Brook Sport Consulting

Top sports coaches are innovative, finding new approaches to the train and prepare their teams and athletes, and in the process helping them to achieve a competitive advantage.  Good coaches possess practical coaching skills, knowledge and understanding of their sport, and demonstrate appropriate attitude, values and conduct.  Top coaches move to higher levels by reflecting on their coaching practice, solving problems and creating new and innovative approaches to coaching.  T

The education and training programmes adopted by most sports federations to develop their coaching workforce have in recent years tended towards a competence based training approach. Competence is often defined as a combination of awareness, skills, knowledge and attitude that enables an individual to coach to the agreed standards required to coach in a specified context. Competence Capability Matrix Competent coaches have demonstrated the ability to operate effectively in a