1. What is Coaching?
Workshop 1

2. What is Coaching? It is about
growing and guiding your athletes and in doing so growing yourself
listening to your athletes, understanding their needs and then working with them to help them succeed in their sport
leading others.

3. Coach Foundation Stones
Through the Coach Foundation Stones activity you will have an opportunity to think about coaching, to define it
and to examine your own strengths and areas for development.

4. NZ Coach Approach
‘Is a philosophy to unleash the potential of New Zealand athletes by a style of coaching that promotes learning through ownership, awareness and responsibility’.

5. What will we see from a coach approach
Learners who learn, coaches helping the process.
The focus on the ‘how’ not the ‘what’ in coaching.
Coaching is delivered through quality conversations using effective questions with no pre-determined answers.
Above all else we have moved from ‘coaching sport’ to ‘coaching people’.
Each individual takes ownership of his/her own performance through enhanced self-awareness.

6. NZ Coach Approach Continuum
Coach-centred
Autocratic
Instructional
Command style
Coach has the knowledge
Athlete-centred
Empowering
Participative style
Athlete has knowledge
Questioning based
NZ Coach Approach Continuum

7. Constructing your coach toolkit
There are different styles of coaching, from autocratic or command, to the more empowerment styles.
Your coach toolkit is built from your values, style, qualities, skills and abilities.

8. Coach qualities
The qualities of effective coaches are really the qualities of people who work effectively with people.
The key qualities are interpersonal ones, people skills.

9. Coach qualities and skills
Personal values
Self-discipline
Respect
Vision
Communication
Coping skills
Ability to set goals
Motivation
High standards
Leadership
Ethic of hard work
People management
Teaching skills
Interpersonal skills
Psychological skills
Organisation
Self-knowledge
Ability to read people
Preparation
Understanding of the sport
Encouragement
Willingness to learn

10. Some of the skills of coaching
Planning
Organising
Safety awareness
Building rapport
Providing instruction and explanation
Demonstrating
Observing
Analysing
Questioning
Providing feedback
Building a team culture

11. Key qualities of successful coaches
Knowledge of the sport
Caring
Ability to motivate
Leadership

12. Coach roles The role of the sports coach is
to create the right conditions for learning to happen
to teach skills
to motivate for better performance.

13. Coaches may play several roles
Role model
behaving in a values-based manner which can be mentored by others
Teacher
passing on knowledge, teaching new skills
Trainer
improving players’ fitness and performance
Motivator
providing positive reinforcement
Manager
organising practice, planning for competitions
Mediator
providing advice, settling disputes
Friend
providing empathy and support
Leader
providing a philosophy and vision for your players
Disciplinarian
being firm but fair
Challenger
asking questions, stretching athletes through challenge

14. “Sports do not build character. They reveal it.”
Heywood Broun, Writer

15. Coach philosophy Your philosophy is your set of values and beliefs.
It is really reflecting on why you are doing what you are doing.
“Your athletes are much more likely to become what you are than what you want them to be”
(Martens, 2004, p.8)

16. Developing a coaching philosophy includes
developing greater self-awareness to get to know yourself better
deciding what your objectives are in coaching.
Your objectives will shape many of your behaviours as a coach
believing in something - the basis of a coaching philosophy.

17. Questions to develop a coaching philosophy
What do you want to accomplish?
What do your athletes want to accomplish?
What are the priorities for all of us?
What are your responsibilities?
What methods will you use to achieve your goals?

18. Questions to develop a coaching philosophy (continued)
How will you define success?
How will practices and games be organised?
What are the team ground rules?
What are the commitments and consequences?
How will you develop a team or group philosophy and set of values?
(Adapted from NZ Coach Development Framework, 2007)

19. What are Values?
“Values are standards or principles that guide your actions and beliefs”
(Lee & King, 2000)

20. Values are
contributed to life experiences and reflected in our behaviour
our core values which guide our actions
the core of character.

21. Values and behaviours
Values guide our personal behaviour and the way in which we interact with our families and within our environment.
Values assist us to distinguish right from wrong and provide meaning in the way we conduct our lives.

22. Values and behaviours
Values sit at the base and make up the foundation of who we are.
Values are our beliefs, the things we hold important and the things we will not give up on when the going gets tough.

23. Some examples of personal values
Honesty
Integrity
Approachability
Caring
Courage
Creativity
Independence
Ethics
Morality
Reliability
Dedication
Punctuality

24. Some examples of team values
Loyalty
Conscientiousness
Competitiveness
Fairness
Inclusion
Winning mentality
Collaboration
Equality
Understanding others
Listening

25. Some examples of cultural values
Bi-cultural understanding
Regionalties
Family/whanau
Understanding of diversity
Faith
Tradition
Respect for the environment