Notes and Presentations from the AusSport Coaching Conference

Community Coach Development Manager Neil Gray attended on behalf of Basketball Australia and please find below and attached some of his notes on various presentations and if possible the presentations themselves.

1. Matt Cox – Developing High Performing Environments – see notes below
2. Sonya Thompson – Success Profiles – see notes below
3. Amber Cross RelativeAgeEffect
4. Bill Davoren – World Leading by 2032
5. David Joyce – Through the Looking Glass_Coaching_ASC Conference_2023_handout
6. Julia Lawrence – CO Conference 23_Structuring Conversations for Impact
7. Michelle De Highden – Shifting the Dial

Matt Cox – Developing High Performing Environments 

What are they?

How do we get one?

Why do we need it?

It’s not a gym, new facility or lots of staff. They are just factors.

“Whoever will be cured of ignorance, let him confess it”

People are HP environment

The game theory of High Performance

There are broadly two types of games,

Finite – known players, fixed rules, agreed endpoint of games, wins and losses and stats focus

Infinite – known and unknown players, malleable rules, not set end point, no winning just advancement, focus on legacy.

5 key factors for HP environment to play the infinite game

1. Justifiable Cause – what inspires ? What are the human factors?
2. Courageous Leadership – you have to want to be a leader. Anyone can be a father or mother but can you be a parent? Ownership, regardless of fault. “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear”
3. Trusting teams – vulnerability . Examine cause and effect through scenarios. Feeling – watching- thinking – doing. If-why-how-what
4. Worthy rival – our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we can be
5. Ordered flexibility- water is both ordered and flexible at the same time. It maintains its own identity, but confirms as necessary to the circumstances around it. Best is not a permanent state, instead strive to be be better. Better suggests a journey of constant improvement and makes us feel like we are being invited to contribute our talents and energies to make progress in that journey.

R.E.A.C.T (Tick these off for your players to create an HP Environment)

Resources (do they have what they need)

Environment (is it conducive)

Attitude (Have they got the right one)

Concentration (Can they do it)

Timing (Is it right)

Strategy without tactics is the long road to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before the defeat

Success Profiles – Sonya Thompson 

Agreed competencies of a State Head Coach (male or female) . Pulled from Interviews, workshops, validation surveys and Broad perspectives as well as a coaching profile made up of 4 areas.

What people know – knowledge

What people can do – competencies

What people have done – experience

Who people are – personal attributes and motivation (behaviours)

Competencies

1. Creating a culture of trust
2. Emotional Intelligence essentials
3. Aligning performance for success
4. Coaching and Developing Others
5. Creating an Inclusive Environment
6. Building Partnerships
7. Decision Making
8. Inspiring Others
9. Guiding team success

The above are the key 9 that came out. There was then a further tier of 5 competencies just below.

1. Delegation and Empowerment
2. Strategic Planning
3. Execution
4. Influencing
5. Selecting Talent

Can you or someone in your coaching team execute against these? Below each of these you can then add further breakdown and descriptors

Knowledge – coaching and performance dynamics (sport specific)

Experience – Building relationships and culture, Team performance, vision planning and strategy, self – awareness

Behaviours – Positive approach, leveraging feedback, continuous learner, Driving for results, Courage, adaptability