Welcome New Institute Blogger — Helen Williams
I have had the privilege of getting to know Helen over the past few years as she transitioned from her basketball coaching career into sport administration, and I am very happy to announce Helen is...
View ArticleCoaching Resource of the Month — November 2014
I highly recommend you check out Mike Davenport’s blog/website–the ISC Coaching Resource of the Month for Nov 2014. Mike Davenport writes the Coaching Sports Today blog and is an Eastern Shore of...
View ArticleWhy Do People Coach?
Why do people choose to coach? Is it for money or love of the game? Is it for altruistic reasons, a need for affiliation, or something else? I have often wondered if people ask themselves this question...
View ArticleAthlete-Centered Coaching & Servant-Leadership
There has been a bit of discussion regarding athlete-centered coaching on Twitter over the past few months. For the record, in most cases, I am in favor of having a coach adopt an athlete-centered...
View ArticleWelcome to Brad Stoffers—Latest ISC Blogger
A hearty welcome to Brad Stoffers, our latest addition to our blogger staff. We look forward to reading his contributions to the ISC blog. Brad Stoffers is the founder/principal of Stoffers Coaching...
View ArticleGift Ideas for Coaches–Sport Coach USA Essential Bookshelf
Looking for the right gift for the coach in your life? Check out the Institute’s Sport Coach USA Essential Bookshelf. Topics covered include: Analysis of Sport Performance Coaching Leadership Coaching...
View ArticleWinter 2014 Reading Recommendations for Coaches
So no reading recommendations for the fall–things got away from me as usual. Plus these recommendations are just in time for the holiday shopping season. I have three recommendations for coaches to...
View ArticleDifferent Strokes for Different Folks: Coaching a Variety of Learning Styles
As a coach, it is easy (lazy) to assume the only way athletes learn is the same way you learn. In fact, research in education tells us there are multiple ways of learning information as well as...
View ArticleCoaching Resource of the Month–Dec 2013
A growing movement in sport is the long term athlete development concept (LTAD). Leading this movement are a number of folks in Canada including their national sport agencies who sponsor our December...
View ArticleThe Value of Quality Trained Sport Coaches
The Institute for Sport Coaching recognizes that there is a unique body of knowledge vital to enabling sport coaches to effectively perform their many roles. Formal coaching education programs are a...
View ArticleAre You Visually Impaired?
“Seeing is believing.” At least that’s the creed some people live by. But what about the reverse, “Believing is seeing?” We talk about visualization to our players hoping to help them be successful,...
View ArticleThe Other Head Injury
Concussions are very serious business for athletes and their families to deal with, however, there is another head injury that requires our attention as well–vision damage. Each year approximately...
View ArticleCoaching Resource of the Month — January 2014
Over the past few months, I have really enjoyed reading Jeff Mitchell’s blog about coaching development called Coach Growth. Jeff is a community coach developer in New Zealand. He covers many topics in...
View ArticleCoaching Resource of the Month — February 2014
Sportlyzer has researched the many available sport coaching software packages available. They developed a list with brief descriptions of the online and offline tools to plan & analyze training,...
View ArticleWelcome to new Institute Sponsor–JUGS Sports
The Institute welcomes JUGS Sports as sponsor of our Coaching Resource of the Month webpage. JUGS Sports is the leading producer of baseball and softball training aids including baseball and softball...
View ArticleFriday Night Tykes–What a Nightmare!!!
Friday Night Tykes shows scary outcomes of untrained coaches It’s quite simple: a well-trained coach leads to successful, healthy and confident players, while a poorly trained coach results in a team...
View ArticleThe Power of Visualization & the Beatles
In the opening seconds of the Beatles song, http://www.instituteforsportcoaching.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/12-Get-Back.m4a, you can hear John Lennon providing instruction, “…picture your fingers.”...
View ArticleHow Sport Coaches Learn
I love surfing through the SportsCoachUK website. Nothing like it based in the US. Chuck full of information for coaches and those who develop them. Never disappointed when I go there for information...
View ArticleBe Who We Be
“Be who we be. If we be who we ain’t, we ain’t who we be.” I said this to my team once in a pregame speech. What I wanted them to understand was that if we expected to be successful and reach the goals...
View ArticleCoaching Resource of the Month — March 2014
This is long overdue but March 2014′s Coaching Resource of the Month is SportsCoachUK’s blog. SportsCoachUK has a team of sport coach specialists blogging on a number of issues directly related to...
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