La Salle International Graduate School IGS

Sports coaching program

Sports coaching program

Sports Coaching was born as a response to an increasingly pressing need to balance technological advances and competitiveness in the sports world and the mental adaptation of athletes to this new reality.

More frequently, comments on the importance of concentration, emotions, anxieties, mental control and many other concepts related more to their personal attitude than to their personal attitudes appear in different forums, debates and articles. technical skills.

This program has been designed to:

• Provide the knowledge and tools necessary to carry out the comprehensive process of Sports Coaching.

• Offer a space for reflection that allows sharing experiences and consolidating knowledge about people management in sporting environments.

• Propose practices with real cases and situations in sports entities and/or professional athletes.
The participants, at the end of the program, will be able to help the athlete to achieve maximum performance through:

• Recognize situations that may facilitate or hinder your performance.

• Identify strengths and areas for improvement to define professional development objectives.

• Facilitate spaces for self-reflection that allow constant improvement and the achievement of the proposed objectives.

• Manage extreme situations of success or failure.

• Manage relationships with your personal and professional environment.

Background

It is essential to know the origins of coaching, the state of the art and the different definitions in order to establish what is and what is not coaching, its scope and main applications. Participants will be able to clearly differentiate the concept of sports coaching from other techniques aimed at improving individual and group performance.

The process

Recognizing the stages of the integral coaching process is key to understanding which are the techniques or tools that I must use to carry out the process successfully. A logical order in the interventions allows us to plan each of the sessions with greater precision and obtain the maximum productivity in each of them. Making the objectives clear from the beginning will help us to develop an action plan with measurement indicators that facilitate the monitoring and control of the commitments acquired.

main concepts

For each stage of the process, it is necessary to apply different concepts that will allow us to broaden our field of action and, ultimately, have a greater number of alternatives to successfully accompany our interventions as a coach.

In some cases these concepts are known, to a greater or lesser extent, by the participants, the difference will be in how and when to apply them correctly depending on the needs.