Personal Coaching Skills 2 Coaching Styles and Learning Styles

Task: Great Leaders On the post-it: Write the name of someone you think of as a great leader (alive or dead) and 2 attributes that made them a great leader When you have selected a post-it, go in search of the author. You can only ask the question “Was your leader xxxx (one of the attributes).” Once you have found the author, you should write the leader on one flip chart and the attributes on the other

This module will help you to: develop and demonstrate athlete-centred coaching skills and practice develop your interpersonal, leadership and coaching skills analyse and develop your coaching knowledge, skills and behaviours review coaching process skills, skill and learning select and implement practice strategies and coaching style to enhance learning and retention

Leadership and Coaching Style Leadership Learning Styles and Athlete-centred coaching Coaching philosophy Analysing your coaching

Leadership is about making a positive impact on people and groups Leaders help to make things happen for the better Leaders are born AND made. Leadership is about focusing all energies on achieving the purpose Leadership creates vision and a strategy

Ranking of attributes of successful leaders (Chief Executives) 1Ability to take decisions 2Leadership 3Integrity 4Enthusiasm 5Imagination 6Hard working 7Analytical ability 8Understanding of others 9Spot opportunities 10Meet unpleasant situations 11Adapt to change quickly 12Take risks 13Enterprise 14Speak lucidly 15Astute 16Efficient administration 17Open mindedness 18Stick at it 19Work long hours 20Ambition

Task: What is your Coaching Style? Complete the Coaching Styles Questionnaire Count up the number of responses in each column Try to be as honest as possible

DIRECTIVE : task-oriented authoritarian style, makes all decisions, font of all knowledge gets things done but at some cost, somewhat outdated view SUPPORTIVE: people-oriented friendly, popular and approachable style can result in lack of direction and task achievement PARTICIPATIVE: Task & people oriented democratic style encouraging interaction and input in goal-setting and working practices probably most effective approach in most situations Coaching & Leadership Styles

Leadership Styles styleproscons Directive or authoritarian Achieves goals & tasks Good when time is limited or safety paramount Little regard for individual May not have support of team Members not helped to develop Supportive or people- oriented Leader is popularMay fail to achieve goals May lack direction Participative or democratic Task-oriented so achieves goals People-oriented so develops people May be time-consuming Leader may appear to lack vision and direction

Situational leadership SUPPORT (people) DIRECTION (task) HIGH PARTICIPATE% SELL% DELEGATE% TELL% LOW

Situational leadership SUPPORT (people) DIRECTION (task) HIGH MOSTLY PULLING BEHAVIOURS SOME PUSHING AND SOME PULLING BEHAVIOURS LITTLE PUSHING OR PULLING BEHAVIOURS ALL PUSHING BEHAVIOURS LOW

performance improvement encourage reward threaten set goals assess praise criticise give information leading telling how to.. asking supporting discussing drawing out discovering PUSHING PULLING unlocking judge

performance improvement PUSHING PULLING MOTIVATE GOAL-SET FEEDBACK LEARNING LISTENING QUESTIONING rewardencouragethreaten impose give judgement praise / criticise tell how to give information share best practice pre-judge leading ask what motivates supports efforts promote responsibility set by self raise awareness drawing out from self-awareness by discovery attentively, empathetically awareness raising generate self- belief

Athlete centred coaching Athlete centred coaching where the needs of the athlete are placed before everything else – the activity, the competition, your personal goals and ambitions where athletes are encouraged to be involved in their own development and empowered to take greater responsibility for it

Task: Learning Styles Questionnaire Complete the questions Evaluate the questionnaire using the grid provided Read about your learning style

Implications of athlete-centred approach? Need to structure sessions for achievement and enjoyment Need to get to know each athlete and treat each individually Need to recognise where each athlete is on the development model and adjust coaching accordingly Training to win Training to compete Training to train Learning to train FUNdaMENTALs

“hands on” coaching style “hands off” coaching style instructor/teacher provides information coach takes control Appropriate for: novices young athletes large groups dangerous activities mentor fewer interventions athlete in control Appropriate for: for experienced athletes whenever possible Level 2 Core 1.22

Badminton centred Player centred athletics event general coaching focus on performance emphasis on winning coach makes decisions authoritarian leadership “hands on” style tell and show needs of athlete individualised coaching focus on person emphasis on development athlete makes decisions democratic leadership “hands off” style ask and listen Level 2 Core 1.21

Leadership Style directivesupportiveparticipative task oriented push task & people oriented people oriented pull hands-on hands-off Instructs Tells coach in control Authoritarian focus on performance asks Listens athlete in control Democratic focus on athlete development

This module will help you to: develop and demonstrate athlete-centred coaching skills and practice develop your interpersonal, leadership and coaching skills analyse and develop your coaching knowledge, skills and behaviours review coaching process skills, skill and learning select and implement practice strategies and coaching style to enhance learning and retention