How to Coach Sports Effectively

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.

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 sessions
• References throughout the text point you in the right direction for further reading
• Great 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 coaching
• Suitable 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

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