Course: Player-centred Coaching

Private accountability allows you to identify self-limiting behaviours and implement strategies to minimise them so there’s a positive impact on individual and team performance. Individuals can be publicly accountable for …

Thank you for participating in Player-centred Coaching. We hope you enjoyed the course and found these learning materials stimulating and engaging. This course offered a taste of studying with Deakin …

When planning for competition the focus should be on strengths in order to achieve team success. We’ve explored the importance of understanding your opponents and the conditions, now we need …

Public accountability empowers individuals to take responsibility for their role in achieving team goals. When there is public accountability within the team, in the context of a safe and trusting …

The conditions in which you play and how you plan for them, in the corporate world or on the field, can be detrimental to the result. Chinese Philosopher Lao Tzu …

Winning isn’t a habit; it’s a result. As we saw in the previous step, focusing on the moment, and the next few moments, is going to have a more positive …

Player-centred coaching harnesses the team’s collective intelligence in order to share information and experiences of opponents. There’s no question that as a coach you need to understand opponents/competitors. In a …

We hope you are enjoying learning about how you can enhance people and performance through coaching. This is the second course in a series developed collaboratively between Deakin University and …

When the focus is on the result rather than the process, the player’s mind shifts from the present moment to the future. This creates unnecessary pressure that can impact on …

There’s a common saying that ‘there’s no I in team’ but individual goals need to be integrated into those of the team in order to effectively plan for success. ‘Goals’ …

Providing authentic acknowledgement of success to peers is essential to building team culture. One way of acknowledging success is for coaches/leaders to keep a notebook on hand to write down …

To gain buy-in from players, coaches need to move toward solutions for the future, rather than focus on mistakes from the past. The example of the implementation of a player-centred …

A review can build players’ and the team’s confidence or break it down, enhance learning or shut it down, build the player-coach relationship or undermine it. A lot rides on …

Learning from failure can be difficult, but some of the greatest learning, growth, improvement and character-building opportunities lie here. We’ve discussed how coaches can’t know what players were thinking in …

Engaging people in reviewing and planning empowers them to make their own decisions about what they need to do to enhance their performance. We turn our attention to the experiential …