Distinction grade. Learning aim A. Coaching for performance. 5000 words. Investigate skills, knowledge, qualities and best practice of performance coaches. Explain and analyse skills for coaching performance. Explain and analyse qualities for coach performance.
A coach instructs athlete’s on the skills of their sport, if a coach can use their skills and knowledge
confidently they will be effective in their role. Coaches improve teams or athlete’s performance by
developing training and conditioning sessions. Each type of skill is as important as the other and so a
coach should try to find ways to improve their transferable, personal or knowledge based skills over
time. Keeping up with knowledge based skills will give them more ways to coach their players,
improving or maintaining good personal traits and attitudes will help to create a better working
relationship with the players and encourage respect. Transferable skills will always benefit a coach
who can adapt and use them to communicate with others and help them to be a better organiser.
In sport skills are a learned by athlete’s through training and practise, any sports person performing
in their chosen sport efficiently and effectively to a high standard and having the capability to display
the skills and techniques they have learnt and at the right time show their level of skill. A high level
of skill is shown by a player when they perform it regularly with success and with minimum effort.
A coach will encourage a rugby player to use skill to accurately pass a rugby ball, throwing a ball is
one basic skill developed over time to become more accurate which will allow the rugby player to
effectively move the ball to a team mate increasing the chance of success of the player receiving the
ball if the pass is performed well. A good coach will use strategies and techniques in their coaching
to improve the players techniques and skills and the way they make choices so a rugby player in my
example passes the ball at the right time and with the right technique to ensure success of the pass.
Explain and analyse skills and knowledge for coaching for performance.
There are three types of skill classification.
The first is transferable or functional skill these are skills developed over time and can be
transferred from one activity to another.an example of transferable skills is good communication,
time management and organisation. These can be adapted to suit different situations and are used
daily.
The second is personal traits or attitudes these skills are developed during childhood and life
experience and are personal characteristics. Examples are patience, independence, confidence in
own ability and completing tasks and meeting deadlines.
The third is knowledge based this is knowledge learned about specific subjects or in occupations,
examples are computer skills, accounting or teaching.
Organisation of sessions
Good organisation by a coach encourages the players they are coaching to be organised themselves.
A session that has been organised in good detail will keep the players interested and motivated as
they will enjoy the structure of the session and feel they are achieving the tasks. A coach should also
think about the ability of the group in general and consider the different levels of ability between
players adjusting the session to make sure all players and the skills they have are encouraged to
improve them. The coach should think about the length and structure of the session they are
organising and crate a routine for each session giving good continuity for the players who will
become organised themselves when they are used to the routine of the sessions. If the organisation
of a coach is poor the session they have planned will not be effective in giving the players the input
they require to improve their technique or knowledge of the sport they are playing.
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