Growing Coaches Programme Guide - Sport New Zealand

GROWING COACHES PROGRAMME GUIDE
DEVELOPING COACH KNOWLEDGE
NEW ZEALAND COACH DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK
Growing Coaches links directly to the New
Zealand Coach Development Framework.
The Framework provides vision, establishes
consistent national parameters for coaching
and aligns coach development in New Zealand.
It’s all about developing coaches!
VISION
The Sport New Zealand Coach Development
Framework vision is “Excellence in coaching
practice”.
Through: A national coach development system
that empowers coaches to provide a highquality
coaching service to all athletes.
PHILOSOPHY
Coach development is based on continuous
improvement through the increasingly effective
integration of coaching skills, knowledge and
understandings in coaching practice.
PRINCIPLES
The principles for coach development are:
WHAT WILL WE SEE FROM SUCH A COACH
APPROACH?
Independent, confident athletes able to ‘coach’
themselves.
. Learners learn, and coaches help the
process.
. The focus is on the ‘how’, not the ‘what’, in
coaching.
. Coaching is delivered through quality
conversations using effective questions with
no pre-determined answers.
. Above all else we have moved from ‘coaching
sport’ to ‘coaching people’.
. Each individual takes ownership of his/her
own performance through enhanced selfawareness.
Check out the Sport New Zealand NZ
Coach Approach DVD on the Sport
NZ website at www.sportnz.org.nz
to find out more about the NZ Coach
Approach style of coaching.
. Ownership
. Simplicity
. Holistic
. Outcome focused
. Continuous improvement
. Partnership.
The New Zealand Coach Development
Framework desires coach development
to be: community based, athlete-centred,
applicable and practical, integrated,
flexible, inclusive and appropriate to New
Zealand.
NZ COACH APPROACH
The New Zealand Coach approach “is
a philosophy to unleash the potential
of New Zealand athletes by a style of
coaching that promotes learning through
ownership, awareness and responsibility”.
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