- Teacher: Christine Nash
- Teacher: Michael Waring
Within performance coaching managing and coordinating a number of variables is essential to coaching effectiveness. The coaching process allows a systematic approach to improving an individual's or team's performance in a competitive surrounding, through rationally planned and managed programmes.
This course introduces coaches to coaching models, principles of systematic review and evaluation, effective coaching and the management of a high performance coaching environment. The students will have the opportunity to critically review current research within sport coaching and performance as well as undertake basic data collection in the practical coaching environment. Students will also be introduced to principles of scientific writing.
Students must have access to a coaching environment to undertake this course
- Teacher: Christine Nash
Performance development has been a recent development, aimed at assisting coaches and national governing bodies, by identifying talent within a particular sport and allowing the coaches to spend time developing those with promise, with a view to developing expertise. There is an ongoing debate as to whether this represents ethical good practice, whether it is a sound use of money and does in fact develop better performers, who are able to compete on the world stage. This course will examine this debate as well as models of talent identification and aspects of talent development. This is underpinned by the study of expertise, from a number of viewpoints: the performer; the coach and the concepts of expertise in different domains. The course will be theoretical in format but there will be the opportunity to examine case studies.
You will explore the principles underpinning coaching practice and coach education and the impact of these systems and processes on the development of expert performers and coaches. Coaches are responsible for developing performers and to do this effectively they must also undertake personal development using all available sources of knowledge. You will learn about coach education and coaching practice across a range of countries and the subsequent impact on performance
- Teacher: Christine Nash