The Coaching Process: a practical guide to improving your effectiveness

by Stephanie J. Hanrahan, Lynn Kidman

This book provides a concise, up-to-date background for effective coaching. It focuses on the 'how to' of coaching. It provides practical strategies that coaches use to improve their own coaching. This book also aids coaches in developing approaches to produce an environment conducive to athletes' enjoyment and success. It is designed as a self-teaching text to help coaches develop skills and to provide them with awareness of the factors which can promote the performance and enjoyment of their athletes. The skilled coach is one who is capable of maximising the benefit that athletes take from the training session and integrating that benefit into the competitive context. The Coaching Process emphasises coaches' instructional role and aims to help them understand the learning processes involved from both the coach and athlete perspectives. To this end, it covers the pedagogical, psychological and sociological aspects of coaching.

204 pages, Paperback

Published December 12, 1997