UK Coaching Podcasts

Join UK Coaching’s Mark Bateman and Andy Bradshaw for their Curious Coaches’ Club conversation about remote coaching. In this session, Mark and Andy share best practice and explore some of the essentials of working from home, discussing how you can support the people you coach despite the restrictions on movement. They also draw on some of the positive consequences of having to work in a different way, exploring how the new tactics you implement may become staple elements of your coaching craft. 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.

A professor of athletic development, vastly experienced strength and conditioning coach, and an expert in the field of talent identification, Kevin Till talks to UK Coaching's Chris Chapman about the role coaches, of all levels, have in athlete development. Everyone has an opinion on what talent looks like, so how can sport science be used to accurately support and understand potential? Coaches need to look at athletes in a fully rounded way; their biological, social and psychological development, as well as their technical and tactical ability. Kevin explains how coaches can adjust their focus and the effect that can have. 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.

Pete Sturgess is the FA's National Lead Coach for the Foundation Phase (5-11 years) and in this Coach Developer Conversations with UK Coaching’s Senior Coach Developer Tom Hartley, he discusses the value of player-centred coaching and his approach to coach development. Pete has dedicated his coaching career to the development of foundation phase players. These young people are a 'mass' of potential, and coaches who work with these young players should be valued and appreciated for the great job they do. Especially, if their approach releases their potential and allows each player to become the best they can be. Pete also discusses why coaches of young players should support the development of the person, as well as the player. 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.  

Sport England CEO Tim Hollingsworth and UK Coaching CEO Mark Gannon have joined together for a podcast to give their thoughts on the coronavirus situation from a coaching perspective. The gentlemen praised the innovative coaching practice that has kept the nation active during unprecedented social restrictions. The wide-ranging conversation, which was released during Mental Health Awareness Week and hosted by Sport England's Head of Coaching Stuart Armstrong, examined the need for inspirational people in communities to drive increased activity; how the pandemic has brought into focus the way in which people can be supported; and the challenges that people may face as society moves forward. 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.

  What does an ‘ideal’ parents' meeting look like? Gordon MacLelland from Working With Parents in Sport joins Chris Chapman for the final time, to discuss parents' meetings. Gordon highlights that a successful parents' meeting is about more than just updating them on their child’s progress, it can lay the foundations for an enjoyable, successful season or year. It’s never an easy thing, to stand in front of a group of parents; yet it is an important part of your development as a coach, which helps you focus and grow. Gordon discusses the key aspects of a parents' meeting, and ideas for how you can get these across. 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.  

Inside Leadership's Paul Shaw joins UK Coaching Learning Experience Manager Chris Chapman to discuss how coaches should go about assessing and making changes to a new squad or organisation. From appropriate goal setting, which require stretching to reach but are always achievable, to strategies on how to approach strengths and weaknesses; a fully rounded analysis and refresh of a team can be a daunting challenge. Using his experience with the England women cricket team, Paul offers advice and key focus points for coaches who they find themselves in this situation. 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 coach developer podcast, UK Coaching Senior Coach Developer Tom Hartley speaks to Richard Cheetham MBE (Coach Developer of the Year at the UK Coaching Awards 2018) about his journey through coaching and coach development. Richard discusses what an innovative and creative approach to supporting coaches looks like. Coming into coaching from a teaching background, via rugby, Richard talks about the importance of always being open to learning new things, about not taking the people you coach for granted, and where exactly his creative approach to coach development comes from – and why it works. 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.

Gordon MacLelland (Working With Parents in Sport) discusses with UK Coaching's Chris Chapman the importance on have the right conversations at the right time. One of the most difficult parts of being a coach can be delivering difficult news – to parents and athletes – whether it's around selection, current performance or more specific issues around behaviours and attitude. Rather than be taken by surprise, coaches can lay the foundations for such conversations. How proactive are you being with your feedback? Do players and parents have an idea of how they are progressing? Are you prepared to have those conversations when they’re needed, not keep putting them off? 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.

  Former Head of Performance of England Women’s cricket team, Paul Shaw talks to Chris Chapman and shares his experience of what transitions look like and why they’re important. Transitioning into a new environment within a talent pathway is a vital part of a player’s development. How do you know if someone’s ready for that change? How do you get them ready? It’s doesn’t need to be all down to you as the coach. Creating a system of mentors and buddies can support people as they transition in, while transitioning out is made easier if you’re proactive in recognising when it’s going to happen, and understanding how it’s likely to affect them.   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

  Gordon MacLelland (Working With Parents in Sport) shares with Chris Chapman his experience of working with parents of athletes, focusing on the value of regular communication. How do you communicate with parents of your players? What information will you be wanting to get across? Are you being consistent with when you’re getting in touch? Are you sharing too much, or too frequently? What methods are you using to communicate? Have you built in time for face-to-face discussions? All these questions can help develop a strategy for you how can best communicate with parents.   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