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Expert Advice for Sports Coaching Success

From One Size fits All to One Size fits One: The Future of Coach Education.

By Wayne Goldsmith | In Coach education

Remember the old days?

Coaches would come along to a Level One course or Beginning Coaching Workshop.

They would sit there for a few days listening to hours and hours of information about “the art of coaching” and the “physiology of sport” and “the biomechanics of sport” and “the psychology of sport” and “periodisation and planning for sport“ while watching hundreds and hundreds of blue slides with yellow text as a seemingly endless procession of presenters droned on and on and on about their experiences in coaching and how “if you ever want to be a good coach you must always…..” and “to be a good coach you must never, ever……”

Well, those were the old days. They have gone forever. And good riddance.

From One Size fits All to One Size fits One: The Future of Coach Education.

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101 Coaching Tips

By Wayne Goldsmith | In Coaching Tips

 

It takes 20 years to become an overnight success. Successful coaches have by a combination of experience, skill, education and practice, developed ways and means of getting the best out themselves and their athletes.

Here are 101 Coaching Tips to help you achieve your coaching goals.

1. Plan.
2. Develop communication skills and never stop trying to improve them.
3. Learn to effectively utilise the Internet, social media and email.
4. Never stop learning. Learning is for life.
5. Be open-minded. Never say, never.
6. What you may lack in knowledge, make up for with enthusiasm, desire and passion.
7. Be a role model for your athletes. Read more

Creating a Winning Culture in High Performance Football: the Building Blocks of Brilliance.

By Wayne Goldsmith | In High Performance Sport

Regular readers of this blog will recognise the phrase “High Performance Environment” - it something that has appeared many times in SCB blog posts and discussions.

A High Performance Environment is more or less things you can buy to increase the opportunity for athletes and coaches to perform to their full potential, e.g. facilities, equipment, sports science support, supplements etc etc ad infinitum.

However, creating and sustaining the worlds best high performance environment is of little value if your team is not winning.

A high performance environment: i.e. having the fundamental elements of best practice in high performance sport, is merely the framework – the skeleton on which to hang a winning culture.

You need both: the high performance environment provides the opportunity for athletes, coaches, management and staff to perform to a high standard: a winning culture drives the standards and behaviours that take full advantage of the high performance environment.

A high performance environment provides the potential for success: a winning culture turns potential into performance and performance into victory.

WG

Sport and Parenting – GOLD MEDAL PARENTING – PART TWO

By Wayne Goldsmith | In Sport and Parenting

In part one of this article we looked at different types of Sporting Parents.

Here are a few more……see if you recognise anyone you know. Read more

Winning and Losing: Outplayed or Out-talented?

By Wayne Goldsmith | In High Performance Sport

High Performance sport is founded on a relatively simple equation: you either win or you lose.

And when you lose, it is natural to look for the reasons “why” through performance reviews etc.

A critical aspect in understanding the “losing process” is to find the answer to this question….were you outplayed or out-talented? Read more

The Performance Clock – The Most Important Concept in High Performance Sport.

By Wayne Goldsmith | In High Performance Sport

I often get asked, what’s the difference between sport and high performance sport.

Read the next 800 words and find out.

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The One Tip to Rule Them All……..”Competition Plus” training.

By Wayne Goldsmith | In Winning

Last year I was asked by a regular reader to list my all time Top Ten Tips to enhance sports performance.

Naturally I obliged.

The same reader just sent a new challenge, “Wayne, if you had to pick just one tip: one thing that above any other was the single most important concept or idea or principle to enhance the performance of athletes and coaches what would it be”.

Pretty simple really………………The One Tip to Rule Them All is…………..

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The Greatest Assistant Coaching Article Ever Written (i.e. because we think it’s the only one): 50 of the best Tips on how to be a World Class Assistant Coach.

By Wayne Goldsmith | In Coaching Tips

By Lindsay Gaze, Michael Foley, Dave Claxton, Craig Tiley, Scott Johnson, Bill Sweetenham, Andrew Friend, Keith Davies, and Wayne Goldsmith

Foreword:

Leading international Rugby Coach (and former Wallabies Assistant coach) Scott Johnson and I were exchanging emails about coaching. Scott said, “You read a lot about coaching and plenty about being a head coach, but where is there something written about being a great assistant coach”.

I accepted the challenge, contacted some coaching friends and colleagues and this is what we came up with.

Sincere thanks to Lindsay, Michael, Dave, Craig, Scott, Bill, Andrew and Keith for their ASSIST-ANCE. Read more

Why Bench – marking is a waste of time in High Performance Sport.

By Wayne Goldsmith | In High Performance Sport

Benchmarking.

It has become one of the Buzz words in high performance sport.

Benchmarking means that someone in an organisation decides to find out what the best people in the industry are doing, learn from them and usually copy what they are doing.

For example, coaches in professional football codes will sometimes visit successful programs in other codes – maybe even in other nations – to try and learn what they do and how they became successful.

Institutes and Academies of Sport and Government sporting authorities often send people to other countries to benchmark systems, structures, programs and innovations.

It seems like a good idea. Travel to see another program, get some instant solutions to problems and some new ideas to help enhance performance - seems like a great idea.

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High Performance on a Budget – can you create a high performance environment without spending any money?

By Wayne Goldsmith | In High Performance Sport

When clients ask me to work with them, it is usually to help them  become the best they can be in one or both of these two areas:

1. Help them to create a sustainable winning culture and / or:

2. Help them to create a world class high performance environment, (i.e. the things you can build and buy).

Although most of the time I get to work with professional sports and elite level Olympic teams, I am regularly asked to work with schools, amateur sporting clubs and part time coaches on a range of performance related issues, athlete attitudes, motivation techniques, leadership development, coach development exercises and sports performance enhancement programs.

Recently a client from an amateur but highly successful sporting Club asked me, “Wayne, we hear what you say about the best high performance environments in the world and about tools like GPS systems, ice baths, recovery centres, the latest video analysis systems and having a sports medicine team available 24 / 7. But we are all part timers. We gladly donate our time to coach the team and we have to fit our coaching around our jobs and our family. Our budget is minimal. Can we still create an effective high performance environment without spending any money?“

Yes, you can. Read more

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  • From One Size fits All to One Size fits One: The Future of Coach Education.
  • 101 Coaching Tips
  • Creating a Winning Culture in High Performance Football: the Building Blocks of Brilliance.
  • Sport and Parenting – GOLD MEDAL PARENTING – PART TWO
  • Winning and Losing: Outplayed or Out-talented?

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