Creating the Coaching Environment
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Achieving a world-class coaching environment requires a foundation upon which coaching communities can grow. The elements of this foundation will be established through a game plan comprising five key tactics.
The tactics are to:
- Build sport-specific coaching strategy and development programme capability
- Provide resourcing for coaching roles
- Improve coach education requirements and qualifications
- Establish world-class coaching capability
- Implement sector support and consultancy services.
These tactics are explored further below.
Tactic 1
Build sport specific coaching strategy and development programme capability.
[Long description]
Outcome
National sport organisations will have dedicated coaching directors to drive their coaching strategy and development programmes. The programmes will be sport-specific, comprehensive, effective and aligned to this strategy.
Development stage
National sport organisation coach development project
Assist sports to develop and implement a sport-specific coaching strategy.
- National sport organisation secures investment to recruit a dedicated coaching director
- National sport organisation recruits a dedicated coaching director
- National sport organisation establishes and maintains sport-specific coaching strategy and development programmes. Sports will customise a development programme including, for example:
- Recruitment and retention
- Mentoring
- Recognition
- Education (formal and informal)
- Pathway development
- Succession planning.
Tactic 2
Provide resourcing for coaching roles.
[Long description]
Outcome
Have full time sport-specific coaches (aligned to national sport organisations) deployed nationwide to a level where there is significant activity and impact.
They will work at a community level to improve the sporting experiences of all New Zealanders by providing assistance in recruiting, inducting, training, retaining and deploying coaches into clubs and schools.
Development stages
Stage 1: CoachForce Project
Establish a CoachForce presence to provide an on-going resource and a development programme to meet the needs of the athletes and sports. The successful implementation of the CoachForce model will ensure:
- More and better coaches in the community
- More people playing and enjoying sport
- A development pathway for coaches and athletes from local to national level.
The process to implement this is:
1. Establish a resource strategy and investment programme to assist in the recruitment, induction and retention of coaches regionally:
- Up to five key sports will be identified to deliver coaching regionally using the CoachForce model.
- Additionally, up to nine regional sports trusts will be identified to employ at least four full time coaches. These coaches will work with the respective national sport organisations in regionally important codes.
2. Pilot the CoachForce programme with national sport organisations and regional sports trusts through:
- Investment partnerships between SPARC, Gaming and Community Trusts, up to 70 full time coaches will work at the regional level
- Each coach being tasked with delivering the coaching objectives of their national sporting organisation which will be aligned to this strategy.
3. Validate the approach and grow the number of national sport organisations/regional sports trusts that have a CoachForce presence.
Stage 2: CoachCorp Project
CoachCorp is a partnership programme between sport and business that provides coaches with more time to coach. The aim is to secure time from employers to enable their staff to undertake coaching in the community. The programme is designed to realise mutual benefits to both business and sport. It is currently being piloted in Auckland City and is managed by Sport Auckland.
The process to implement this is:
- Complete the pilot evaluation
- Make adjustments based on evaluation findings
- Extend the programme nationally.
Tactic 3
Improve coach education requirements and qualifications.
[Long description]
Outcome
To have a clear Coach Education Framework that describes coaches' development needs, ensuring they are connected to their athletes' needs. The Coach Education Framework will be supported by appropriate qualifications.
Development stages
Stage 1: Athlete development and sport-specific projects
These projects will identify the coaching communities' unique requirements in terms of athlete development, and provide the focus for reviewing and designing the coach education framework.
- Establish, by community, generic coach development needs, ensuring they meet athletes' needs and relevant social and environmental issues, for example, physical literacy and parents as first coaches.
- National sport organisations establish sport-specific technical requirements for coaching communities that are integrated within generic coach development needs.
- Establish and publish, by coaching community, coaching education structures and programmes.
Stage 2: Coach education framework qualification project
Gain endorsement for the coach education framework from appropriate qualification bodies and SPARC as an investor of service providers.
Stage 3: Review education programme project
Providers review and update their education programmes in accordance with needs of the coaching communities and the coach education framework.
Tactic 4
Establish world-class coaching capability.
[Long description]
Outcome
Pilot the establishment of a world-class high performance coach development programme. Define the common generic coach roles, behaviours and skills. Establish a high performance coach development programme that forms the base of a world-class high performance environment. Evaluate the pilot and implement the relevant improvements to the development programmes of the
remaining coaching communities.
Development stages
Stage 1: Generic coach development project
Develop a coach education programme for carded coaches:
- Develop a generic coach role expectation and development plan.
- Pilot the development programme.
- Roll out to all carded coaches.
- Integrate the education programme in the Coach Education Framework.
Stage 2: World-class coaching programme project
Develop a programme for expert Carded Coaches who are aspiring to a world-class level.
- Establish core competencies for world-class coaches.
- Pilot the core competencies and world-class coaching development programme:
- Test and refine competencies
- Develop training and development programme requirements
- Establish an initial world-class coaching development programme
- Establish a New Zealand world-class coaching programme.
Tactic 5
Implement support and consultancy services.
[Long description]
Outcome
To ensure that all coaches, through their national sport organisations, have the tools, support and resources to develop and maintain a world-class coaching environment.
Development stages
Stage 1: Provide support tools
Establish support tools in conjunction with relevant coach experts through project teams. Examples of tools that national sport organisations can use and customise in their relevant communities include:
- Generic coach job description, performance review and development plan template
- Sport coach strategy and development programme
- Code of ethics
- Coach induction checklist
- Coach assessment profile
- Coaching community and communication approach template.
Stage 2: Establish SPARC coach support team
Establish a competent support team that can provide key players in coaching with support, advice and consultancy that assists in the realisation of the world-class coaching environment.
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Updated | 22 Mar 2007.
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