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Who is it for?

The Performance Coach Program is tailored to emerging performance coaches in priority national sporting organisations (NSOs) who have the capacity and capability to deliver outstanding results for Australia over the next decade.

The Performance Coach Program will fund a maximum of 15 coaches each year, with successful placements determined through a rigorous application and selection process.

Program overview

The program will be delivered over two years via a series of face-to-face residential labs, immersive experiences, project work, mentoring, individual assessment and regular feedback and reflection.

A high level program overview is provided below:

Theme 1: The Coach and Leader

This theme will focus on the role of the performance coach in a complex networked system and the coach as a leader of a team of experts.  Key topics include:

• the role of the coach – system impact
• ability to leverage the whole system – drawing upon expertise in all areas of the team
• self and external analyses of the coach as a leader and use in guiding professional development
• leadership styles – contrasting effective and ineffective strategies including a self learning journey
• managing a team – individual strengths, conflict resolution and team creativity.

Theme 2: The Knowledge Seeker

This theme will focus on expanding the coaches' expertise in the areas of science and technology. Key topics include:

• training science – the basis and rationale of use, practical application and case studies in topics such as altitude, strength and conditioning, sleep and loading
• technology in sport – case studies in sport which could include GPS, biomechanical analyses, equipment, such as bikes and boats.

Theme 3: The Athlete Manager

This theme will focus on understanding athletes and in particular the concepts of talent development, individuality and competitive readiness. Key topics include:

• talent – recognition, development and protection
• gender – training and coaching of females and males
• individual versus the team – training and coaching.