This week in the Smart Coaching series, Keith Grabowski, Dr. Kuklick and Dr. Gearity discuss coaches’ professional development. They discuss the clinics, how coaches approach them and different ways to gather useful intel. They also look at what resources are available outside of clinics to coaches and what innovation can be used to help them develop.

Show Notes:

:00 National Conference

02:45 Professional development through clinics

04:15 Dr. Kuklick’s workshop experience

04:52 Look at areas of weakness 

05:45 Be aware of how the problem is framed

06:15 How to identify softs skills outside of technical and tactical skills

06:50 Keith’s self-evaluation forms

09:05 Program evaluation

10:12 Ask the players

11:00 Be an active participant in development

11:35 Consider a coach educator/developer on staff

12:25 Go to upper level leaders for resources

13:35 Soft resources

14:15 Mentorship and collaboration

15:20 Different approaches to clinics

16:58 Identify some trends

17:45 Keith’s clinic information retainment and organization

19:12 Identify networking opportunities

19:50 Keith’s staff development experience

20:40 Learning community approach

23:40 Find other ways of thinking

24:45 Get outside of the box in the culture

26:00 Reflect

26:12 Organize and plan

26:30 Think outside the box

26:55 Contact the doctors

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27:35 Dr. Gearity’s coach interaction

28:35 Be able to be uncomfortable and learn

 

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