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Creating and Developing a Quality Team Culture

Posted on March 22, 2020March 25, 2020 by NickHillCoaching
Planning a rugby programme in my environment isn’t as simple as designing training sessions to optimise performance. Players must balance academic, internship, and job commitments with their rugby o... Read More

WHAT Create and Develop a Team Culture…

Posted on August 14, 2018 by NickHillCoaching
This week I will focus on WHAT Culture is as over the last few weeks I have written quite a few articles about WHY & HOW Culture and also interacted in Paul Hunter’s Twitter conversation on the ... Read More

HOW Create a Team Culture… Rites, Rituals, Routines and Artefacts

Posted on July 16, 2018 by NickHillCoaching
So much is out there on “Culture” it is sometimes hard to know where to look and what to look for…?! A quick Google search brings up 4,920,000,000 results when you type “Culture” into the se... Read More

HOW Player-centred Coaching… ii

Posted on July 8, 2018July 8, 2018 by NickHillCoaching
How to build a Team Culture… First up I will share with you where building a Team Culture fits within the Player-centred Coaching Philosophy/Approach… Some key components of an Athlete-cen... Read More

HOW Player-centred Coaching… i

Posted on July 2, 2018July 8, 2018 by NickHillCoaching
How to build a Team Culture… First up I will share with you where building a Team Culture fits within the Player-centred Coaching Philosophy/Approach… Some key components of an Athlete-cen... Read More

What makes GAIN…? (GAIN XI 2018)

Posted on June 18, 2018July 2, 2018 by NickHillCoaching
Having just landed back home after another amazing professional development week during GAIN XI at Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA, I’d thought I would share with you, through photos, snipp... Read More

Old Wine… New Bottles… DIFFERENT STICKERS ii Learning Theories

Posted on June 8, 2018June 10, 2018 by NickHillCoaching
  “…from its inception, the interpretation of TGfU has been through the prism of discovery learning (Cobb and Yackel 1996; Phillips 1995). It was only in the 1990s that PE pedagogues later as... Read More

Old Wine… New Bottles… DIFFERENT STICKERS…

Posted on May 20, 2018May 20, 2018 by NickHillCoaching
One of the reasons for writing my Blogs is to share some of the research out there and bring it to life. This Blog Article is inspired by this research article by Stephen Harvey, Shane Pill and Len Al... Read More

WHY Player-centred Coaching… ii

Posted on May 6, 2018May 6, 2018 by NickHillCoaching
Comparing Coach and Player Centred Coaching… As I have already said over the last couple of weeks, if coaches/teachers/parents are more aware of the differences between these two approaches/phil... Read More

WHY Player-centred Coaching…

Posted on April 29, 2018 by NickHillCoaching
  A key starting point I think is to make coaches more aware as to WHY they should use a Player-centred Coaching approach rather than a Coach-centred one… If coaches understand the WHY then the... Read More
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  • The PE Playbook – June 2018 Edition – drowningintheshallow on What makes GAIN…? (GAIN XI 2018)

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  • Coaching Journey
    • Northamptonshire Grammar School
    • Denstone College
    • Nudgee College, Brisbane
    • Canterbury Crusaders
    • Ulster Rugby
    • Brian Ashton Kukri Academy
    • The Grange School, Santiago, Chile
    • The Greenhouse School, Temuco, Chile
    • GAIN VIII, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
      • GAIN VIII Mission 2015
    • Temuco Rugby Club, Temuco, Chile
    • Old Boys Rugby Club, Santiago, Chile
    • GAIN IX, Rice University, Houston Texas, USA
      • GAIN IX Reading List 2016
    • Brisbane Grammar School
    • Fiji 7s pre-Rio Olympic Games Training Camp, Santiago, Chile
    • England Rugby Training
    • GAIN X
  • Philosophy of Coaching
    • Long-term Player Development
    • The BETTER Performance Pyramid
    • The ‘360 degree’ Rugby Player
    • Player-Centred Coaching
      • Team Culture
      • ‘Teaching Games for Understanding’ (‘TGfU’)
      • Questioning
    • Principles of Play
    • Tactical Periodisation
    • Athletic Development
  • Principles of Coaching
    • Whole-Part-Whole
    • Purposeful Deliberate Training
    • ‘Questioning’
    • Constraints-led Coaching
    • ‘Teaching Games for Understanding’ (‘TGfU’)
    • Implicit Learning
    • Coaching Process
    • Conditioned Games
      • Attack Focus Games
      • Defence Focus Games
      • Counter Attack Focus Games
  • BLOG
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