A useful resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well practitioners and for anyone who is intrigued to find out about social psychological topics in sport ⬇️

Here are some of the things that will make you a great coach:

- Be a good person, “a nice guy”
- Be yourself
- Be a team, “team together”
- Have a common ground
- Share a vision
- Work hard
- Chase improvement
- Maintain self-belief

Jurgen Klopp: a legend

…and it is great to see our research conducted here at Loughborough University and across the world, featuring in your book Brett Bartholomew

Relationships, Communication and Leadership are fundamental concepts within sport coaching

It is like yin and yang: coaches need to be technically and relationally competent

A longitudinal study on coach-athlete relationship with my Brazilian colleagues

It was found that the CAR quality is an important determinant for life skills development in youth handball players over a sport season ⬇️

International Handball Federation

ResearchGate: researchgate.net/publication/37…

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Great docu👏 Didn’t know Giannis Antetokounmpo story but his values help us understand why he offers a much needed cultural reality check for sport. Winning is not the only thing that matters. Sport can offer so much more if those who participate do so with #integrity |🪜to success 🔥

Women & Equalities Committee published report on 'Health Barriers for Girls and Women in Sport'

A section on Coaching (pp. 26-30) captures the degree to which coaches adequately support sportswomen & includes coaching environments and coach behaviours

publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5804/cmse…

This makes me smile every time ...
ResearchGate

A busy week that included the BUCS (British Universities & Colleges Sport) Championships Loughborough University. This year I had the pleasure to watch my daughter participating & representing University of Nottingham Sport in hockey as a fresher. Congratulations to the team & Phillippa Jowett 🤩 😍

What has just happened?!What an amazing achievement & performance from Jasmin Paris . She is truly a trail blazer; the first woman in history to complete the Barkley Marathons (in 59:58:21)…endurance, resilience, determination 🤩 testing human capabilities #smalleuropeanwoman

Great coach-athlete partnerships have a long-term impact on people’s lives

If you are interested in this topic: 'Women in Coaching...' You can find some of our thoughts here:⬇️

ResearchGate: researchgate.net/publication/36…

OR here ⬇️
doi.org/10.53841/bpsse… BPS Sport & Exercise Psychology (DSEP)

Katelynn Slade Jyoti Gosai

We recently reflected on: the more coaches know themselves, the more they can assess their impact on the athletes’ success

Coaches send strong messages to their athletes

If coaches look at athletes as champions, they will probably succeed because their support goes beyond words

What a great coach! One of my favorite coaches.

A role model of a coach …and she’s got a message for us all

youtube.com/watch?v=pFkXsk… ⬇️

Perpetual crises and unsolved problems …

Great coaches and effective coaching can be one solution - the change that sports needs regardless of level of performance and type of sport

Sport can no longer rely solely on volunteer coaches & on coaches who freely offer their time

As my students embark on tasks

ChatGPT could indeed increase our “productivity,” not by providing us with better answers, but by confronting us with unoriginal…responses, so that we can move into the realm of new alternatives that ChatGPT cannot predict

wired.com/story/chatgpt-…

A great paper by Fischer & colleagues that focuses on uncovering the potential confusion between leader behaviours & follower evaluations in the study of leadership

Important conceptual questions & empirical evidence for scholars who study leadership …in sport too

Chen Zhao

A brand new initiative bringing leading universities and thought leaders together to solve complex problems in sport

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Just to be clear the coach-athlete relationship must not be confused with other types of relationships incl. sexual relationships between people

The coach - athlete relationship has a specific purpose to enhance sport performance (skill development) and wellbeing (enjoyment)