Workshops

The Institute for Sport Coaching strives to provide you, the coach, with the tools and services you require to enable you to improve in any area you feel necessary. Within this webpage, you will find information on our innovative Sport Coach USA Workshops. Our workshops are divided into three series, Improve Your Coaching, Sport Psychology Skills Development and Build Professional Leadership Skills.

Improve Your Coaching

• Evaluating Your Coaching Effectiveness; A Path to Self Improvement

These workshops are for coaches who desire to further develop their coaching skills and knowledge to provide high quality coaching to their athletes.

Evaluating Your Coaching Effectiveness; A Path to Self Improvement — How does one become a better sport coach? Most coaches work hard to improve their team’s performance, but do they make the same commitment to further developing their coaching skills? Coaching is both an art and a science which requires extensive knowledge, skills and experiences to help athletes develop their potential physically, mentally as well as technically. In order to become a more effective coach, a coach must decide where they are, where they want to end up, and how they are going to achieve that personal self-development goal. This workshop will discuss the various means a coach can develop a process for analyzing and improving their coaching. Length is approximately 90 minutes.

Develop Your Sport Psychology Skills

• Setting Achievable Goals
• Unleashing the Power of Your Imagination; The Power of Visualization
• Focus & Concentration; How to Block Distractions

Created to provide practical sport psychology tools and techniques to sport coaches, these workshops can be combined or delivered separately depending on your needs.

Setting Achievable Goals — This workshop focuses on how to create outcome, performance and process goals as part of a team’s or individual athletes planning for an upcoming season. The use of these three types of goals allows athletes to continue progressing in their sport while dealing with the pressure of “winning or losing. Length is approximately 30 minutes long.

Unleashing the Power of Your Imagination; The Power of Visualization — This workshop will teach coaches and athletes how to use visualization as a powerful tool in learning new sport skills and how to perform in competitions. Participants will also learn the means to relax in high-stress situations. Length is approximately 30 minutes long.

Focus & Concentration; How to Block Distractions — This workshop will instruct coaches and athletes on how to incorporate focus drills to further develop the power of concentration. In addition, strategies on how athletes can set up themselves for success with pre-competition routines will be discussed. Length is approximately 30 minutes long.

Build Your Professional Leadership Skills

• Avoiding Burnout; Every Sport Coach’s Challenge
• Recruiting & Retaining Sport Coaches: A Means to SurviveGenerational Changes
• Learn to Be a Sport Coach Mentor

Leadership is one of the primary skills needed by any sport coach. The following workshops are unique opportunities to enhance your leadership capabilities to ensure your assistant coaches and athletes are truly successful.

Avoiding Burnout; Every Sport Coach’s Challenge — The profession of sport coaching, with its emphasis on performance, recognition and achievement, provides a fertile environment for “burn-out” to negatively affect coaches. Work-related burnout can cause a coach to experience mental, emotional and physical exhaustion which impacts work and family. Such exhaustion can result in negative attitudes towards sport, work and family and are obviously counter-productive. This presentation will address how coaches can spot the signs of burnout and take corrective action before exhaustion sets in. Also, ideas on how to create a work-life balance that effectively keeps burnout at bay will be discussed. Length is approximately 45 minutes.

Recruiting & Retaining Sport Coaches: A Means to Survive Generational Changes — Sport administrators, like many other professions, are facing the loss of large numbers of Baby Boomers from their workforces in the next few years. Compounding this loss is the fact the following generation (X Generation) is not as large thus creating a shortage of replacements to coach the relatively large Generation Y. This presentation will offer ideas on how to expand the pool of coaching candidates by developing a holistic approach that will recruit, train and retain sport coaches for any sport organization. Length is approximately 30 minutes.

Learn to Be a Sport Coach Mentor — This workshop focuses on how you can utilize mentoring as a means to aid the development of quality sport coaches. Mentoring is a powerful tool in the education and development of sports coaches at all levels. This workshop will help you as a mentor to support coaches’ learning and focus on how learning occurs. Participants by the end of this workshop should be able to:

• Identify your role as a mentor & how it fits into a coach’s professional development plan
• Increase the effectiveness of your mentoring relationships by developing practical mentoring skills
• Design a mentoring program that best suits the needs of your sport and the level of coaching

Length is approximately 75 minutes.

Contact the Institute’s Executive Director, , to set up a workshop for your coaches.