One clear theme is emerging in my coaching diary for the start of the year — in 2020 I will be doing much more to support cricket for girls.
The start of the year will see a focus on coaching in schools:
“we need to develop world class coaches for beginners”
Frank Dick
A couple of weeks ago, I posted on the challenge of developing coaches to work with beginners — children, or adults, new to a sport or to sports in general.
When I wrote that post, I asked what was being done to deliver on the ambition espoused by Frank Dick, and supported by many others.
I received some feedback that recognised the issue, but no suggestions of what could be done about it.
Since then, I have completed a quietly inspirational online course, Coaching Others to Coach.
And I might have seen the future of coach development in England.
Just maybe, it looks a bit like you, or me.
(more…)“we need to develop world class coaches for beginners”
Frank Dick said exactly this at the ECB CA conference in 2015. Everyone nodded. Nothing much seems to have changed…
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The Teesra 