ConnectedCoaches by ConnectedCoaches

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ConnectedCoaches is UK Coaching's (formerly Sports Coach UK) free online community for coaches of any sport or activity. Our podcasts are recordings of blogs posted on www.connectedcoaches.org

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What's ConnectedCoaches about?

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ConnectedCoaches episodes:

How to Celebrate Success with Your Young Players

Self-Talk and the Power of Flexible Thinking

Life as a Head Coach - Occasionally Fraught but Always Immensely

Paralympic Greats Deliver Language Lesson to Sports Coaches

Ask Not What Your Player Can Do For Your Club But What Your Club Can Do For Your Player

Guest UK Coaching Podcast: The Creative Use of Space

"I can coach my son better than you" - Dealing with critical parents

Strategies for children’s coaches to help them engage more effectively with parents

Coaching insights on the practical implementation of competition strategies – Part 2

Coaching insights on the practical implementation of competition strategies – Part 1

What is more important, how you coach children or what you coach them?

Bridging the gender divide: Advice for women coaches on taking over a men’s team

How to coach a range of abilities within a large group

Exploring the key psychological attributes that underpin performance success

The Power (or Pointlessness) of Silence

Can you coach leadership? Are leaders born or made? What does effective leadership look like?

The art of practice: Intentional training a model way of embedding new skills

Understanding time and how to save it

No exit! The secrets to keeping today’s youth actively engaged in sport

Equip your children with a starter pack that will sustain them through the rest of their lives

Training may sometimes have to be gruelling but it should always be fun

How to Create a Relational Coaching Environment

Tri-umphant transition: Making the step up from assistant coach to head coach at your club

Juggling act: The challenges of managing a coaching career around motherhood

What are the differences in coaching boys and girls?

The importance of making your sessions fun and engaging for 5–12 year olds

Don’t be a dope! The scourge of drugs in sport is everybody’s problem

The importance of motivating players and the crucial role coaches play

Chemistry lesson: A formula for coaches who have ever felt ostracised by their own players

Having to gel teenagers and adults in the same team should not be a sticky situation for coaches

Guest UK Coaching Podcast: Interview with the Cranes

The secrets to building a more productive relationship with problem players

The psychology of success: Strategies for coping on the big occasion

Digging for diamonds: Talent identification process values potential over performance

Age-old debate: Crossing the divide between coaching adults and children

How to negotiate your first baby steps as a coach

Two sides to every story: How to get the most out of your club’s adult performers

How to successfully integrate club players into county and national squads

Guest UK Coaching Podcast: An Interview with para-javelin coach Dave Turner

Don't use the F word: Helping children deal with failure

Help or hindrance: The use of video analysis to aid player development

Critics

Simon says: Put your hands in the air if you think you can learn from a heavy defeat

Flagging up key periods of development in a newly formed team

Golden nuggets: Dietary advice you can trust from Team GB’s Head Nutritionist

How to prepare for an event, game or tournament

Blessed or stressed? Dealing with pressure in sport

Why do coaches still shy away from using TGfU and CLA in their sessions?

Filling in the Blanks: Negotiating the Grey Areas

Pre-mortem and reflective practice make a deadly combination