W11 - coaching in sports contexts Flashcards
Sports psychologists and performance consultants
Sport psychologists and performance consultants are often thought that their role is to provide mental training services to athletes
• However, consultation and education services to coaches can have far reaching benefits
Consultancy for coaches is needed for a range of reasons
• Not enough coaches are trained to coach
• The coaching style of a coach has a large influence on athletes
• Some coaching styles can be counterproductive
Detriment: having a controlling and authoritarian leadership style
F: allowing the athlete autonomy and involvement in decisions (democratic leadership style)
D: consistently ignoring skill errors and lack of effort of athletes
F: high frequency of training and instructional behaviours
D: high frequency of punishment-oriented feedback
F: high level of positive feedback and social support
D: creating extrinsic motivation focussed on external outcome goals (ego-involving)
F: creating a mastery-orientated (task-involving) motivations climate and focus on goals related to own performance
D: failure to respond to athletes’ performance successes and focus on the negatives
F: providing positive, supportive, and informationally relevant feedback in response to athletes’ performance success and failures
Sports coaches
- Sports coaches help people participating in sports to work towards achieving their full potential
- Sports coaches bring out ability by identifying needs and planning and implementing suitable training programmes.
- Whatever the context, coaching involves developing the participants’ physical and psychological fitness and providing the best possible practical conditions in order to maximise their chances of performing to the best of their ability
Sports coaching elements
- a process of guided improvement and development
- takes into account identifiable stages of development
- creation of practice and competition opportunities
- building good professional relationships with others
Responsibilities of a sports coach
- identify and fulfil aspirations of athlete
- improve performance of athlete
- monitor, reflect and evaluate efficacy of program
- create a positive environment in training and competition
- create positive motivational environment for involvement
Stages of sports coaches’ implementation
- set the vision and strategy
- shape the environment
- build relationships
- conduct practices and structure competition
- read and react to the “field”
- learn and reflect
Important aspects of a coaches behaviour
- professional knowledge
- interpersonal knowledge
- intrapersonal knowledge
Important aspects of athletes’ performance and behaviour
- competence
- confidence
- connection
- character
Kornspan’s model for creating a positive sport environment
- coaching philosophy
- leadership style
- communication
- motivation
Horn’s model of coaching effectiveness
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Sports coaching knowledge
Professional knowledge
- is the content knowledge and how to teach it
Interpersonal Knowledge
- relates to the ability to connect with people, including the athlete and those around the athlete
Intrapersonal Knowledge
- knowledge and understanding of oneself and the ability for self-reflection
Set the vision and strategy
- understand the big picture
- align and govern
- analyse needs
- set the vision
- develop strategy