!!!

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Is there a right technique

• Its biomechanical efficiency
• Janet Evans, Jim Furyk, Shivnarine Chanderpaul,
  Patrick Shannon, Johnny Wilkinson
• What if you know they have to change?
• If Fosbury hadnt flopped and Borg hadnt
  double-handed where would high jump and tennis be
  today?

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Raise Awarenessleads to ownership

• Instruction
• Watch the ball
• Slow down your swing
• Pass to the Striker

• Coaching
• Which way is the ball spinning?
• On a scale of 1 10, 10 being very fast, rate
  the speed of your swing.
• Whos available?

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Creating Responsibilityleads to accountability

• Instructing
• Theyre beating us down the right side. Ricky,
  youve got to get back to cover this.

• Coaching
• Theyre beating us down the right side OR What is
  happening? (Awareness)
• Whos going to take care of that?

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Levels of Feedback

• No Feedback
• Negative Feedback
• Zero Feedback
• Objective Feedback
• Subjective/Objective Feedback
• Subjective Process Feedback
• Ownership of Process Feedback

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To Coach People

• You need to understand manage people
• And you need to understand manage yourself
• Emotional Intelligence (EQ)

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THE IMPORTANCE OF EQ
EQ
EQ
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IQ
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All Kinds of Jobs
Leadership Jobs
Daniel Goleman
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People with high EQ will hold back their
knowledge to get the best out of othersSir John
Whitmore
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EFFECTIVE QUESTIONS

• Compel attention, thought, observation

• Focus for clarity, detail and precision

• Are non-judgemental

• Create feedback opportunities

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EFFECTIVE QUESTIONS in detail

• Ask open questions what, when, where, who,
  etc. (Facts)

• Ask probe questions how much, how often, how
  many, etc. (Detailed Facts)

• Use Comparisons, ratings, scales

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EFFECTIVE QUESTIONS in detail

• Caution Why (Defensiveness, Analysis,
  Assumptions, Rationalisations)

• Caution How (when unqualified, causes
• vague responses)

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EFFECTIVE QUESTIONS in detail

• Ask, listen and observe

• Follow their interest and use their words

• Start broad and then narrow to increase their
  focus

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Teaching Games for Understanding

• Game Sense approach Rod Thorpe
• Players become more tactically aware and
  therefore able to make better decisions during
  the game
• Players start to develop skills in a realistic
  context rather than practising them in isolation
• With thought, the game challenge can be the
  question. (Adapt the rules)
• Tactics before Technique! (WHY before HOW)
• Key is that we have games/activities that
  challenge and involve, and that we have produced
  coach independent learners.

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Game Sense in Practice
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COACHING

• KEY PRINCIPLES
• Awareness and Responsibility

• SKILLS
• Effective Questioning
• Active Listening

• STEPS
• G - GOAL What do you want?

• R - REALITY What is happening now?

• O - OPTIONS What could you do?

• W - WILL What will you do?

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Other Parts of Coaching

• Team Culture
• What do we want out team to look like? (G)
• Whats happening at the moment? (R)
• What can we do to change that. (O)
• What will we commit to do? (W)

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Summary

• Its about the people not the sport
• Raising awareness, creating responsibility self
  belief gives ownership to athlete