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Coaching for Character

16.6.2023

This is the last blog entry on the C’s system and I already have a few ideas in mind for the next blog posts. Covering the C’s system with blogs took a bit longer than originally planned, but studies, work projects and plain life came in the way.

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Competence – Successful and efficient completion of tasks

24.1.2023

Aren’t we all striving towards becoming or being more competent in the things we are doing? This includes all aspects of our lives, be it work, leisure time, sport, and family and friends. In this blog series on the C’s in Coaching we are looking at how a coach can support their athletes and sport...

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Coaching through building confidence

5.8.2022

Confidence, as well as self-confidence, self-worth and self-efficacy has been the point of interest not only within the sporting environment (e.g., Vealey and Chase 2008; Feltz 2007; Woodman and Hardy 2011; Bessa et al. 2021; Trudel, Gilbert and Rodrigue 2016) but also within the industry (e.g., Kay & Shipman 2014), social psychology (e.g., Greenacre, Tung...

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Connection – Rapport

3.12.2021

What is a key characteristic, core competence or effective coaching skill that quality coaches possess? One of them certainly is the ability to make connections, to build rapport with their athletes, their coaching staff, stakeholders within the sporting environment and with the parents of the athletes they are coaching. Connection (rapport) is one of the...

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Creativity

19.9.2021

Creativity – for the coach as well as the sport participants. How to be creative as a coach and how to support the development of creativity in sport participants, athletes and players. ’Be creative!’ is a statement uttered by many coaches to their sport participants, athletes and players in sport halls, gyms, in ice rinks...

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Coaching by not only developing the sport participant but the whole person

12.6.2021

Coaching by not only developing the sport participant but the whole person. Sports coaching has for the longest time only focused on developing athletic, as well as technical and tactical skills of sport participants. It is understandable why this has been the case and why even nowadays many times when coaches gather around to talk...

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