Further learning with Deakin
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 …
Course: Player-centred Coaching
Identify and overcome self-limiting behaviours
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 …
How public accountability impacts planning
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 …
Understanding your own game
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 …
How to plan ahead for the conditions players might face in a game, so they’re prepared
Whether you’re in the corporate world or on the sporting field, the conditions in which you work/play and how you plan for them can be detrimental to the result. Chinese …
Understanding your opponents
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 …
Performance-based outcomes
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 …
Individual and Team Goals
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. Define …
What outcomes are we planning for?
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 …
Interested in learning more?
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 …
Practical examples of reviewing success
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 …
How to acknowledge success with peers
How to acknowledge success with peers Make a list of successes One way of acknowledging success is for coaches/leaders to keep a notebook on hand to write down all the …
How to coach players: learning from failure
Learning from failure can be difficult, but some of the greatest learning, growth, improvement and character-building opportunities lie here. Coaches can’t know what players were thinking in the moments preceding …
Reviewing success and failure
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 …
How to engage players in reviewing their performance in a game
Reviewing performance will be most effective when players are comfortable sharing their thoughts and feelings. Of the errors players make on the field, between 80% and 95% of them are …
