The Teesra

Category: Coach Development

  • Does anyone speak up for the coaches?

    Does anyone speak up for the coaches?

    I don’t think it would be unfair to suggest that ECB Coach Development (the group within the England & Wales Cricket Board with responsibility for developing coaches, at all levels of the game, from grassroots to the professional game) has lacked a little direction recently. An interim Head for two years, then a vacant post for another year, and most recently an appointment who, 12 months in, has yet to be introduced to the coaches he is tasked with developing.

    There have been a couple of revealing “coach development” news snippets, recently, revealing in that neither said anything at all about developing cricket coaching (or coaches) beyond the professional game or the private schools in England & Wales.

    Nor about addressing the genuine issues of inclusion raised by ICEC, nor the ongoing (apparent) failures of coaching (at all levels of the development pathway) in England (& Wales) to develop players ready for the international stage.

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  • Who coaches the coaches? And can we do it better?

    ECB Coach Development have been hosting a monthly online call for Coaches Association coaches this year, giving the chance to talk with peers about current coaching topics. The most recent call addressed the subject of “who coaches the coaches?”

    An interesting call, but it perhaps opened more questions than it addressed.

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  • So what actually is coaching? Listening & noticing! More inspiration from the iCoachCricket podcast.

    So what actually is coaching? Listening & noticing! More inspiration from the iCoachCricket podcast.

    I have posted recently on several of the iCoachCricket podcasts from the ECB. Not always positively, but there seems to be a more recent trend for these podcasts to go beyond the “secrets of my success” content to pose questions about the future direction of coaching and Coach Development.

    Two recent episodes, with Iain Brunnschweiler and Martin Dighton challenged the fundamental assumptions about what coaching really is.

    ECB Coach Development — are you listening?

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