Do You Need to Innovate?

Mark Drummond

Embracing chaos:innovative approaches to coaching and coach education

Will Your Innovative Approach Succeed?

Mark Drummond

Embracing chaos:innovative approaches to coaching and coach education

Innovation– Underpinning

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Embracing chaos:innovative approaches to coaching and coach education

Innovation– Stuff to Think About

Mark Drummond

Embracing chaos:innovative approaches to coaching and coach education

Embracing Chaos - Perception?

Why Do We Need Innovative Coaching?

But...........

We Need to Make Things Easier to Embrace?

Coaching needs Innovation Innovation needs ChangeChange needs PlanningPlanning needs Understanding

Starting Point...

Change & Innovation WILL cause a performance drop

So what do we need to understand?

Performance

Time

Change

Increase in performance

Establish what needs to continue being done the same way

Establish what needs to stop Establish what needs to be improved Establish what needs to be new

.......in the back of your mind

How coaches/players learn People’s reaction to change & innovation

Who is involved - The Team & The Club

Leadership

What Affects Change and Innovation?

How Do Your Coaches/Players Learn?

Concrete ExperienceActivist

Theoretical ConceptsTheorist

Reflective ObserverReflector

PracticalExperimentation

Pragmatist

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Activists (feel & do)◦ Doing something new◦ Trying out things

Reflectors (feel & watch)◦ Observe◦ Time to think◦ Review progress

Theorists (think & watch)◦ Reading about why◦ Analysing the issues

Pragmatists (think & do)◦ Experimenting◦ Producing action plans

How Do Your Coaches/Players Learn?

Plan?Do?Review?

Reaction to Change & Innovation

Denial/Anger

Denial/Anger◦ Ignore it◦ Keep doing the same thing◦ Who is he/she to change things

Bargaining

Fed -up Acceptance

Integration

Bargaining◦ Maybe I don’t need to accept it◦ If I keep coaching/playing/training this

way it will be fine◦ Maybe I can hide and avoid it

Fed Up◦ Pointlessness◦ Refusal◦ Obstruction

Integration◦ Experimenting with new ideas◦ Settling in◦ Behaviour changing

Acceptance◦ OK so it’s going to happen anyhow◦ Better get prepared◦ See what needs to be done

Time

Perfo

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Reaction to Change & Innovation

Denial/Anger Bargaining

Fed -up Acceptance

Integration

How will you minimise this?How will you support

and drive this

When is it a Team and when is it a Group? Group

◦ Any number of people who interact with each other, are aware of each other and perceive themselves as a group

Team◦ A distinguishable set of two or more individuals who

interact interdependently to achieve specific, shared and valued objectives

Who is in your team?◦ Players, Coaches, Coach Developers, Mentors,

Manager etc, etc, etc Learning Styles?? (previous slide)

The Team and The Club

Who is on your Coaching Team? Are the best people doing the most

appropriate jobs or just the ones they like?

The Team and The Club

A Good Leader:◦Creates a climate with a shared vision

◦Helps develop the innovation◦Liaises between the team and interested parties

◦Encourages team member growth◦Is supportive◦Gives direction where needed

Leadership

Do you understand how your coaches/players learn

How will they react to change & innovation

Do you have a Team or a Group and who have you included

What type of Leadership is being exhibited

What Will Affect Your Innovation?

Coaching needs Innovation Innovation needs ChangeChange needs PlanningPlanning needs Understanding

Starting Point...

If we keep repeating the same thing........

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