Coaching Skills: Sports Coaching and Leadership

This two-week coaching skills training course is designed to equip you with the necessary skills to thrive in today's rapidly changing coaching landscape. Whether you're interested in coaching sports or business, this course will teach you how to inspire and motivate others. By learning essential leadership skills and practical steps, you'll become a better leader and be able to elevate your coaching abilities.

One key aspect of this course is understanding the experiential learning cycle and how it goes beyond simple instruction. You will learn how to effectively plan and review to help your team improve their performance. By harnessing your group's collective intelligence, you'll be able to motivate, develop, and coach others more effectively.

The course will be led by Paddy Upton, a specialist business and sports coach from Deakin University. With his expertise and guidance, you'll gain valuable insights into the changing coaching environment and how to navigate it successfully.

Overall, this coaching skills training course offers a comprehensive approach to developing your coaching skills in today's ever-evolving landscape. By learning from industry experts and applying practical techniques, you'll be equipped with the tools necessary to excel as a coach. Whether you're looking to enhance your sports coaching abilities or improve your leadership skills in a business setting, this course will provide you with the knowledge and strategies needed for success.

You can get the most out of your team by using coaching techniques that encourage collaboration and performance.

This two-week course will teach you how to coach athletes with an athlete-centered approach.

You will learn to communicate with your team members and coach them, and how to focus on their needs. This will help you create the best experience possible for them.

To evaluate the differences between athlete-centred and coach-centred approaches, you will use Ken Wilber's Integral Matrix. This will allow you to reflect on the impact of different coaching styles on team performance.

You can create your own plan to help your athletes learn how to think. You'll be able to help them evaluate their past performances and plan for the future.

This course will help you understand the difference between coaching science and art, and how to adapt different approaches to your particular context.

You will understand the importance and benefits of reviewing and planning, and how coaching with athletes in mind can make the difference between success or failure.

You need to be able give clear instructions to others to motivate them. But how can we do this if our self-awareness is lacking? If you think of yourself as an instrument of leadership, then self-awareness is the single-most-important quality to ensure your leadership success. This course will teach you how to improve your self-awareness, and how to apply personal mastery concepts to your leadership role. Your core values will be examined and discussed to help you improve your emotional intelligence. To understand your personal standards and determine your actions, you will create your own plans. This knowledge can be used to guide your leadership decisions.

This course will help you understand how self-awareness can improve your leadership and coaching skills. You'll be on a journey to personal mastery and learn how to let go of certain beliefs, behaviours, values, or intentions. Learn how to improve your leadership skills and apply the lessons to your personal life.

Coaching is an essential part of creating a team environment.

This course is two weeks long and will teach you how to support your team members, promote inclusion, and use various strategies.

You will learn how to create a team that works together and achieves your team's goals.

You will learn how to encourage growth in your team by understanding the stages of team development, including the change cycle and team bank balance, as well as the performance clock.

You will need to adapt your approach to work with both established and new teams. There are some key differences between working with established and new teams. The frameworks that can be used to support new teams will be identified and the potential challenges faced in each case.

As your team grows, you'll learn how important it is to monitor conflict and reflect on changes.

This course will help you understand how coaches can create and sustain a positive culture in the workplace and how to implement these ideas in your own team.

You'll be able to build a team environment that encourages growth and shares an interest in achieving team goals by the end of the course.

Performance of an athlete is not only dependent on their physical abilities; it also depends on their mental strength.

This two-week course will teach you how to coach your team's mental game.

Coaching athletes mentally is a great way to improve their performance. Learn how to identify the key elements of mental games and apply frameworks, principles, and strategies to increase mental fitness in athletes to help them get into the "zone".

Culture can have a major impact on an athlete's performance or development.

You are responsible for creating a positive environment that encourages growth as a coach. This course will help you understand how to create ideal mentalities in athletes through creating an empowering environment and adopting a servant-leadership approach.

This course will help you to understand the importance of coaching in business and sports. You'll also be able to apply what you learn to improve your team's performance.

As you coach the mental game, you'll be able to create a supportive environment for your athletes.