Online ExpertTrack in Business & Management

Coaching Skills: Sports Coaching and Leadership

Learn valuable sports coaching skills to lead and motivate your high-performing team with this ExpertTrack from Deakin University.

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Upskill in sports leadership and coaching to maximise your team's performance

Coaching skills have been increasingly sought-after to improve the performance of teams as well as individual athletes.

On this ExpertTrack, you’ll be empowered to become a confident and inspirational sports coach.

Using the international coaching experience of business and elite sports coach, Paddy Upton, you’ll explore concepts from sports psychology, coaching and leadership that can be applied to teams in a number of contexts.

Learn how to navigate coaching in a changing landscape

The coaching landscape is fast-changing, and you need to be adaptable to stay relevant and effective.

You’ll learn important strategies to help guide you through the changing coaching landscape, and the techniques that go beyond simply instructing.

Implement an athlete-centred approach

You’ll analyse the differences between a coach-centred and athlete-centred approach to coaching, and how these impact the performance of your athletes.

You’ll learn how to implement effective athlete-centred strategies to create a collaborative relationship and help them reach their potential.

Go on a journey of personal mastery

You’ll learn how to improve your emotional intelligence as you discover the relationship between self-awareness and being an effective leader.

You’ll understand how to become more self-aware, and how this affects your ability to give instructions as a leader or coach.

Find out how to create a positive and cohesive team culture

You’ll discover how to use different coaching principles and strategies to create a positive and supportive environment.

You’ll learn how your role as a coach is an important part of establishing an inclusive team culture, and how this affects performance.

Understand the importance of the mental game

You’ll examine the significance of mental fitness and how you can coach the mental game to help your athletes perform without any distractions.

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Skip to 0 minutes and 12 seconds In sport, the role of the coach as leader is not to push but to inspire. Rather than create fear, it’s to foster an inner desire. More than just delivering results, the coach’s role is to grow rounded and grounded human beings.

Skip to 0 minutes and 33 seconds Hi, I’m Paddy Upton, a business coach and high performance sports coach across multiple sports and at the professional level of the game. In this course, we’ll explore the changing coaching and leadership landscape in more detail and investigate how coaches can remain current and effective. We’ll also discover insights into different ways of leading others and practical methods to take your leadership or coaching to the next level.

Skip to 1 minute and 4 seconds For me, leadership is about creating a fertile environment for others to learn, grow, and achieve whatever is important to them within the context of the team. The importance of this is to grow people both personally and professionally, ideally to produce valuable outcomes for the world they impact. All this needs to happen within the context of the fast changing coaching and leadership landscape. Whatever your interest in coaching or leadership, whether it’s sports, business, or any other purpose, I look forward to sharing my insights and hopefully helping you become an even better leader.

Key skills you will learn

  • Leadership
  • Athlete-centred coaching
  • Sports leadership
  • Culture building
  • Servant leadership
  • Self-awareness
  • Team development
  • Sports coaching
  • Team building
  • Values-based coaching
  • Sports management

Learning outcomes

By the end of the ExpertTrack, you’ll be able to...

  • Investigate the impact of a coach- or athlete-centred approach on athlete development and performance and apply those principles in practice
  • Recognise the changing landscape of coaching and apply innovative approaches to coaching that move beyond instructing
  • Investigate the role successful coaches play in developing a positive and cohesive team culture and apply this in practice
  • Analyse the difference between the thinking and the instinctive brain and evaluate how their separate functions impact key moments when applying frameworks and strategies for coaching the mental game

Experience required

There are no entry requirements for this ExpertTrack.

The ability to coach high-performing teams is essential for anyone coaching at an elite sporting level. You’ll gain insights into the psychology behind coaching and learn from one of the best minds in the field.

This course will suit you if you are looking to grow your skills in coaching. You could be just starting your career or you may have prior coaching experience.

Getting started

This ExpertTrack will suit you if you are looking to grow your skills in coaching.

It will particularly benefit you if you are a current or prospective coach looking to broaden your skills or become a better coach. It will also suit you if you are a student considering postgraduate study in sports or nutrition, or an athlete transitioning to personal training work.

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World-class learning with Deakin University

Deakin University is one of Australia’s largest universities with more than 61,000 students and over 15,000 online.

  • Established

    1974

  • Location

    Melbourne, Australia

  • World ranking

    Top 280Source: QS World University Rankings 2021

Meet your instructor

Paddy Upton

I'm a Professor of Practice at Deakin University, coach of professional cricket teams and athletes, and business coach - which I do to support my surfing, fishing and stand-up paddling habits

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