Develop your coaching
Coach Development is the process that coaches undertake in order to improve their coaching knowledge, skills, qualities and experience. In order to develop as a coach we need to first address what training and support we need to improve. This can be achieved through a Training Needs Analysis.
What is a Training Needs
Analysis (TNA)?
As coaches we are always encouraging our players to try new
training in order to develop/improve their performance; but have
you ever stopped to think what training/support you need as a coach
in order to improve your performance?
A TNA helps you reflect on where you are and where you want to
go. The main focus of the TNA is to identify what training, support
and guidance you need in order to achieve your coaching
goals.
This information can then be recorded in a Personal
Development Plan (PDP) to give you clear coaching goals and
increased motivation.
What is a Personal Development
Plan (PDP)?
As coaches, every year we will set our performers goals in
order to help them to improve. In many cases
this information is recorded in the form of a year plan for the
performer.
A PDP is very similar; it will allow all the information from
the TNA to be recorded in to a long term plan for your coach
development.
Why do I need a
PDP?
As coaches we always look to develop our athletes and help
them plan for the future, but we rarely consider our own
development.
Imagine if we were to improve ourselves as coaches, this will
not only improve our coaching but also the athletes we coach.
Identifying gaps in your coaching knowledge / experience can
lead to further qualifications and job opportunities.
How do I complete a TNA and
create my own PDP?
There is additional help text available
in this document by running your cursor over the yellow
text.
Complete the following
information
1.
Name
2.
Date that you are completing the form
3.
Date that you would like to review your
PDP
4.
Preferred contact details for the CDO, your Coach Manager or
Mentor to contact you on
5.
The sport(s) that you coach
6.
Your current coaching placement
7.
Are you employed as a Community Sports
Coach?
8.
You current highest qualification
9.
Your long term goal for your coaching
Once this information is complete you
should move on to your TNA.
2. Download the TNA Prompt Sheet and
the TNA
File
Follow the instructions on this document to complete your TNA
and Coach Profile Wheel.
Once completed, select print and the file will print off only
those sections that you have completed. You can
now return to your PDP and complete the remaining sections.
3. Complete your
PDP
When working through the remainder of this document, it is
important that the goals set can be considered as being SMARTER.
This means that they are:
Specific directly relevant to the
coachs needs
Measurable can be measured and
assessed
Acceptable achievable in the coachs
eyes
Realistic challenging but
achievable
Time-phased have timescales by when
they should be achieved
Exciting the coach should be
inspired by the goal
Recorded written down to refer
to
Once you have set your goals, think about what
barriers may prevent you from achieving these goals, and how you
can overcome these.
What happens
next?
Once you have completed your TNA and coach profile form, send
it to:
Coach Development Officer
c/o Suffolk Sport
Waveney District Council
Town Hall
High Street
Lowestoft
NR32 1HS
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