Labours of Sport Coaching: The Science and Art of Coaching, Motivation, and Self-Determination

The problem with coach observations


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Coach observations come with benefits for aiding behavioural understanding and improvement in coaching, but we don't discuss their innate problems enough. Yet we seem to rely on observational data or perception at an increasing rate for coach education and sense making. Coach observations carry baggage, in terms of their validity and reliability and in this episode I flesh out this problem. Both through the scientific lens and the relational lens of coaching, which are best viewed - and used - synergistically to achieve meaningful learning while mitigating against errors. This conversation serve to elaborate on an argument I started in a previous episode: The information fallacy in coach behaviour change.


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Labours of Sport Coaching: The Science and Art of Coaching, Motivation, and Self-DeterminationBy Dr Mark James Carroll