Want to know how to be a top sports coach? Need advice on how to identify talent and get the best performance from an athlete or team? Want advice on how to improve you coaching or help mentor other coaches?
Written by one of the world's top coaches and coach mentors, Frank W. Dick OBE, this book is the essential practical handbook for anyone coaching or hoping to coach sports teams and athletes. It provides a breakdown of all types of coaching positions there are, from practitioners to performance directors to teachers, including their roles, responsibilities and challenges as coaches.
Suitable for coaches at any stage in their career, the book covers the key aspects of sports coaching, including: coaching principles, skills and styles, strategy, and development and education, and coaching standards.
Based on the wealth of coaching experience Frank Dick has accrued over 25 years at the highest levels of international sport, each chapter ends with a section on practical coaching tips to make you the best coach you can be in whatever sport you coach.
Containing everything you need to know about coaching, this book is the Bible of Coaching!
