The Leisure Review Coaching Insights
A
series of seminars for sports coaching professionals
The TLR Coaching Insights programme has been designed for coaches and by coaches to help get developed and developing practitioners out of their sport-based silos and into contact with other like-minded people to learn, challenge, be challenged and network. The format is simple: three hours, four speakers from elite to grassroots sport, from business and from academia with time for networking built in. The target audience is Level 2 coaches and above along with their managers and educators in full-time, part-time and voluntary roles.
The following Coaching Insights are now taking bookings:
Another brick in the wall: the building blocks of coaching excellence
29th March 2012
2.30pm start
Sport Nottinghamshire
Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Campus
Download full details of this event [pdf]
Looking through the glass ceiling: learning from coaches of elite players
19th April 2012
Sport Cheshire and GreaterSport
Warrington
Go on inspire me: is inspiration the job of the coach?
26th April 2012
Herts Sports Partnership
Hertfordshire Sports Village, Hatfield
Theme tba
Week beginning April 30th 2012
West Yorkshire Sport
Leeds
For further information on these seminars or to discuss becoming a Coaching Insight delivery partner contact Mick Owen at The Leisure Review
We are currently discussing the hosting of Insight Sessions in and around Leeds, Warrington, Leicester and Winchester. Full details will be made available as soon as possible.
For further information on these seminars or to discuss becoming a Coaching Insight delivery partner contact Mick Owen at The Leisure Review
Coaching Insight reports
The chameleon coach: the challenge of being all things to all people
Held on 6th December,
York St John University
A report will appear in the February 2012 issue of The Leisure Review
Right coach, right place, right time: the coach as an agent of change
Held on 23rd November,
Winchester University
A report of this event appears in the December 2011 issue of TLR
Sitting at the feet of giants: what can we learn from the coaches of elite performers?
Held on 19 October,
Nottingham Trent University
A report of this event appears in the November 2011 edition of TLR.
Nurturing and developing talent: how do we find the coach's Philosopher's Stone
Held on 6 October,
Warrington Collegiate
Presentation: David Rotheram [PowerPoint file 2.16MB]
Presentation: Chris Robertson [PowerPoint file 252KB]
Presentation: Gwenda Ward [PowerPoint file 423KB]
Coaching: profession, vocation or business opportunity
Held on 29 June 2011,
Nottingham Trent University
The demand for sports coaches in schools, commercial and governing body programmes and the Olympic legacy sector has meant more coaches are getting paid more often, but are they getting more professional? This seminar heard from commercial coaching companies, advocates for the professionalisation of coaching, governing bodies that need to help coaches adapt to the modern world, and leading academics.
A report of this event is now available
Embracing chaos: innovative approaches to coaching and coach education
Held on 12 May 2011 at Birchwood Golf Club, Warrington
This event explored the supposition that If success in sport is “the accumulation of marginal gains” the need to innovate should be a major driver for coaches, coach educators and coach managers. However, reliance on tried and tested methods, a watch-me-then-you-do-it approach to coach training and the dreaded tick box mentality which percolates into coaching from our friends in sports development all erode the will to experiment. Our speakers were John Mills leading coach educator for British Cycling and the UCI, Ian Thompson coach development manager for the RFU in the North West and David Haskins Visiting Fellow at both Liverpool John Moores and Sheffield Hallam universities but the key ingredient was the coaches in the room.
A report of this event is available in the June 2011 issue of The Leisure Review.
Presentation: Mark Drummond [PowerPoint file 4.2MB]
Presentation: Dave Haskins [PowerPoint file 3.8MB]
Presentation: British Cycling [PowerPoint file 3.4MB]
Other events
Community sport enterprises: the way forward for community sport
Thursday 3 November
6.30pm – 9.30pm
The Hat Factory Arts Centre, Luton
Presented by the Sports Marketing Network in association with The Leisure Review, this event will explore how to introduce new cultures and skills so that your sports club, community group, leisure trust and other sports and activity provider can grow and deliver great sport experiences as a sustainable community sports enterprise.
Download full details of this event [pdf]
