Analysing Your Coaching

1. Analysing Your Coaching

2. Workshop Outcomes By the end of this workshop, delegates should be able to: • recognise analysis as a systematic process and identify the steps involved • identify the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of skilled coaching performance • construct a checklist of coaching behaviours that reflect skilled performance in their current coaching situation and then use it to analyse their coaching • identify some of the methods and tools used to carry out observation and analysis and select possible strategies and actions for improvement

3. To analyse means to… • Take a close detailed look at something, breaking it down into its constituent parts in order to: • describe it • compare it with what is wanted • explain it • explore the solutions

4. The Reflective Cycle Experience Experience Description Describe the experience Evaluation/Analysis Explain what was good/bad and why, and compare against the desired performance Action Plan What will you do next time? Conclusion Explore your options in addressing this

5. Task Working in small groups, pairs or individually: • list the knowledge, skills, experience, personal qualities and behaviours of a skilled coach

6. The ‘What’ of Skilled Coaching • Skilled coaches know what to coach to be effective/successful in the situation they are in • They have knowledge about: • technical skills • tactical skills • physiology and physical/fitness training • psychology and mental training • athlete development • learning and the coaching process

7. The ‘How’ of Skilled Coaching • Skilled coaches know how to coach to be effective/successful in the situation they are in • They have skills and experience in: • providing instruction and explanation • providing demonstration • observation and analysis • providing feedback • They have the personal qualities needed to manage themselves and their relationships successfully

8. Tools for Analysing Your Coaching External • Checklist • Feedback from performers • Feedback from other coaches • Mentoring Internal • Checklist/tick list • Video • Reflective diary

9. Coach Behaviour May be Affected by: • Performers’ stated goals • Coaching goals, philosophies and expectations • Aims of specific sessions • Specific situation/context • The coaching environment • Performers’/coaches’ emotional/physical state • Performers’ stage of development

10. Task Using the checklist prompt sheet provided, devise your own checklist to aid your observation and analysis

11. Coaching Task 1 • In pairs, either: • one person coach your partner to perform an effective jumping action from the sheet provided or • coach another pair • Swap roles • Each delegate should record their observations before feeding back to the group

12. Coaching Task 2 • In groups of 4–8, one delegate is to conduct a session of approximately 5–6 minutes with a group of participants • Each delegate should record their observations using the prompt sheet • Delegates to feed back their observations to the group • Repeat the process with other delegates

13. Self-analysis and Reflection Recap of Analysis Process: • Describe it – what, how, when, where etc • Compare it with what is wanted – against your desired outcome • Explain it – reasons to justify why the situation is as it is • Explore the solutions – devise strategies and implement actions to improve and be the best you can

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15. Workshop Outcomes By the end of this workshop, delegates should be able to: • recognise analysis as a systematic process and identify the steps involved • identify the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of skilled coaching performance • construct a checklist of coaching behaviours that reflect skilled performance in their current coaching situation and then use it to analyse their coaching • identify some of the methods and tools used to carry out observation and analysis and select possible strategies and actions for improvement

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