Developing your system Blog

New research commissioned

The Excellent Coaching Practice Project took a step forward this month when we commissioned our first piece of research. We are working with the University of Stirling and Scottish Hockey to: Identify Excellent Coaching Practice Along the Sporting Pathway. 

This is very...

Posted Monday, February 6, 2012 - 13:12 by jmcilroy with 0 comment(s)

Developing a Coaching Strategy: Swimming's Story

Our coaching strategy evolved in stages. We started by writing it to reflect the UK Coaching Framework but that didn’t quite work out so we decided to write a strategy that reflected what we wanted, and then cross-referenced it against the Framework, and refined and tweaked it accordingly. It worked much better for us this way round.

The processes we went through were participant-...

Posted Wednesday, June 22, 2011 - 13:25 by scohen with 0 comment(s)

Rugby League Case Study: Participant and Coach Development Models

Participation in Rugby League has increased 150 per cent in the last four years but there is still a shortage of players on a performance pathway. Rugby League is currently one of eight sports working closely with sports coach UK, utilising the UK Coaching Framework, to develop sport-specific Participant and Coach Development Models, and make workforce projections. We asked them...

Posted Tuesday, June 21, 2011 - 15:44 by scohen with 0 comment(s)