Coach assessment tool
Härkönen, Niko; Klicznik, Roman (2014)
Härkönen, Niko
Klicznik, Roman
Haaga-Helia ammattikorkeakoulu
2014
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2015060312064
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2015060312064
Tiivistelmä
The Coach Assessment Tool was created to assist coaches of all sports for their own
development. The starting point to develop the tool is the fact that coaching clinics solely
focus on the technical and tactial skills of the sport. The education for coaches is lacking to
teach the importance of the coach´s behavior towards their athletes. The question is how to
teach properly the task in hand to increase the athlete´s performance considering the coach´s
behavior. Nevertheless, coach´s knowledge about the proper behavior often is diametral to
the athletes perception of it.
Therefore, the tool was created to improve the self-awareness for coaches of their own coaching
behavior and the impact this behavior has on their athletes. Furthermore it helps to identify
coaching behavior strengths and areas to improve, as well as to help the coach improve his
behavior through practical development methods. To evaluate the coach´s behavior, the tool
insists of two main instruments for evaluation. The first instrument is the self-evaluation with
questionnaires. The second part is the video analysing tool. Furthermore the tool includes a
manual for coaches to analyse their strength and to improve their weaknesses based on the
analysis results.
The first step was to identify the factors of good coaching. There is no common scientific
understanding for those factors. There had not been a concept of categories and subcategories
that describes good coaching so far. The tool does not just enable the tools to
identify the coach´s own behavior but also provides guidlines for the main categories of good
coaching.
The Coach Assessment Tool is designed for easy evaluation and analysis. It seems to be very
useful for self-development for coach´s. Nevertheless, the tool has not been completely
finalized yet, but the theoretical framework and steps to realize the Coach Assessment Tool
for regular use is set.
development. The starting point to develop the tool is the fact that coaching clinics solely
focus on the technical and tactial skills of the sport. The education for coaches is lacking to
teach the importance of the coach´s behavior towards their athletes. The question is how to
teach properly the task in hand to increase the athlete´s performance considering the coach´s
behavior. Nevertheless, coach´s knowledge about the proper behavior often is diametral to
the athletes perception of it.
Therefore, the tool was created to improve the self-awareness for coaches of their own coaching
behavior and the impact this behavior has on their athletes. Furthermore it helps to identify
coaching behavior strengths and areas to improve, as well as to help the coach improve his
behavior through practical development methods. To evaluate the coach´s behavior, the tool
insists of two main instruments for evaluation. The first instrument is the self-evaluation with
questionnaires. The second part is the video analysing tool. Furthermore the tool includes a
manual for coaches to analyse their strength and to improve their weaknesses based on the
analysis results.
The first step was to identify the factors of good coaching. There is no common scientific
understanding for those factors. There had not been a concept of categories and subcategories
that describes good coaching so far. The tool does not just enable the tools to
identify the coach´s own behavior but also provides guidlines for the main categories of good
coaching.
The Coach Assessment Tool is designed for easy evaluation and analysis. It seems to be very
useful for self-development for coach´s. Nevertheless, the tool has not been completely
finalized yet, but the theoretical framework and steps to realize the Coach Assessment Tool
for regular use is set.