How to coach: coaching behaviours

Part 2 on “how to coach” is based around a coach’s behaviours within a session (see part 1 here). How do they communicate with players? As always, it’s important to start at the beginning, by outlining what coaching is and what a coach does (in my opinion).

• Coach: An individual who plans and facilitates the training, learning and participation of an athlete and/or a team.

• Coaching: is a set of behaviours intended to develop skilled athletes.

If coaches are tasked with developing skilled athletes, we must define what skill is, and then define learning.

• Skill: the ability to adapt goal-directed behaviour to the surrounding constraints.

• Learning: a process of continually improving the fit between an individual and their environment by using surroun