Events

Core Training for Evaluators is a 5-hour workshop that all Evaluator candidates must take. The workshop focuses on the evaluation principles and processes that Evaluators need to follow when evaluating coaches.

The Coaching and Leading Effectively module gives you the skills needed to:

• promote a positive image of sport, and model it to athletes and those supporting their performance;
• deliver clear messages and explanations when communicating with athletes and their supporters;
• identify opportunities to interact with all athletes and use feedback to improve and correct performance and behaviour.

After taking this workshop, coaches will have the knowledge needed to:

• Identify common injuries in their sport and develop appropriate prevention and recovery strategies to keep their athletes injury-free during training and competition.
• Offer valuable information and guidance on hydration, nutrition, and sleep as they relate to injury prevention.
• Choose skills and drills that help athletes perform appropriate warm-ups and cool-downs.

The Advanced Practice Planning module will give you the skills to:

• identify the factors that affect practice planning;
• ensure that practice plans are consistent with the microcycles and phases they’re part of;
• sequence exercises so that their order is consistent with the research on sequencing;
• develop a plan for training athletic abilities over a microcycle;

Manage a Sport Program will teach you to:

• manage administrative aspects of the program and oversee logistics;
• manage staff's roles and responsibilities;
• manage camp and tournament finances and travel;
• report on athlete progress throughout program.

Upon completing the MED module you’ll be able to:

• analyze a challenging situation and determine if it has moral, legal or ethical implications;
• apply the NCCP Ethical Decision-Making Model to properly respond to each situation in a way that is consistent with the NCCP Code of Ethics.

The Planning a Practice module will give you the skills to:

• organize a well-structured practice plan with safe, age-appropriate activities you’ve designed to match the proficiency level of participants;
• identify potential risk factors that could impact the sport and practice activities;
• identify practice goals and design activities that offer the best training benefits for the athletic skills required in your sport.

This module will allow coaches to:

• Identify common sources of conflict in sport.
• Determine which individuals or groups are most likely to find themselves in situations involving conflict.
• Learn important skills that will help coaches prevent and solve conflict resulting from misinformation, miscommunication, or misunderstanding.