On completing my level 2: “You’ve got your ‘badge’. Now go and learn to coach!”
Which, at the time, seemed a dreadful indictment of the coach education system – perhaps it was – but you don’t become a more effective, a more experienced coach by delivering the same session 10,000 times!
One of a series of short video posts for UK Coaching Week 2025.
Confidence comes from success. If players expect success, they are more likely to try something new.
So one way to build confidence is to include lots of small wins for the players.
But effective learning also comes out of failure…when it is followed by review & supportive feedback, followed by ultimate success, so it is important to allow the players to experience (small) failures.
One of a series of short video posts for UK Coaching Week 2025.
We finished our (half-) term programme with an under11 group at the weekend, with a session of game-like scenarios.
Perhaps a stretch for some of them, but after working with most of the group since last October I wanted to help them put into context some of the skills & techniques we have covered.
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