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ConnectedCoaches

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 Become... Read more

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

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

What do you do when a parent questions your ability to coach the team? In this podcast Content Champion Simon Browning t... Read more

16 Apr 2018

Ranked #2

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

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

Member Gordon MacLelland is a leading voice on the coach-parent-child triad. In this podcast he explains why building a ... Read more

9 Apr 2018

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Guest UK Coaching Podcast: The Creative Use of Space

Guest UK Coaching Podcast: The Creative Use of Space

How can we use or look at spaces more creatively to increase the opportunities to become physically active? That is the ... Read more

25 May 2018

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

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

It is imperative that a coach manufactures an environment where players become responsible for their own learning. Intro... Read more

12 Mar 2018

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How to coach a range of abilities within a large group

How to coach a range of abilities within a large group

This podcast provides advice on how to keep every participant engaged and challenged in sessions, maintaining individual... Read more

26 Feb 2018

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Exploring the key psychological attributes that underpin performance success

Exploring the key psychological attributes that underpin performance success

Nick Levett details the four behavioural traits he ranks foremost in importance, and explains why it is imperative coach... Read more

19 Feb 2018

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

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

Dan Abrahams is a former professional golfer and golf coach turned sports psychologist and author. Headhunted recently b... Read more

29 Jan 2018

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How to Create a Relational Coaching Environment

How to Create a Relational Coaching Environment

Relational coaching is the ways coaches and athletes connect to bring about performance success and personal satisfactio... Read more

11 Dec 2017

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

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

ConnectedCoaches Community Champion Kate Offord discusses the challenges she has faced in making the transition to head ... Read more

4 Dec 2017

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

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

For ConnectedCoaches Community Champion Andrew Beaven, ‘failure’ is a taboo word. Not failure itself – when you are lea... Read more

14 Aug 2017

9mins

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

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

In the second of a two-part feature on the Cardiff Valkyries American football team, Simon Browning reflects on the coa... Read more

24 Jul 2017

12mins

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What makes up a good coaching session?

What makes up a good coaching session?

Coaches should adhere to a framework of core elements when delivering their sessions. ConnectedCoaches Content Champion... Read more

1 May 2017

12mins

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Let the creative sparks fly: The ‘C’ system, chapter two

Let the creative sparks fly: The ‘C’ system, chapter two

In the previous podcast, we paid homage to the ‘C’ system as a highly effective framework that coaches can use to encou... Read more

10 Apr 2017

12mins

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A coaching system that will help you C the light!

A coaching system that will help you C the light!

The ‘C’ system is a holistic coaching model that delivers on all fronts, supporting the development of the whole child ... Read more

3 Apr 2017

9mins

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Learning behaviour change strategies will ensure your athletes keep coming back for more

Learning behaviour change strategies will ensure your athletes keep coming back for more

Tennis Activator and ConnectedCoaches member Suzzi Garnett discusses how behaviour change tactics have boosted her drive... Read more

9 Feb 2017

11mins

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How to develop behavioural agility in your coaching to get the best out of yourself and your players

How to develop behavioural agility in your coaching to get the best out of yourself and your players

In part four of our series on emotional intelligence, we look at recognising when to dial up and dial down your emotions... Read more

31 Jan 2017

11mins

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Dealing with feelings: The importance of getting your head around emotion perception

Dealing with feelings: The importance of getting your head around emotion perception

Emotion perception is a key component of emotional intelligence. In the third chapter of our series with behavioural exp... Read more

31 Jan 2017

10mins

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How to Celebrate Success with Your Young Players

How to Celebrate Success with Your Young Players

There is a certain artistry to administering praise, calling for careful observation and informed intervention – with th... Read more

8 Oct 2018

Ranked #19

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Self-Talk and the Power of Flexible Thinking

Self-Talk and the Power of Flexible Thinking

Sports psychologist of the England rugby union team and AFC Bournemouth, Dan Abrahams, lauds the benefits of self-talk a... Read more

1 Oct 2018

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Life as a Head Coach - Occasionally Fraught but Always Immensely

Life as a Head Coach - Occasionally Fraught but Always Immensely

It has been two years since Community Champion Kate Offord featured in our article and podcast ‘Tri-umphant transition: ... Read more

24 Sep 2018

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