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Knowing Yourself and Your Impact as a Coach

As coaches, we spend hundreds of hours a year on-field with our players yet often struggle to find/make even a short amount of time to articulate and reflect on our approach, values, strengths and areas for improvement - steps that without doubt will make those on-field hours more effective, efficient and enjoyable. 

We’ve been amazed at how a few simple, easy to implement tools and techniques (for all ages and abilities) have dramatically enhanced our players learning experience, sense of achievement and enjoyment of the game.

Take a look below at just some of the areas where we support coaches and clubs to build effective, productive and enjoyable learning environments for your players.

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Defining Success

Defining success in youth development

Building a Growth Mindset

How to build a growth mindset in your players – transform their approach to improvement, practice, effort and failure

Learner Centered Environments

How to create a learner-centered environment to maximize development returns & player enjoyment

Focusing on the Individual

Finding the ‘I’s’ in team – developing the individual as a priority

Understanding your Players' Learning Journey

Understanding the non-linear development your players experience and designing your sessions to best meet their learning needs

Learning to Learn & Deliberate Practice

Simple techniques & approaches to ensure your players learn how to learn & practice with purpose to accelerate their learning

Building Cognitive Players

Maximizing decision making whilst improving game related technique – building technically strong players with a good game brain

Individual Learning Plans

Creating simple, easy to implement learning plans for your players that focuses their development needs into achievable goals

Language & Cues

The coaching language & cues that are proven to accelerate young players understanding & learning of key technical competencies

Balancing Challenge & Success

How to achieve an appropriate balance of challenge & success for every player – keep players motivated & hungry to learn

Feedback & Questions

How to deliver feedback and ask the kind of questions that fuel accelerated and deeper learning

Reinforcement at Home

How to support parents to maintain & reinforce key learning messages and behaviours between practices & games. 

Competing vs Winning

Competing vs winning – how to achieve the appropriate balance and how it can significantly improve player learning

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