UK Coaching Podcasts

The UK Coaching team and an expert panel explore the impact of building positive relationships with parents and the effect on athletes. Understanding and developing the relationship between coach, parent and athlete has the potential to transform your coaching environment and the experience of the people you coach. Join the UK Coaching team and an expert panel to explore the impact of building positive relationships with parents, the effect on athletes and the influence that coaches can have on maximising the potential in these connections. Want to be part of the Curious Coaches' Club? Fuel your curiosity by joining our experts every Monday for an engaging and insightful online coaching discussion at ukcoaching.org/curious. Whatever your role, if you're helping people to be active and improve, we're here for you. Visit UKCoaching.org to grow your coaching skills and be part of the community.

Most coaches have a network of people they trust and can call upon. The UK Coaching team explore ideas for growing your network. Most coaches have a network of people they trust and can call upon for advice, help and guidance. However, most of us don't harness it to maximum effect or plan the growth of it deliberately. In this session, the UK Coaching team explore ways to grow your network and to utilise it to: stay on top of the latest trends meet mentors meet fellow coaches gain access to the resources that will support your development. Want to be part of the Curious Coaches' Club? Fuel your curiosity by joining our experts every Monday for an engaging and insightful online coaching discussion at ukcoaching.org/curious. Whatever your role, if you're helping people to be active and improve, we're here for you. Visit UKCoaching.org to grow your coaching skills and be part of the community.

Olympian Adam Peaty's coach Mel Marshall considers how to develop an empowering environment that fosters greatness, all wrapped up in the importance of how to become the best coach you can be. How do you take someone from having a fear of water to becoming a world record-holding athlete and the fastest swimmer in the world? In this session, Olympian Adam Peaty's coach Mel Marshall explores how to develop an empowering environment that fosters greatness, all wrapped up in the importance of how to become the best coach you can be. Want to be part of the Curious Coaches' Club? Fuel your curiosity by joining our experts every Monday for an engaging and insightful online coaching discussion at ukcoaching.org/curious.   Whatever your role, if you're helping people to be active and improve, we're here for you. Visit UKCoaching.org to grow your coaching skills and be part of the community.  

Stuart Armstrong (The Talent Equation podcast) and Kendal McWade (Golf Coach) explore the concept of skill acquisition. To help people improve at their chosen activity, having some understanding of skill acquisition principles is essential. In this session, Stuart Armstrong (The Talent Equation podcast) and Kendal McWade (Golf Coach) explore the concept of skill acquisition and discuss practical solutions and ideas to help you put together effective coaching sessions, including in relation to distance coaching.  Want to be part of the Curious Coaches' Club? Fuel your curiosity by joining our experts every Monday for an engaging and insightful online coaching discussion at ukcoaching.org/curious Whatever your role, if you're helping people to be active and improve, we're here for you. Visit UKCoaching.org to grow your coaching skills and be part of the community.

Jack Rolfe, founder of The Coaching Lab, and Darren Lamon, Academy Coach Development Officer and Head of Women’s Rugby at Sale Sharks, join the Club to discuss the use of games principles in coaching. It’s the question we possibly get asked most as coaches and leaders of sport and physical activity: 'but really, when are we going to play a game?'. In this session, Jack and Darren navigate the use of games principles in coaching. They explore supporting players to explore and learn, encouraging creative thinking and problem-solving, and creating environments for players to grow individually. Want to be part of the Curious Coaches' Club? Fuel your curiosity by joining our experts every Monday for an engaging and insightful online coaching discussion at ukcoaching.org/curious. Whatever your role, if you're helping people to be active and improve, we're here for you. Visit UKCoaching.org to grow your coaching skills and be part of the community.

  Reflecting on their discussion in the previous podcast, Kevin Till and Chris Chapman consider what talent identification can look like for a coach. Talent identification across a pathway is about preparing athletes for their long-term development – where are they likely to go in the sport over the next 10 or 15 years? Kevin talks through the performance model, which looks to understand the developmental components that athletes need to be successful, and can be used by coaches to develop a holistic approach to their groups. Whatever your role, if you're helping people to be active and improve, we're here for you. Visit UKCoaching.org to grow your coaching skills and be part of the community.  

Performance Consultant Grant Downie joins UK Coaching’s Paul Thompson and Tim Hartley on the April 27 edition of the Curious Coaches’ Club. Often as coaches we don’t work alone; at many levels of sport and activity we are usually coaching in a pair or within a bigger team of coaches. Grant, who has worked with Manchester City and Cirque Du Soleil, among many others, discusses how creating the right culture for how we work together can be difficult, but it has the potential to transform the experience of the people we coach. Want to be part of the Curious Coaches' Club? Fuel your curiosity by joining our experts every Monday for an engaging and insightful online coaching discussion at ukcoaching.org/curious Whatever your role, if you're helping people to be active and improve, we're here for you. Visit UKCoaching.org to grow your coaching skills and be part of the community.

In this Curious Coaches’ Club, UK Coaching’s Head of Coaching, Nick Levett, is joined by pro footballer-turned head coach, Joey Barton, and ex-GB diver Georgia Davenport, now a talent coach. Dealing with change can be difficult and a big challenge for many people. With ex-elite athletes Joey and Georgina, we explore the changes experienced, the challenges overcome and all the learning in-between, as they moved from athlete to coach, in what proves to be a fascinating and thought-provoking session. Want to be part of the Curious Coaches' Club? Fuel your curiosity by joining our experts every Monday for an engaging and insightful online coaching discussion at ukcoaching.org/curious Whatever your role, if you're helping people to be active and improve, we're here for you. Visit UKCoaching.org to grow your coaching skills and be part of the community.

Coach Developers Tom Hartley and Alan Rapley lead the April 14 Curious Coaches’ Club discussion on developing yourself, the coach, and developing your athletes. Do you sometimes struggle to find time to put your thoughts into actions? We know it can be a real challenge for all of us! This discussion shares ideas that could help solve this and provides some examples and strategies for practically developing yourself and your athletes. It also explores a reframe of the classic ‘Plan, Do, Review’ approach, and how to turn those thoughts into reality. Want to be part of the Curious Coaches' Club? Fuel your curiosity by joining our experts every Monday for an engaging and insightful online coaching discussion at ukcoaching.org/curious Whatever your role, if you're helping people to be active and improve, we're here for you. Visit UKCoaching.org to grow your coaching skills and be part of the community.

UK Coaching’s Paul Thompson is joined by colleagues Jenny Coady and Marianne Davies in this April 6 edition of the Curious Coaches’ Club. We know as coaches we can sometimes struggle to make time for our own learning and development. For many this proved even harder during lockdown, when all our normal routines and social networks were changed dramatically. This session focused on how we, as coaches, can nurture our social learning groups and build new ones. Want to be part of the Curious Coaches' Club? Fuel your curiosity by joining our experts every Monday for an engaging and insightful online coaching discussion. Whatever your role, if you're helping people to be active and improve, we're here for you. Visit UKCoaching.org to grow your coaching skills and be part of the community.