World Class Coaching System for Athlete Development

1. World Class Coaching System for Athlete Development Coach Development Seminar Robin Gregg 26th January 2014

3. Australian Institute of Sport 2013

4. High Performance Gold Mines Ankerson

6. South Korea

7. Kingston, Jamica

9. Brazil

10. 2010/11 Champions League

11. High Performance Gold Mines Ankerson

12. UnderstandTalent • Nature v Nurture (G v E) • Nature + Nurture (G + E) Or Adapted from David Schenk G Human Potential E

13. Performance Potential

14. Performance Potential

15. Performance Potential

16. Iceberg principle Current performance Mindset, motivations, values and background

17. Talent that shouts and talent that whispers! • “it isn’t difficult to identify talent like Usan Bolt. Anybody could see that he had huge potential when he was sixteen. The real challenge is to identify the potential in something currently ordinary that hasn’t flourished yet” Stephen Francis, Head Coach the MVP Track and Field Club

18. Kingston, Jamica

19. Understanding talent • Don’t stereotype or adopt a narrow minded approach to your search for talent; • Don’t always play safe – understand what is behind the performance; • Understand what is required to drive success;

20. Understanding Talent • Know the critical factors; • In-depth understanding of potential; • Understand the reasons for success; • Talent that shouts and talent that whispers…..

21. Practice

22. Athlete Development Baker & Cobley (2008)

23. Paradox of Choice “if you want take the island then burn your boats” Must fully commit and engage in deliberate/deep practice

24. Developmental Model of Sport Participation Intro. To sport Peak Performance Cote et al (2008)

25. Mindset ? Growth v Fixed Get better or look good (Carol Dweck)

26. Mindset • “the art of a successful mindset is to view your victories as a beginning and not as a conclusion” Stephen Francis “improvement is not inside your comfort zone”

27. What’s common? • No self-imposed limits; • Don’t apply standard models – focus on the unique requirements of each player; • Understand the environment;

28. Environments • Social environment; • Performance environment designed to make players good not make them comfortable;

29. Philosophy No rigid philosophy – flexibility in approach Both a devil and an angel Enormously ambitious

30. Backstage Role • “a good coach knows that its not about him, its about his athletes” SentayehuEshetu “inhale more then you exhale” Colm O’Connell

31. Coaches during sessions

32. scUK Coach Tracking Study – sources of learning

33. scUK Coach Tracking Study – sources of learning

34. scUK Coach Tracking Study – sources of learning

35. Coach Education Effectiveness • “interviews with coaches across all types of coaching contexts clearly demonstrate that coach education programs typically play a marginal role in coach development in comparison to learning from experience” (Trudel, Gilbert & Werthner, 2010)

36. Importance of coach education Gilbert et al 2006; Lynch & Mallett 2006; Werthner & Trudel 2006; Erickson 2007)

37. Learning Situations Jarvis, (2006) Merriam, Caffarella & Baumgartner, (2007)

38. Merriam et al (2007) and Jarvis (2006)

39. scUK Coach Tracking Study – importance of learning sources

40. Top Tips

41. Lifetime Learner • “the best coaches know that when they cease to learn they cease to grow” (Higgins, 2003)

42. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever” (Mahatma Gandhi)