Brook Sport Consulting

Intentional design is at the heart of all coaching programmes aimed at developing performance and life skills outcomes. On the one side developing the physical, cognitive, technical and tactical skills required in the sport and on the other the values and behaviours we would like to see them display in both sporting and other contexts in life. Life skills can be developed through sport and an insight into Emotional Intelligence can help inform coaches as to the personal and s

I met Lou Bergholz at the Beyond Sport conference held in Cape Town in December 2011. Although we talked on that occasion the opportunity for collaboration sadly never came around. Lou is founder and managing partner of Edgework Consulting a Boston based firm that provides leadership development and capacity building to organisation’s around the world. An important part of the company’s work focusing on innovative approaches to youth development including sport for developmen

Norman Brook recently presented at the Western Province Athletics Coaches Workshop held at the Sports Science Institute in Cape Town. The following blog reflects the content of his presentation on the Dynamics in Athletics Coaching in South Africa. What are the dynamics in Athletics Coaching in South Africa, the social, intellectual, or moral forces that produce activity and change?  Athletics in South Africa clearly has a wealth of good athletes, coaches and support personne

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