Coaching Better Every Season By Wade Gilbert

Coaching Better Every Season presents the best coaching methods and practices for each season on the sport calendar – pre-season, in-season, post-season, and off-season - and offers specific actions, tools, and guidelines for coaches to create a cycle of continuous improvement for themselves, their athletes, and their teams.

Maximise the development of your athletes and team throughout the year, and just maybe win a post-season title in the process.

Coaching Better Every Season: A Year-Round System for Athlete Development and Program Success presents a blueprint for such success, detailing proven coaching methods and practices in pre-season, in-season, post-season, and off-season.

The Coach Doc, Dr. Wade Gilbert, shares his research-supported doses of advice that have helped coaches around the globe troubleshoot their ailing programs into title contenders.

His field-tested yet innovative prescriptions and protocols for a more professional approach to coaching are sure to produce positive results both in competitive outcomes and in the enjoyment of the experience for athletes and coaches.

Coaching Better Every Season applies to all sports and guides coaches through the critical components of continual improvement while progressing from one season to the next in the annual coaching cycle.

It also presents many practical exercises and evaluation tools that coaches can apply to athletes and teams at all levels of competition. This text is sure to make every year of coaching a more rewarding, if not a trophy-winning, experience.


Contents

Foreword
Introduction

Part I: Pre-season: Envision
Chapter 1. Define Purpose and Core Values
Chapter 2. Connect Values to a Philosophy
Chapter 3. Set Target Outcomes
Chapter 4. Build Trust and Cohesion

Part II: In-Season: Enact
Chapter 5. Develop Athletic Talent and Skill
Chapter 6. Optimise Athletes’ Learning
Chapter 7. Design Quality Practices
Chapter 8. Ensure Pre-competition Readiness
Chapter 9. Coach Effectively on Game Day

Part III: End of Season: Evaluate
Chapter 10. Design and Implement a Program Evaluation System
Chapter 11. Recognise and Build on Strengths

Part IV: Off-Season: Enhance
Chapter 12. Close Performance Gaps
Chapter 13. Collaborate and Learn
Chapter 14. Recharge and Ignite

Closing Repeating Success

Released 2017
424 pages


About The Author

Wade Gilbert, PhD, is an award-winning professor in the department of kinesiology at California State University at Fresno.

Dr. Gilbert holds degrees in physical education, human kinetics, and education and has taught and studied coaching at the University of Ottawa (Canada), UCLA, and Fresno State. He has more than 20 years of experience in conducting applied research with coaches around the world spanning all competitive levels, from youth leagues to the FIFA World Cup and the Olympic Games.

He is widely published and is frequently invited to speak at national and international events. Gilbert is a coach education advisor to USA Football and a regular contributor to coaching seminars for Olympic and national team coaches in the United States and Canada.

In addition, Gilbert is editor in chief of the International Sport Coaching Journal, published by Human Kinetics in conjunction with SHAPE America and the International Council for Coaching Excellence (ICCE). As Human Kinetics’ coach education advisor, “The Coach Doc” writes articles and conducts webinars on a variety of coaching issues.