Quality Coaching Research Articles

Key Factors Influencing Quality Coaching Relationships: The Role of EI Competencies

Executive coaching continues to explode in popularity as a means for individually-customized executive development. However, academic research on executive coaching has not expanded at the same rate. This is the first dyadic, qualitative study with external professional coaches and executive-level (Director, Vice President, and CxO-level) clients to empirically demonstrate EI competencies and their influence on quality coaching relationships within a business context. In addition, this is the first study to establish a shared validation of what coaches and clients experience as relevant and important competencies in their interactions. Our qualitative study of 32 coaching dyads finds that emotional intelligence competencies are key factors influencing quality coaching relationships. The top four EI behaviors displayed by outstanding coaches include the competencies of empathy, coach and mentor, inspirational leadership and adaptability. Study results indicate that outstanding coaches leverage their EI competencies to positively influence quality coaching relationships. By exploring how the coach’s EI behaviors influence quality dyadic coaching relationships, this empirical study aims to contribute to research and practice in the interdisciplinary fields of psychology, management, and executive coaching.

Become the best coach you can be: the role of coach training and coaching experience in workplace coaching quality and quality control

This paper explores whether coach training or coaching experience leads to better coaching quality and quality control. In two large studies, both coaches (N1 = 2267) and personnel managers who book coaches for their company (N2 = 754) answered questions about coaching quality and quality control. The results show that more coach training leads to not only a better self-perceived coaching quality (Study 1) but also a better other-perceived coaching-quality (Study 2); moreover, more coach training positively affects quality control. It is remarkable that coaching experience showed no significant relation regarding other-perceived coaching quality and quality control. Study 2 further revealed that references lead to more recommendations but not to a better coaching quality or quality control. Thus, coach training is an essential factor when selecting organizational coaches. Further research is needed to understand the impact of different approaches to coach trainings on coaching outcomes.

“The principles are good, but they need to be integrated in the right way”: Experimenting with creativity in elite youth soccer

The promotion of creativity in team ball sports has captured the interest of many researchers and practitioners, but no studies have explored how coaches perceive and apply creativity-nurturing activities. The purpose of this study was to examine the personal and cultural conditions that enable or obstruct the design and application of creativity exercises (CE) to facilitate elite youth soccer players’ exploration of novel action potentials during soccer training. This examination was conducted in an action research (AR) process where a researcher and a soccer coach applied a selection of creativity concepts as tools to experiment with when designing new CEs. The data comprised audio recordings of design meetings and video observations of practice experiments during AR cycles. Further, the researcher used freewriting to reflect on the process and the coach participated in a semi-structured interview. Thematic analysis showed that facilitation of creativity was envisioned to foster curios, sovereign, de-robotized, playful, and process-oriented players with unique trademarks. However, many ideas were rejected due to beliefs about quality coaching, demands for transferable situations and solutions, and the coach’s conception of creativity. While some ideas were incompatible with established practice, others were rejected since they were perceived to involve unrealistic situations and match-irrelevant solutions. Moreover, the soccer-specific curriculum and match preparation in a tight tournament program left little time to diverge, and the pressure to perform intensified the demand for quality coaching when facing bad results. Avenues for future research are outlined by discussing conceptual, pedagogical, cultural, and political tensions in the results. Lay summary: This study identifies several potentials for conducting creativity exercises during which the players solve novel challenges and explore solutions they do not usually try during training. However, result orientation and traditional views of quality coaching may limit what is seen as appropriate and therefore limit the exploitations of these potentials. Implications for practice Portrays several creativity exercises and outlines principles for designing new ones. Provides resources to interrogate own and others’ beliefs about creativity and its development. Offers key arguments and considerations for coaches who wish to promote creativity.

Competencies and training of health professionals engaged in health coaching: A systematic review.

A systematic review was undertaken in order to evaluate the competencies of primary healthcare professionals who are engaged with health coaching patients with chronic health conditions. The databases CINHAL, EMBASE, PubMed, PsychINFO and SCOPUS were searched to identify peer reviewed papers referring to competencies of health professionals engaged in health coaching. Nine key competencies that health professionals met and which resulted in successful patient outcomes from health coaching were identified. Comparisons of the core health coaching competencies to the competencies for coaches established by the International Coaching Federation and European Mentoring and Coaching Council showed considerable overlap. However, the comparison also reiterated the need for competencies specific to health coaches to be made explicit. Health coaching has been shown to improve the health outcomes in patients with chronic health conditions. As such, there is a need to build an evidenced-based competency framework specific to health coaches. At present, the lack of a competency framework on which to base health coach training could significantly impact the outcomes of patients receiving health coaching. Practical implications include improving regulation and quality of health coaching, and more importantly, the health outcomes of patients receiving the service.

School Improvement Specialist Coaches Plus (SISC+) as a Catalyst for Enhancing Teachers Pedagogy Aspect in Malaysia

The School Improvement Specialist Coaches Plus (SISC+) programmed in Malaysia has been in operation since 2012 and is a part of the professional education team in all districts in Malaysia that helps teachers through their coaches. According to the District Transformation Programmed 3.0 (DTP 3.0), the role of SISC+ is underpinned by knowledge and skills in curriculum, pedagogy and assessment aspects. The aim of this study was therefore to identify the level of competence of SISC+ in the field of pedagogy. This study employed a descriptive design. The data has been collected via a series of questionnaires distributed nationally to 118 ICs and analyzed with version 23 of SPSS. The study used descriptive statistics with frequency, mean score, standard deviation and percentage. The results have demonstrated that Pedagogical Knowledge SISC+ competency has a mean score of 4.63, sd = 0.469, at a high level. The results of this study show that SISC+ is competent and knowledgeable on the pedagogical aspects of the subject. The results of this study give insight on the capabilities of SISC+ in teaching coaches in schools and in the practice of teaching and teaching of quality (T&L). Furthermore, teachers interacted and defined the challenges in the school and social environment. It is therefore recognized that the programmed SISC+ needs to be properly understood and recognized by schools and educational institutions in order to achieve its objective of supporting teachers. Physical spaces and collaboration possibilities can improve the achievements of the coaches. The originality and value of the research is the first such research in Malaysia to explore the skills and experiences of coaches who are actively involved in the teacher instructional coaching programmed. The authority must therefore provide support and cooperation so as to ensure that SISC+ remains capable of providing teachers with good quality coaching.

Review of Development of Badminton Sports Achievement at PB Club. Starka Regency of Kerinci, Jambi Province

The problem in this study is the decline in badminton sports achievement in the PB Starka Club in Kerinci Regency, Jambi Province. The purpose of this study was to find out how to foster badminton sporting achievements in the PB Club Starka district Kerinci Jambi Province. This type of research is a descriptive study. The sampling technique using total sampling technique, the number of samples in this study were 25 athletes. The instrument in this study was to use a research questionnaire. The data analysis technique in this study was to use the t test. The results of this study are: 1) Fostering achievement on coach quality indicators on Good classification, 2) Physical quality on Good classification, 3) Technical quality on Excellent classification, 4) Tactic quality on Good classification, 5) Mental quality on Very Good classification , 6) quality of trainers in classification Good, 7) Organization in classification Very good 8) Facilities and infrastructure in classification Very good, 9) Training program in classification Very good, 10) Parental support for classification "Very good.

The Implementation Of Football Sports Extracurricular Activities In Junior High School 25 Padang

The purpose of the study is to know the implementation of extracurricular sports football activities in junior high Country 25 fields, include the variable quality of coaches, infrastructure, and motivated athletes. The type of this research is descriptive. The entire research population athletes/students who follow football-playing ie 17 people. With a drawing of samples is done with the Total sampling, where all athletes/students extracurricular activities that follow the sport of football. Research data collection instrument using the question form by using the Guttman scale. Data were analyzed with descriptive statistics. Using the formula P = f / n x 100. Data collection of the entire variable, namely the quality of coaches, infrastructure, the motivation of athletes does with question form deployment techniques. Data analysis is a descriptive analysis and conducting interviews and observation. Data analysis of the results of the implementation of extracurricular sports football activities in junior high Country Meadow is at 25 classifications.

Comprehensive Quality in Health Services by Using Six Sigma

The study aimed to know the overall quality of the concept and its importance in providing high-quality health services and the availability of the key factors in the application and services and to take administrative factors, technical and human and financial, which may contribute to the raise if directed properly and have an adult in improving the quality of health services impact. Based on the nature of the study and the objectives it seeks, the analytical descriptive approach was used. It was based on the study of the phenomenon as it exists in reality and it is treated as a precise description and expressed in qualitative and quantitative terms. To analyze the analytical aspects of the research subject and then collect the initial data through the questionnaire as a main tool for research, designed specifically for this purpose, and distributed to government hospitals in Khartoum State, and included the study community department managers and patients in government hospitals in Khartoum state. A random sample was collected (300) department managers and patients from the Khartoum government hospitals. Each individual has the opportunity to be a member of the study sample during the year 2016. The study concluded with a number of results, the most important of which is that the hospital management has the material potential (furniture, equipment, ...) to use the Six Sigma curriculum with an intermediate degree. The hospital management is ready to use the Six Sigma curriculum to a high degree. Six Sigma In the middle level, the hospital management is keen to train the heads of departments to form teams for the process of continuous improvement to a high degree, the hospital administration is continuously improving the purpose of reducing the deviations and errors that occur, the hospital management is ready to provide an information system Its data continuously At, there is the management of the hospital readiness to provide direct contact with an intermediate degree of quality coaches tuning software system. The study presented a number of recommendations, the most important of which is linking the promotion system in the public hospitals in Khartoum state with the quality control program, paying attention to the overall quality and stressing the possibility of using it in hospitals in Khartoum State because of its scientific and practical importance and improving the quality of the services and the operations provided.

Coaches’ implementation strategies in providing social support to Singaporean university athletes: A case study

Coaches are effective providers of social support to their athletes. Although sport-specific measures of social support have been developed to better understand athletes’ perceptions of available support, limited amount of research has addressed how sport coaches implement specific social support strategies. The purpose of this study was to examine university coaches’ implementation strategies in providing various forms of social support to their athletes. A total of eight sport coaches from team and individual sports (four from each sport) were purposefully selected for this study. Coaches were individually interviewed. The interview transcripts were analysed using a thematic analysis. The results revealed that coaches from different sports shared similar strategies across emotional, esteem, informational and tangible dimensions, but with some distinguishable differences in the way these strategies were implemented. In documenting the lived experiences of sport coaches, key strategies valued highly among these coaches were highlighted, providing important implications for coaches to know how to incorporate these strategies into their coaching practice to better support athletes’ well-being and improve the quality of coaching. The findings also provide an implementation framework of social support that emphasizes key strategies for coaches to focus on in their coaching approaches.

PENGENALAN ALAT UKUR DIGITAL BAGI SEKOLAH SEPAK BOLA DI KOTA JAYAPURA

Science and technology play an important role in improving athletes performance, particularly soccer atheltes. However, limitations of science and technology implementation were still the main issues for soccer schools in Jayapura. In an attempt to overcome these issues, community service activities have been carried out, in the form of ”The Introduction of Digital Devices for Soccer Schools in Jayapura City”. The purspose of the activities was to improve the quality of soccer coaching. The type of the activities carried out were workshop and training of trainers (ToT). The activities was held on Saturday 5 November 2016 at the Emsyk Arena, Waena, Jayapura. The activities received strong support from both Batik Soocer School and Emsyk Soccer School. Moreover, both soccer schools had planned the procurement of Polar H7 digital devices in their training. The products outcome were practical manuals of the Polar H7 digital heart rate monitor. Keywords: soccer school, digital device, heart rate monitor

Peer Benchmarking and Norm-Based Scoring to Improve Telephonic Health Coaching Quality

Studies evaluating telephonic coaching to improve population health have focused on outcomes, but measurement of consistency of coaching quality is also needed. The aim of this study was to describe how one multistate health plan developed, scored, and implemented a Coach Case Quality Assessment (CCQA) for quality improvement. The nine-item CCQA is a checklist of elements selected by quality improvement teams for peer benchmarking to improve telephonic coaching. The health plan fielded the CCQA to 470 clinical coaches in 2016. Quality reviewers rated coaches' call quality on each item (1 = learning; 2 = progressing; 3 = succeeding) and planned training around composite scores in relation to team norms. A total of 470 coaches completed CCQAs with a norm-based mean score of 50.0 (standard deviation [SD] ± 10.0); 54.0% of coaches had scores within ±1 SD of the mean ("norm"), with 20.9% of coaches scoring below that range, and 25.1% scoring above it. Ninety-six percent (451/470) of coaches completed a nine-month follow-up. The mean norm-based score improved to 56.2 (SD ± 9.3), with 8.2% performing below, 42.4% at, and 49.4% above the peer norm. Scores represent significant mean and proportional changes over time, reflecting improvement on the part of whole teams. This study demonstrates norm-based scoring as an effective strategy for measuring and improving coaching quality in a telephonic behavioral change program. Health plans can implement case quality review with norm-based scoring and peer benchmarking to aid coaches in continuous quality improvement.

Coaching Quality and Subordinate Work Attitudes in the Multiple Supervisor Auditing Context: Does One ‘Bad Apple’ Spoil the Barrel?

Audit subordinates typically work with multiple supervisors who are likely to vary in their level of coaching quality (CQ). While prior research suggests a low CQ supervisor could negatively affect a subordinate’s work attitudes, theory indicates that the presence of other positive coaching experiences may buffer against the negative influence of a low CQ supervisor. We investigate by asking participants to provide information on their coaching experiences with three supervisors. We then examine how perceptions of supervisors’ CQ interact to affect subordinates’ work attitudes. We find that the effect of a perceived low CQ supervisor on organizational commitment and turnover intention is mitigated when the CQ of another supervisor is high or when a relatively high CQ supervisor is also a mentor. Investigating factors that inhibit CQ, we find that supervisors’ lack of capability explains variation in lower CQ supervisors, whereas lack of presence explains variation for higher CQ supervisors.

Guidance on defining the scope and development of text-based coaching protocols for digital mental health interventions.

A body of literature suggests that the provision of human support improves both adherence to and clinical outcomes for digital mental health interventions. While multiple models of providing human support, or coaching, to support digital mental health interventions have been introduced, specific guidance on how to develop coaching protocols has been lacking. In this Education Piece, we provide guidance on developing coaching protocols for text-based communication in digital mental health interventions. Researchers and practitioners who are tasked with developing coaching protocols are prompted to consider the scope of coaching for the intervention, the selection and training of coaches, specific coaching techniques, how to structure communication with clients and how to monitor adherence to guidelines, and quality of coaching. Our goal is to advance thinking about the provision of human support in digital mental health interventions to inform stronger, more engaging, and effective intervention designs.

Non-formal education, personhood and the corrosive power of neoliberalism

ABSTRACTThe aim of this paper is to explore the extent to which non-formal education is being corroded by neoliberal values. Given non-formal education is frequently used to develop young people’s notions of citizenship, and that non-formal education providers are increasingly forced to operate within the free-market paradigm, it is significant to consider what forms of personhood are being championed. Qualitative data were gathered through semi-structured interviews and observations with coaches and young people from a youth sports charity in the UK. Focusing on a core aspect of non-formal education – caring relationships (as understood by Nel Noddings and Carl Rogers) – the findings suggest that the quality of coaches’ care for young people was conditioned by the extent to which adolescents re-shaped their personhood to align with neoliberal values of individual responsibility and discipline. Thus, the meanings of ‘care’ and ‘good citizenship’ were corroded by a neoliberal rationality.

Moderating effect of differences in coaches’ cultural backgrounds in the relationship between coaches’ leadership style and athletes’ satisfactions

This study examined the moderating effect of local and foreign coaches in the relationship between coaches leadership styles and athletes satisfaction in a case of high performance athletes in Malaysia (N = 350) under the organization of Majlis Sukan Negara. Five domains of leadership style showed positive correlation with athletes’ satisfaction (p .05). In comparing age groups, there is a significant different in training and instruction leadership style and athletes; satisfaction (p < .05). Age group of 24 – 26 years old perceived training and instruction and athletes’ satisfaction greater among all age groups. The lowest athletes’ satisfaction was group 18-20 years old. On coaches’ nationality, training and instruction and athletes’ satisfaction also show significant different (p < .05).Foreign coaches exhibit greater training and instruction style than the locals. On the other hand, the athletes satisfied greater to the local coaches’ compare to the foreign coaches. Significant correlations were observed between all leadership styles domains and athletes’ satisfaction (p < .05) except for autocratic in both local and foreign coaches. This study is expected to extend the body of knowledge of leadership in sport where the cultural differences has never been investigated as the moderating effect in the relationship between coaches’ leadership styles and athletes’ satisfaction and to improve the quality of coaching by suggesting appropriate strategies to be designed in order to control the effects of cultural differences. Keywords: Leadership style, athletes’ satisfaction, foreign and local coaches

The voice quality of sports coaches

The aim of this research paper was to examine the voice quality of sports coaches using the objective (acoustic) method. A total of 28 sports coaches (mean age 28.58, SD=5.08), from the City of Zagreb participated in this research. Recordings of the phonation of the vowel /a/ before and after one training session were obtained and analyzed using the PRAAT Program. Mean, minimal and maximal values of fundamental frequency, shimmer, jitter and harmonics-to-noise ratio were observed. The statistical analyses showed no statistically significant difference in acoustic voice quality of male and female coaches before and after the training session, or between male and female coaches. However, intra-individual differences among participants were observed, which may be significant in terms of their potential to affect the quality of their voices in the future.

The Education of Sport Coaches: What Should They Learn and When Should They Learn It?

Around the world, there is a growing movement to improve sport coaching education. In recent years, the International Council for Coaching Excellence (ICCE) has begun to address questions related to the education, training and development of sport coaches through the publication of the International Sport Coaching Framework (ISCF) and the Sport Coaching Bachelor Degree Standards (SCBDS). In the United States, because sport coaches can undertake a wide variety of coaching-related educational opportunities, the United States Olympic Committee has taken steps to address the disparity in training through the publishing of the Quality Coaching Framework (QCF). All of these documents provide valuable information about the best principles for educating and training sport coaches. While principles, standards and theories provide valuable overarching information about how to organize education, specific information about what topics should actually be taught in education programs is still lacking. In this manuscript, utilizing principles of participation versus performance sport and professional knowledge, intra- and interpersonal skills, information about what and when to teach important sport coaching topics is proposed.

Coaching Quality in Pre-kindergarten Classrooms: Perspectives from a Statewide Study

Forty-nine coaches, 947 teachers, and 189 administrators in a state-wide prekindergarten program responded to survey questions about coaching dosage and activities. The survey responses were aligned with the Coaching Quality Framework, an organization of characteristics of quality coaching proposed by the authors, and analyzed to identify similarities and differences in stakeholders’ perspectives of coaching. The vast majority of coaches, teachers, and administrators surveyed agreed that coaching was an effective professional development strategy for supporting teachers’ use of evidence-based practices. Coaches and teachers responded similarly to questions of dosage and many of the coaching quality indicators. Coaches and teachers disagreed on some aspects of the coaching activities, particularly planning for coaching, that may affect the perceptions and effectiveness of coaching. Qualitative analyses of coach and teacher responses reveal programmatic planning components that support or impede coaching. These results have implications for how coaches, teachers, and administrators prepare for large-scale coaching.

On understanding the nature of interpersonal conflict between coaches and athletes

ABSTRACTConflict is a part of coach-athlete relationships and should be carefully considered as it can have effects on the quality of coaching and the level of performance. Despite its practical relevance, there is a dearth of research around coach-athlete conflict. Therefore, the current study aimed to explore the characteristics and topics of conflict, as well as coaches and athletes’ emotional, cognitive and behavioural experiences during conflict. A total of 22 independent coaches and athletes participated in semi-structured interviews evolving around the nature of interpersonal conflict. After all interviews were transcribed, a deductive-inductive content analysis was conducted. This was guided by the interview schedule as well as the by the conceptual framework of conflict in sport relationships (Wachsmuth, Jowett, & Harwood, 2017). Data were divided into five main categories: Conflict characteristics and conflict topics, as well as conflict cognitions, emotions, and behaviours. Findings highlighted the variety of ways in which participants understood and interpreted interpersonal conflict and how their impressions of conflict influenced its evolving process. Considering the participants’ cognitive, emotional and behavioural expressions of conflict, it became apparent that conflict can be described through uncertain, escalating and problem-orientated responses. Practical applications concerning (mal-) adaptive responses to conflict are discussed. (199/200)

Sleep at the helm: A case study of how a head coach sleeps compared to his team

In recent years, research examining the sleep of elite athletes has increased. This is predominantly due to the importance sleep has on an athlete’s psychological and physiological well-being. Despite the growing importance of sleep in athletes, the amount and quality of sleep coaches obtain has been neglected. The aim of this study was to examine the sleep of a head coach and compare it to his team. The sleep of 16 members of the Australian U/20 men’s football team (age 18.8 ± 0.9 years) and the head coach (age 55 years) was monitored using wrist activity monitors and self-report sleep diaries. Sleep was examined for 15 nights in preparation for the 2011 U/20 FIFA World Cup. The head coach went to bed earlier (23:30 h ± 65 min vs. 23:36 h ± 30 min), spent less time in bed (8.4 ± 1.3 h vs. 8.6 ± 1.0 h), obtained less sleep per night (6.4 ± 1.5 h vs. 6.6 ± 0.8 h), and woke up earlier (07:54 h ± 46 min vs. 08:12 h ± 52 min) than his team. In general, the head coach obtained less sleep than his team and slept considerably poorer the night before important games. Future investigations need to examine the extent to which sleep impairs psychological state, decision-making and overall coaching performance.