Coaches should ask genuine questions to foster growth and knowledge expansion in players.
Knowledge is about direct perception and action, evolving through immersion and responsiveness to the environment.
Encouraging genuine player development involves posing sincere questions, adapting responses, and shifting focus from wins to meaningful engagement in sports and academia.
Deep dives
Embracing Uncertainty in Coaching Approach
Coaches can foster growth by posing questions rooted in sincerity and uncertainty. Genuine questions originate from uncertainty rather than a desire to control outcomes, leading to rich interactions and knowledge growth. By encouraging exploration and responses without preconceived answers, coaches can help players expand their understanding of their environment and responses to different scenarios.
Knowledge as an Ecological Process
Understanding knowing as an ecological process emphasizes direct perception and action. Knowledge is not vested in verbal responses or preconceived labels but in how individuals interact and respond to their surroundings. Genuine knowing evolves through immersion and responsiveness to environmental cues, challenging the traditional idea of knowledge as a commodified, easily transferable commodity.
Enhancing Player Growth through Genuine Correspondence
Encouraging players to grow involves posing questions genuinely and observing responses without a predetermined outcome. By changing environmental features based on observations and generating dialogue from uncertainty, coaches can establish a meaningful correspondence that allows for adaptive learning and dynamic growth. Rather than prescribing fixed answers, fostering an approach of sincere questioning and responsive adaptation nurtures genuine player development.
Emphasis on Reevaluating Coaching and Academic Criteria
Challenging the traditional focus on wins and losses in coaching, the podcast highlights the need for a systemic overhaul in both sports and academia. It questions the emphasis on metrics like publications and grants in academia, suggesting a shift towards embracing amateurism fueled by genuine love and joy in coaching and academic inquiry. The episode asserts that the systemic issues, imposed by national standards and professionalized criteria, hinder the true enjoyment of coaching and academic pursuits by emphasizing metrics over personal engagement.
Importance of Experiential Learning and Humility in Coach Development
The podcast underscores the significance of experiential learning and humility in coach development. Drawing parallels from Icelandic fishermen's informal learning process, the episode emphasizes that real coaching comes from hands-on experience and developing relational skills with players and within an organization. It discusses redefining education as leading people into the world to foster discomfort and growth through exposure to surroundings. The importance of humility is highlighted, suggesting that true professionals are not those who know all the answers but those who guide others to explore and learn sensitively from their environment.
This week my guest is Dr Carl Woods who is a Senior Research Fellow in Skill Acquisition at Victoria University in Melbourne Australia who enjoys exploring and knowing at an ecological anthropological intersection in sport.
I had heard Carl on a number of podcasts and was so excited to be able to spend some time listening to his view on the world which I have to say I love.
There is no real intro on the chat as we hit the ground running and just got straight in to it.
I am very grateful to be able to do this podcasts and have such great guests and a loyal community, if you listen often I just want to say thank you and I hope you enjoy them as much as I love doing them.
