Sports Coaching: A Case Study

The way a coach behaves underpins the coaching process and ensures sports coaching is conducted in a positive and inclusive manner (Reference). Coaches must be able to promote and maintain this behaviour effectively by demonstrating good communication and motivational skills, encouraging and rewarding behaviour when positive and challenging when inappropriate.

Coaches need to set specific guidelines and ground rules for each session in order to prevent any behavioural issues from occurring and having a negative impact (Reference). They must always be professional and act as good role models by having a positive image and maintaining good practice to be effective within their coaching (Reference).

It is important to access training and acquire

appropriate skills to learn how to deal with negativity and prevent disagreements when situations arise e.g. when participants are lacking in confidence, have poor self-esteem and use, discrimination etc... Coaches need to be able to challenge individual behaviour before it can influence others and identify and manage risks and deal with them according to the coach’s code of conduct. They must at all times be aware of the power they have in their relationships with participants and avoid any intimacy (Reference).