Overview:
'How to Coach Sports Effectively' forms part of the 'Coaching Essentials Series' (contains the titles: What is Sports Coaching, How to Coach Sports Safely, How to Coach Sports Effectively, How to Coach Children in Sport, How to Coach Disabled People in Sport, How the Body Works in Sport.)
The largest book in the Coaching Essentials range, this resource outlines the key components of the coaching process and contains lots of practical tips and ideas to use in your coaching sessions.
Whatever your coaching style, this book will help you to ensure that both you and your participants get the most out of your sessions. You will learn how to assess your participants and tailor your sessions according to their needs, using a participant-centred approach. Explaining how people learn, this book will help you to understand how best to guide and support learning, through effective planning, communicating, assessing and evaluating.
Updated in 2003, this edition contains an expanded section on how to plan and organise your coaching sessions, as well as additional sections on how to deliver and evaluate your coaching sessions.
Regular ‘practical tips’ allow you to easily apply your knowledge in coaching sessionsReferences throughout the text point you in the right direction for further readingGreat stand-alone resource, but can be used in conjunction with the other books in the sports coach UK ‘Coaching Essentials’ range to provide a comprehensive introduction to coachingSuitable for anyone who leads or delivers sports programmes, eg coaches, leaders, teachers, instructors, development officers, officials, administrators, volunteers, parents/carers AND those with responsibility for the organisation of sport, eg national governing bodies, local authorities, centre managers, sports clubs |
Contents:- Introduction
- Planning coaching sessions
How to plan
Knowing your participants
- Delivering coaching sessions
Creating a safe coaching environment
Coaching style
Developing techniques and skills
Guiding and supporting learning
Organising your group
- Evaluation your coaching practice
Evaluating participants’ performance
Evaluating your own performance
- Where next?
Workshops
Resources
Useful contacts
- Appendix
Coach analysis checklist
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