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
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
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 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 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
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
“…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
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
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
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