#276 Sarah Green - Broadening your Coaching Skillset
Apr 1, 2024
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Sarah Green, UEFA A Licence Coach, discusses transitioning from football to netball coaching, expanding coaching skills through academic exploration, using bandwidth feedback in coaching sessions, and building a structured coaching environment to enhance player performance and mindset coaching strategies.
Creating desirable difficulty scenarios in training to foster resilience and team cohesion.
Establishing a psychological informed environment to enhance mental skills and teamwork.
Implementing bandwidth feedback strategy to promote cognitive adaptability and skillful neglect.
Deep dives
Developing Players' Ability to Cope and Thrive
Creating desirable difficulty scenarios in training to help players cope, adapt, and thrive under challenging circumstances. By intentionally disrupting decision-making processes, players were encouraged to own personal errors and adapt swiftly, fostering resilience and improving team cohesion.
Creating Safe Learning Environments for Players
Establishing a psychological informed environment to nurture mental skills and teamwork by prioritizing clarity and creativity. Utilizing activities like ultimate frisbee to instigate decision-making challenges, enhancing focus, emotional regulation, and promoting cooperative communication.
Guiding Feedback Through Bandwidth Feedback Strategy
Implementing bandwidth feedback strategy to provide players with clear, focused feedback, allowing them to anticipate coaching directions and informing their decision-making processes. Encouraging players to generate their feedback, enhancing cognitive adaptability and promoting skillful neglect towards irrelevant information.
Reflecting on Coaching Practices: Strengths-Based Coaching
Reflecting on previous coaching practices and adapting a strengths-based coaching approach to enhance player performance and team cohesion. Using spotlight and mindflick tools to create a positive team environment, resulting in successful team dynamics and improved outcomes.
Managing Momentum and Building Circuit Breakers
Recognizing the importance of managing momentum in team performance and providing coaches with strategies to build circuit breakers to navigate shifts in performance dynamics. Emphasizing the significance of grounding techniques, both for players under pressure and coaches making critical decisions.
Promoting Self-Awareness and Mindset Management
Facilitating discussions among coaches to enhance self-awareness and cultivate positive mindsets under pressure. Encouraging coaches to adopt circuit-breaking techniques to shift from unhelpful to helpful mindsets and establish a supportive coaching environment.
I’m delighted to speak with Sarah Green this week. Sarah is a UEFA A Licence Coach, coach developer and MSc student who is passionate about developing people. Sarah is Performance Coach Developer at England Netball where she works with coaches in the performance pathway (Roses Academy & Franchise Pathways) providing individualised support to develop their coaching practice and behaviours. Sarah also supports potential performance coaches through a coach development programme. Sarah is also Head of Performance at Derby County Women’s Football Club
Previously, Sarah worked at The FA for 11 years. She was part of The FA Tesco Skills Programme which was a pioneering programme for 5-11-year olds delivering specialist National Curriculum football-based education. Sarah then progressed to Regional PE and Coaching in Education Manager in the East Midlands working with The Premier League to support professional football clubs with their coach development.
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