{"id":1806,"date":"2018-07-02T04:33:53","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T04:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickhillcoaching.com\/?p=1806"},"modified":"2018-07-08T21:11:54","modified_gmt":"2018-07-08T21:11:54","slug":"how-player-centred-coaching-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nickhillcoaching.com\/?p=1806","title":{"rendered":"HOW Player-centred Coaching… i"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How to build a Team Culture…<\/strong><\/p>\n

First up I will share with you where building a Team Culture fits within the Player-centred Coaching Philosophy\/Approach…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Some key components of an Athlete-centred Approach: \u201c…establishing a quality team culture (wairua).\u201d (p.18 Athlete-centred Coaching by Lynn Kidman, 2005).<\/p>\n

What is Culture…?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I will share with you various definitions of what Culture means in a sporting context…<\/p>\n

From Wade Gilbert\u2019s: Coaching Better Every Season (2017)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The section on p.18 sub-headed: \u201cCreating a Winning Team Culture\u201d:-<\/p>\n

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\u201cTeam Culture has been defined as a pattern of shared assumptions that guides behaviour.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCulture comprises both the obvious artefacts of the team… and the less obvious norms and rituals.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c…the way we do things around here.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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I have been very fortunate to learn from Wade firsthand where I was able to listen to Wade present and share his knowledge, research and experiences about Team Culture on two occasions at Vern Gambetta\u2019s GAIN IX and GAIN X at Rice University in the USA…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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As you can see from one of his key slides at GAIN IX, Core Values are one of the 4 key things to build a Culture of Excellence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Then at GAIN X Wade shared the key process that he writes about in his book Coaching Better Every Season. He splits the season into 4 parts and as you can see Vision, Core Values and Behaviour Standards are key parts of the Pre-season process.<\/p>\n

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Prior to GAIN X, during early June 2017 I read his book. As I was going through the book I was able to relate to many of the things and tips that Wade was sharing which affirmed I am on the right Coaching Philosophy path. I was also able to add a few more things to my Coaching Process to continue to reflect and refine what I do. Below I share the Four Es of the annual coaching process…<\/p>\n

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\u201cPre-season: Envision… Define what mattes and what\u2019s possible this season\u201d (Coaching Better Every Season by Wade Gilbert 2017, p.???)<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This could be translated into \u201cHow do you want to be remembered…?\u201d and\/or \u201cWhat is it going to take…?\u201d and what goals for the season will be set.<\/p>\n

Wade goes into great depths in each of the 4 sections of the book and I highly recommend that any coach of any level reads this book.<\/p>\n

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\u201cCulture: Culture drives expectations and beliefs; expectations and beliefs drive behaviour; behaviour drives habits; and habits create the future. It all starts with culture.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Denstone College 2005 to 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A key part, as you have seen in the information I have shared from the books I have read, of building a Team Culture is involving your players and empowering them to set the \u2018Standards and Expectations\u2019 where they then take ownership of these and police the behaviours within their team.<\/p>\n

\u201c…the vision must be mutually created or athletes must buy into an existing vision.\u201d (p.21, Athlete-centred Coaching by Lynn Kidman, 2005)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From 2005 to 2008 this process was much more Coach driven because my players had never been through this process before and had never been in a Player-centred Coaching environment. I also didn\u2019t use many videos during this time either. It wasn\u2019t until after I had visited Nudgee College (the school that has produced the most Wallaby rugby players) in Brisbane, Australia for 2 weeks in July 2009 and then the Canterbury Crusaders (the most successful Super Rugby franchise in the history of the competition) for 3 weeks in August 2009 that I started to use videos every season and before every 1st XV match.<\/p>\n

To help this facilitation from 2009 to 2013 I would have a wider 1st XV training squad for pre- season camps that would include U15 players all the way up to the 1st XV (U18) players. With the players moving up through the school you get to know and understand who the leaders are in the various teams as you walk around school, observe them in the Dining Hall, teach them in various lessons and coach them on the games field. This would mean that the future leaders of the 1st XV squad would have seen, experienced and observed on 3 occasions this Goal Setting process, therefore when it became their turn they knew exactly what to do and say at the right moment in time.<\/p>\n

So for each season at the beginning of the process I would create a motivational video to show the players and inspire them to become the best that they could become…<\/p>\n

Here are some of the key themes that I would have throughout each video which would either be videos, photos or text writing…<\/p>\n