The Sports Coaching Podcast - Season 3 - Episode 11 - The Importance of Understanding Self as a coach - with Dan Steele

WERE BACK!!!!!!!

A well needed 4 weeks off for Host Sam Holmshaw over the Christmas Period but were back and excited to get going one again.

In this episode Sam was joined by Dan Steele, current MSc Sports Coaching student at Leeds Beckett, Emerging talent squad head coach at Tadcaster Albion & U10 Technical coach at York City FC Regional talent club. The chaps discuss the topic 'the importance of understanding self as a coach', a knowledge domain & treat of an expert coach (Abraham et al, n.d). Dan provides an introduction on 'understanding self' and shares his insight on the importance of this knowledge domain as a coach. Several areas within understanding self are then discussed, such as understanding who you are, how your work, how you think and how this impacts your coaching. Sam & Dan further discuss why we must be aware of our own conception of knowledge/learning and how this may reflect on the opinions we receive from others about our coaching practice.

A fantastic episode, thanks to Dan his patience in joining us on the podcast, certainly was well worth the wait!!!

Can we also give a big shoutout to Feedspot and thank them for recommending our podcast as one of the top 20 Sports Coach podcast's to listen to in 2021. Hugh honour to receive this recognition and we will continue to work hard to improve our product and provide a useful platform to coaches!