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Author: Jamie Birch🔥 Date: Category: Likes: 0 URL: https://www.skool.com/coachingacademy/question-for-coaches-networking
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Steve Miles
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Steve Miles • Aug 21FA Coaching mentors are few and far between, have spoken to my local FA about one and am still awaiting a responseI am fortunate to work for a football foundation, so regularly work with and observe many other coaches, as well as those I work with at the clubs I coach forHave connected with a couple within this group as well as several om Twitter and via another coach that runs regular CPD eventsAll of this has made me a better coach2Reply
Steve Miles
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Steve Miles • Aug 21FA Coaching mentors are few and far between, have spoken to my local FA about one and am still awaiting a responseI am fortunate to work for a football foundation, so regularly work with and observe many other coaches, as well as those I work with at the clubs I coach forHave connected with a couple within this group as well as several om Twitter and via another coach that runs regular CPD eventsAll of this has made me a better coach2Reply
Steve Miles
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Steve Miles • Aug 21FA Coaching mentors are few and far between, have spoken to my local FA about one and am still awaiting a responseI am fortunate to work for a football foundation, so regularly work with and observe many other coaches, as well as those I work with at the clubs I coach forHave connected with a couple within this group as well as several om Twitter and via another coach that runs regular CPD eventsAll of this has made me a better coach2Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Aug 21@Steve Miles that’s great to hear Steve! Looks like you have a great approach to it. A mentor doesn’t have to be an FA one, just someone you respect and admire that’s a good sounding board for you2Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • Aug 21Great post.I have no idea how many coaches are in my network.I’m currently mentoring a few coach and have space for some more.I used to go observe all the time, but I’ve been slacking recentlyA fraction! It would be great if more reached out as I’ve learned so much from everyone1Reply
Chris Unruh
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Chris Unruh • Aug 22I would say I have about 6-8 at my current club that I really respect and have open communication with. I also know a professional women’s hockey coach in the PWHL, my uncle and father both played and coached various college, provincial, national and Olympic teams. My cousin is a sports agent too. I honestly think that the network has been a very important part of my personal success because for most of my life it hasn’t been an untouchable feat to be aprofessional coach when two people sitting … See more3Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • Aug 22@Chris Unruh Loved reading this 👏 Coaching is such a unique job or role because you never know who you’re going to meet or who you’re going to interact with.2Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Aug 22Coaching is in the blood mate! Love that. Really like that you have a coach in your network in another sport, there’s lots we can learn from coaches in other games. Pep for example has spoken about taking ideas from Basketball. Not just that, how they deliver, they’re leadership style etc will all be learning points that can transfer into our game.1Reply
Chris Unruh
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Chris Unruh • Aug 22@Jamie Birch I recall several years ago Pep and the Boston Celtics head coaches did something like a 1 week internships with each other and then gave feedback and insights on how they thought each other coached or strategized and what one sport could take from the other. It was very interesting.Soccer is so much more fluid than sports like basketball, volleyball or American football but I think there’s still principles you can pull across.1Reply
Chris Unruh
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Chris Unruh • Aug 22But when you watch other sports critically and say what could a soccer player learn in principle from how people play other sports it’s very interesting. The same kid can stand absolutely static in a build out or make no attempt besides a straight line run but then plays flag football with his buddies and makes every effort imaginable to get open and is very dynamic. So it’s pulling those principles across where I find the gold.1Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Aug 22@Chris Unruh Agree mate - outside of what we can pull from a playing perspective, a great teacher is a great teacher regardless of what sport it is so i love the point about observing other sports.0Reply
Ross Whitehead🔥
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Ross Whitehead🔥 • Aug 22I follow loads of coaches on Twitter, and I would watch the coaches that help take my daughter’s team. Also, a couple of the dad’s at school are also Grassroots coaches, and we have had some good chats and exchanged ideas at some of the school events.My son started playing cricket this summer, and the coaches were really good with all the boys (no matter their ability or if they made a silly mistake) they were full of encouragement. Then I look at myself and think can I be more like that?2Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • Aug 22@Ross Whitehead I think there’s a balance. So it’s not praising for praise’s sake.David Baird talks about this quite a lot. It’s making sure that you encourage, but you aren’t encouraging behaviour or values you don’t think fit the environment or over praising someone for an obvious mistake1Reply
Ross Whitehead🔥
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Ross Whitehead🔥 • Aug 22@Kevin Middleton It’s a fine line. In the past I might have jumped straight in with a critical word and tried to correct things immediately.1Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Aug 22Great reflection example with the cricket coaches. Did you change anything based on that?1Reply
Ross Whitehead🔥
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Ross Whitehead🔥 • Aug 22@Jamie Birch Yes, I’m trying to be a bit more understanding about mistakes. The kids aren’t doing it deliberately, so I’m trying to cut them a little more slack.1Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Aug 22@Ross Whitehead sounds simple but that’s a great take away mate. Have you watched the David Gold interview yet, he talks about letting people make mistakes. Has a really good take on it1Reply