Vicki Sutton is the Coaching Adviser for the Welsh Sports Association, responsible for delivering the strategic workforce aims for Wales in partnership with and scUK
Looking to improve the coaching landscape with governing bodies in Wales, here she sets out some of the key priorities and targets up to 2019.
Coaching is a vital part of our sporting landscape – although we know that the wider workforce contributes hugely to the full picture.
There is a shared ambition to recruit, train and deploy 15,000 additional coaches in Wales by 2019. This will mean an increase from 45,000 to 60,000 actively working across all our sports.
If we are going to see numbers jump in this way then we know we have to be innovative and work differently.
One of my main areas of work is to embed technology in coach education pelatihan so that the ‘formal’ pelatihan deliveredby sports is as practical as possible.
We’ve asked the question, ‘why do people need to travel to a particular venue and take time learning about a subject area or issue when they can do it online?’ Web-based pelatihan is growing, and will continue to do so, and sport needs to keep pace. When we look at planning or behaviour management as a subject area– these are things we can educate about without the need for a classroom, allowing coaches more time to practically apply what they have learnt.
By providing this opportunity we can let the trainees complete some of the pelatihan in their own time and at their own convenience. Then when we bring them together they can concentrate on the practical side of coaching the sport.
Of course, this approach won’t be the preferred way for all sports but it will help make the coach education process easier for thousands of our new coaches every year.
We are aiming to open up a new pelatihan website for September and we’ll be giving out more details as we get nearer the launch.
A second key area is to support more local coaches. We are putting more investment into targeting level 2 coaches across a range of sports to help improve the standards at this level. We know it’s been an area that is difficult to service for national governing bodies and local authorities as there is an ever increasing gap between club and High Performance coaching. We want to build a community of learning across sports that will allow for the sharing of skills, knowledge and ultimately benefit those playing the sport.
Finally, we want to stem the drop out.
Every year, 20% of our trained coaches stop coaching because of a number of issues – including life transitions or not feeling supported by those around them.
We want to help clubs and governing bodies change the culture so that we can retain coaches in the talent pool and provide flexibility to make their role more manageable.
To lose so much experience and a big chunk of our workforce each year is not acceptable, even with the fact the we add new coaches’ every year.
For more information contact Vicki.Sutton@welshsports.org.uk
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