What is Coaching?

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• What is Coaching?

• Workshop 1

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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NZ Coach Approach
Coach-centred Autocratic Instructional Command
style Coach has the knowledge
Athlete-centred Empowering Participative
style Athlete has knowledge Questioning based
NZ Coach Approach Continuum
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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.

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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.

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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
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Some of the skills of coaching

• Planning
• Organising
• Safety awareness
• Building rapport
• Providing instruction and explanation

• Demonstrating
• Observing
• Analysing
• Questioning
• Providing feedback
• Building a team culture

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Key qualities of successful coaches

• Knowledge of the sport
• Caring
• Ability to motivate
• Leadership

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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.

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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
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Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
Heywood Broun, Writer
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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)
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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.

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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?

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Questions to develop a coaching philosophy
(continued)

• How will you define success?
• How will practices and games be organised?
• What are the team ground rules?
• What are the commitments and consequences?
• How will you develop a team or group philosophy
  and set of values?

(Adapted from NZ Coach Development Framework,
2007)
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What are Values?
Values are standards or principles that guide
your actions and beliefs
(Lee King, 2000)
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Values are

• contributed to life experiences and reflected in
  our behaviour
• our core values which guide our actions
• the core of character.

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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.

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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.

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Some examples of personal values
Honesty Integrity
Approachability Caring
Courage Creativity
Independence Ethics
Morality Reliability
Dedication Punctuality
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Some examples of team values
Loyalty Conscientiousness
Competitiveness Fairness
Inclusion Winning mentality
Collaboration Equality
Understanding others Listening

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Some examples of cultural values
Bi-cultural understanding
Regionalties
Family/whanau
Understanding of diversity
Faith
Tradition
Respect for the environment
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