Sports Coaching: Essential Communication Skills

Transform Your Coaching Style: Learn Essential Communication Skills for Sports Coaching Success

Effective communication is a crucial component of successful coaching, allowing coaches to connect with their athletes and facilitate their growth. Unfortunately, many coaches do not have the opportunity to develop this essential skill.

Bond University is proud to present the Sports Coaching: Essential Communication Skills, an online microcredential designed for coaches of both youth and adult athletes/teams, from beginner to advanced levels. Through this course, coaches will reflect on their communication practices and explore recent research, best practices, and real-life scenarios to enhance their coaching abilities. Specifically, the program will focus on delivering instructions, providing feedback, and creating and utilising coaching cues.

Our learner platform offers high-quality content that can be accessed at any time, providing coaches with the flexibility to complete the course around their busy schedules. Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your coaching skills and achieve greater success with your athletes.

Meet your course instructor

Matthew Wilkie

Matthew has over 15 years of experience in high-performance coaching and coach development with various national and international sporting teams and organisations, including the Queensland Reds, the International Council of Coaching Excellence, and Rugby Australia.

Most recently, Matthew was the Head of Coach Development for the Irish Rugby Football Union. He supported the continual personal and professional development of all national and provincial professional coaches and led the design and implementation of the community coaching framework.

Now residing on the Gold Coast, Matthew is the Director of Coaching at the Southport School and continues to consult and mentor a number of professional coaches across the globe in sports that include AFL, rugby sevens, hockey, rugby, Gaelic football, netball, and soccer. 

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  • This course will benefit accredited sports coaches who are coaching youth or adult athletes / teams at participation or performance levels. 

    Coaches should have sport-specific knowledge and be willing to reflect upon their current coaching practice.

  • Upon completion of the course, you will be able to:

    • Deliver effective instructions, coaching cues and feedback to improve sports performance. 
    • Take away practical strategies to enhance your coaching skills ongoing.

    Upon successful completion, you will receive a digital Certificate of Achievement in recognition of your new competencies.

  • As a manager, senior coach or team leader, we appreciate that you value continuous professional development of all your coaches. We recognise the importance of convenient, relevant and timely learning opportunities.

    The Sports Coaching: Essential Communication Skills microcredential will benefit you and your coaches by: 

    • Empowering them with the knowledge and strategies for improving their personal coach communication skills
    • Enabling them to reflect upon their coach communication practices whilst exploring recent research, best practice examples and real-life scenarios

This course will benefit accredited sports coaches who are coaching youth or adult athletes / teams at participation or performance levels. 

Coaches should have sport-specific knowledge and be willing to reflect upon their current coaching practice.

Learn more about this microcredential and hear from course instructor, Matthew Wilkie

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