Coachwise: Your order helps develop and advance sport

Analyse your coaching and deliver more effective sport coaching

You spend so much time analysing your performers it is difficult to turn that critical eye inwards and analyse your coaching. However, you owe it to yourself and your performers not to neglect your own development as a coach.

What are your strengths; in which areas do you need to improve?

Critical thinking, continuous self-evaluation and self-reflection are the skills you need to take your coaching forward. Form a development plan with this handbook. It is the start of your journey towards sports coaching excellence.

• Summary boxes remind you of key points
• Regular activities help to consolidate your learning and allow you to test yourself
• References throughout the text point you in the right direction for further reading
• Suitable for all sports coaches.

• Introduction
• A Process to Analyse Coaching Performance
• What is Effective Coaching?
• Coaching Responsibilities, Tasks and Behaviours
• Critical Analysis and Self-Reflection
• Ways to Enhance Self-Reflection and Critical Analysis
• The Mentor's Role
• Action Planning
• Useful Contacts
• Questions to Prompt Self-Reflection