Community Junior Sport Coaching final report - 2009

Coaches’ Reflections on the Training Sessions
This section of the report focuses on what the coaches thought about their coaching session, what
they liked and disliked about it and how they thought it could be improved. The section also covers
what the coaches perceived to be happening in their sessions in terms of time allocated to skills,
games and various levels of physical activity etc.
How did you think today’s session went
Directly after the observed training session, coaches were asked to reflect on the session and give an
overall rating on how they thought their training session went. The results of the self reflection can
be seen in Figure 4-4.
60%
Coaches' Self Reflection on Their Session
50%
40%
48%
43%
30%
20%
10%
0%
9%
Good Average Bad
Coaches' Self Reflection
Figure 4-4 How the coaches rated their training session immediately afterwards
The graph highlights that 48% of the coaches thought that their training session was good and only
9% thought that it was bad. Further investigation of this revealed that the coaches liked it when the
players tried hard and worked well in the session and when the players listened. In contrast to this
the coaches reported that they disliked it when the players did not turn up to training or when the
players were not concentrating. From the list of reasons given it can be summarised that coach
satisfaction is predominantly linked to player centred issues (80% - boys tried hard, listened, were
enthusiastic, enjoyed themselves and were improving).
A list of the major likes and dislikes that the coaches reported about their training sessions can be
seen in Table 4-10.
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