This post, or the study in full if you're really keen, is a must-read for all local/community clubs with a focus on coach development for all coaches within your football club.
Strap yourself in for part 2.
- Barriers and facilitators of coach development include that there is an expectation that the coach developer also needs to combined with other administrative roles that only takes away from coach developer duties
- The coach developer role needs to be acknowledged and accepted as an educational role, not an administration role
- There needs to be a clear indication that the coach developer will be provided with support, resources, guidance, education and acceptance
- The commitment to do to workshops away from their club is viewed as an inconvenience but when performed at the club it ensure more club relevant content
- Many club coaches struggle to accept coach development for fear of being scrutinised/judged but coach developers also don’t feel comfortable giving advice/feedback as volunteer coaches might see this as threatening and leave
- Coach developers have barriers with volunteers and feel as though they can’t place expectations on them
- Coach developers with teaching backgrounds have the skill set in managing people/activities and are trained in how to speak to kids and adults
- Clubs need to develop structured manuals but than also show how to use them and follow up that they club coaches actually are using them
- Club culture issues included the clubs need to emphasise participation/development over winning
- Coach development not only supports coach education, but it also disrupts the practice of coaching how you were coached
- Coaches don’t just want to be given balls and cones and told to go coach
- Clubs need to develop an environment where coaches want to undertake further learning rather then just participating for accreditation points
- Clubs that values and supports coach development and recognises the role is imperative to that environment and club culture as a whole
- High coaching quality expectations at junior and youth levels results in greater player retention and parent satisfaction to keep their kids at the club
- Learning to coach is more then merely being situated in the practice of coaching
- In response to coaches being volunteers, clubs grapple with enforcing accountability for quality coaching leading to issues with who takes the responsibility to initiate/sustain coach development and determine what constitutes the achievable quality of coaching
- Having a coach developer work with club coaches made them feel valued and provided an authentic experience
- At community level, club coach interaction can be learning situations in which issues are discussed, developed, explored and evaluated
- Learning situations that occurred at the club were most valued with outside sessions being additional commitments to coaches.
- On-site workshops can be made more relevant to your club
- Much of what new coaches learn is through ongoing interactions in the practical coaching context
- Coach developer programmes provides an environment where coaches wanted to learn rather simply been given resources to do what they want with
- Learning and understanding of coaching is developed through growing involvement and therefore becoming legitimate peripheral learning participants as they move towards full participation in the coaching community of practice
- Without resources and support, you’ll simply do what you’ve always done so providing learning context is not enough and without resources to aid the learning, coaches may not adapt to their environment and new learning is unlikely to occur
- If coaches are legitimate participants in a community of practice format, and are valued by other members of the community of practice, an authentic learning experience can be achieved
- A key feature of successful clubs is a strong club philosophy on what was expected of all members of the club, and protocols be in in place that outlines expectations
- Expectations created by the club facilitate the environment in which coaches learn, see and do and successful clubs valued and supported their coaches/coach developers and recognised the coach developer role as imperative
- Each role needs someone higher up to go to for help, offering a well scaffolded community of practice to support learning and development
- Not all coaches seek qualifications and development as some just wanted their children to be able to play in a team and therefore, mutual engagement may depend on the focus of the coach as well as the purpose of the coach developer programme
I have a great interest in becoming a coach developer as described in these past 2 posts so if you're club is interested then feel free to contact me.
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