Coaching Styles

 Style A: Command: Coaching by command is a teaching style that is purely run by the coach. This teaching style is authoritative and coaches the places what to do, how to do and what to think in certain scenarios of games. The teaching style is much more of a "do as I say” sort of style rather than guided discovering but with this method players know exactly what is expected of them. 

Style B: Task: Coaching by task is a teaching style where the coach will set certain drills and tasks for the athletes to complete and then critiquing and providing feedback on the athletes to improve their skills/performance such as a passing drill the coach will step in whilst the drill has commenced and provide his thoughts on players skill acquisition. 

Style C: Reciprocal (peer coaching): Reciprocal coaching is where the coach creates a drill/environment where the athletes can give feedback towards each other. This coaching style enhances not only skill acquisition amongst athletes but also respect and manners amongst the coach's athletes. 

Style D: Coaching by Individual Programming (Self Check): Coaching by Individual Programming is a teaching style of allowing the players to self-assess their performance, the coach essentially creates drills for the athlete to complete and the athlete's role is to self-assess their performance alongside the criteria created by the coach. 

Style E: Small Group Coaching (Inclusion): Coaching by Inclusion is a player-centred approach where the coach will assign small groups of athletes to train together. The use of these small groups promotes teamwork, collective learning and allows these players to interact and provide feedback towards each other. 

Style F: Coaching by Guided Discovery: The coaching style of guided discovery is used to promote understanding amongst athletes by the use of inquiry. The coach's role is to ask questions to guide the players to a single correct answer and to listen to responses and provide more questions to get to that single correct answer. 

Style G: Coaching by Problem Solving (Convergent Discovery): Coaching by problem solving is a teaching style that gets athletes thinking convergently which means their ability to find the ideal solution to a certain situation. The coach's role of this style is to design a problem question or situation for the athletes to solve with the use of their skills, understanding and communication.  

Style H: Coaching for Creativity (Divergent Discovery): The coaching style of creativity is used so the players generate multiple possibilities and answers to situation/question. The coach's role in this style is to plan these situations/questions for the athletes to complete. The use of divergent thinking is made for open problems where creative decisions are needed such as possession games. 

Style I: Player Designed – Coach Supported: The player designed teaching style is where the player's role is to create the session which is then supported by the coaching figure. Players are required to have to plan, think and design in a variety of drills and episodes displaying various coaching techniques and styles 

Style J: Player Initiated – Coach Supported: In this Player initiated and coach supported teaching style, players are required to have the responsibility of designing the environment and learning experience and using the coaching styles they wish to use which is then supported by the coach when asked. 

Style K: Player Self-Coaching: A player self-coaching teaching style is where the athlete takes the role of the coach and also the learner. The player's role is to achieve a desired goal set out by themselves and taught by themselves; it requires the player to be self-critical to ensure that the player gets the most out of the session. An example of this is a goalkeeper in soccer attempting to improve his goal kicks.