CHAPTER 6
DEVELOPING THE EXPERT PERFORMANCE COACH
The term “coaching” is used in many different contexts to describe various roles that individuals take to nurture someone else's development and performance. Coaches enable people to perform to the best of their abilities in different domains of life such as business, personal development, career, finance, health, and sport. In the sport arena, coaches have the broad responsibility to mentor and teach the physical, mental, technical, tactical, and social skills that empower athletes to participate and perform. In 2007, the European Coaching Council defined sport coaching as “the guided improvement of sport participants and teams in a single sport and at ...
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