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As any master coach will tell you, successful sports coaching is never “arrived at”, and requires constant coaching development. Here you’ll find articles and case studies dedicated to best practice sport coach development. You may find our sections for our most recent articles, resources and materials, latest newsletters, or 5 Minutes with Bo Hanson video series valuable too.
Bo Hanson’s Play Like a Champion Coach Note
In June 2015, Bo and Liz Masen presented as keynote speakers at the ‘Play Like A Champion Today National Sports Leadership Conference’ at the University of Notre Dame. Play Like a Champion provide weekly Champion Notes for coaches, student-athletes
Maximizing the Contribution of Specialist Coaching Staff
By Bo Hanson, 4x Olympian and International Coaching Consultant 20 years ago elite sports teams were lucky to have a strength and conditioning coach. Today, professional teams have an essential coaching staff that can include up
Finally, Professional Development for Assistant Coaches
By Robert Dobson – Athlete Assessments Ask the most successful head coaches what they really value in their programs; they will almost unanimously identify the strength and dependability of their assistant coaches as fundamental to what
Building Rapport for Sports Coaches and its Benefits
Rapport is something people know is important, yet it can often be an overlooked topic. In this video, Bo Hanson explains the meaning and importance of rapport. Find out why building rapport for sports coaches is such a good investment, how trust and respect play a critical role in building rapport, ways rapport can be used to improve a coach-athlete relationship.
Sport Coach Development Programs: Across the Codes
By Liz Masen and Kate Ross An insight into the five ‘football’ high-performance sport coach development programs, and those who lead them, in Australia. This article was featured in our latest People+Sport Magazine: Education and
5 Minutes with Bo Hanson: What Do Expert Coaches Have in Common?
Watch Bo Hanson discuss what expert coaches have in common and what is the key factor in what makes these top coaches so great. Recorded during an ABC TV Interview, find out why adapting your behavior to suit the needs of your athletes is vital to improving sports performance. Don’t miss these important insights.
Rugby Union Coach Development: Matthew Wilkie
Internationally renowned as the gentlemen’s code, Rugby Union has earned its place in history as dignified and nuanced, while ensuring an exciting future with its ‘Sevens’ now being an Olympic sport. With teams from France to
Rugby League Coach Development: Dylan Hides
While Rugby League’s history is entrenched as the ‘working class game’, the modern code has gained a much broader appeal across the country. Its popularity recently confirmed when the National Rugby League (NRL) signed the largest
Football Coach Development: Rob Sherman
A game that can draw comparisons with religion in England and South America, Football or ‘Soccer’ is a sport with a significant following around the world. Some parts of the world follow the cosmopolitan code with
Australian Football Coach Development: Lawrie Woodman
The Australian Football League (AFL) presides over one of the most iconic forms of football in the country. Since 1897 the game has been the cause for celebration as well as heated bar room conversation. While
Sport Professional Development – 7 Critical Elements
By Liz Masen and Kate Ross If you are looking for impactful and effective Sport Professional Development for your Coach Development, Athlete Leadership, or Sport Management University Program, then here are 7 things you cannot afford
Mentoring in Referee Development
A successful formula for mentoring programs The impact a mentor can have on someone’s development can be profound and the benefits enormous for both sides of the relationship. However many programs, despite the best of intentions,
NCAA Women Coaches Academy (WCA)
By Liz Masen and Kate Ross Skills development, retention, mentoring and collaboration for Women Coaches The NCAA Women Coaches Academy (WCA) celebrated its 30th program in 2013, and continues to be the most respected and sought
Leadership Development and Coaches
By Bo Hanson – 4x Olympian, Coaching Consultant & Director of Athlete Assessments At the recent 2009 Evolution of the Athlete Conference in Brisbane Australia, Athlete Assessments conducted a survey of participant coaches from Australia and
A Coach’s Role is Critical
A coach’s role is critical in the context of our society. What I want to share with you in this article is my philosophy on the role of sport and the significant contribution coaches make. This is particularly important for your sport and every sport.
Creating a high-performance Coaching Style
Every coach has their unique approach or style to coaching. Whether or not this leads to a high-performance coaching style, where their athletes are reaching their full potential, comes down to a few core elements. The
Sports Coach Philosophy in your Sport Coaching Minor
Find a phenomenal coach with a wealth of experience (and full trophy cabinet), and ask them what their coaching philosophy is. They will immediately provide you with a succinct account of what principles they adhere to and the standards they hold. So if top coaches have a coaching philosophy, do you?
Best Sports Coaches: What Level are you Coaching at?
By Bo Hanson – 4x Olympian, Coaching Consultant & Director of Athlete Assessments The 2008 Beijing Olympic Study, undertaken by the Canadian Olympic Team, shed light on the factors leading to either personal best performances or
8 Characteristics of Expert Sport Coaches
Ever spent time wondering how expert coaches operate? In this article we take a quick look at what the ‘experts’ do that makes them experts. This research was derived from how experts conduct themselves across a wide domain of industries and areas of endeavor. Expertise is universal and we apply this to coaching sport.
Developing Women Coaches: Moving Forward
By Kate Ross – Athlete Assessments When we read Deborah Brake’s research paper on “Discrimination Inward and Upward: Lessons on Law and Social Inequality from The Troubling Case of Women Coaches“, we were inspired to provide
Sports high-performance Program Planning
By Jason Drummond, this article has been adapted from a research paper written pursuant to a NRL high-performance Coach accreditation assessment task.Within a high-performance program it is necessary to function within a high-performance plan.
Professional Development Topics for Coaches
By Bo Hanson – 4x Olympian, Coaching Consultant & Director of Athlete Assessments The Professional Development Coaches Actually Want Recently Sports Coach UK released The Coaching Panel, the results of their survey of 1,200 coaches. It
Professional Development for Sports Coaches
Professional Development for Sports Coaches is critical. The best coaches know that to be the best, they must continue to develop professionally. But with the many types of Professional Development available, it can be difficult to discover the most effective way to improve coaching skills. With this in mind, we thought it would be valuable to pass on the results of ‘The Coaching Panel’, a recent survey by Sports Coach UK of 1,200 coaches. Within this study, one section focused on the Professional Development that Sports Coaches found most valuable in their careers.
Transitioning from Athlete to Coach: Jonny Wilkinson
By Bo Hanson – 4x Olympian, Coaching Consultant & Director of Athlete Assessments Transitioning from Athlete to Coach requires significant coach development. Success as an athlete does not automatically translate to success as a coach. Recently
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