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Seminars
Seminar 3:

Learning at the Heart of Coaching – Building a Culture
of Self-improvement One Step at a Time
Speakers: Tony Faulkner (Provelop Consultancy), Andy Grant and Kurt Lindley (sports coach UK)
A culture can be defined as ‘the way we do things around
here’. Creating a new culture within a sports team or an
organisation can take a long time and requires considerable
resource. When we are attempting to develop a culture for a
whole sector such as sports coaching, it can be daunting, and
we don’t know where to start.
This session has a focus on generating solutions that answer
the question: how can we go about creating a culture of
self-improvement in sports coaching?
We explore a solution based on the Compound Effect and
look at different concepts for our inspiration to generate new
solutions that can be used in sport.
The Compound Effect involves individuals taking many
small, practical actions over an extended period of time
that will lead to long-term changes in behaviour. When all
the individual’s actions are added together, we have started
to create a real change in the culture of sports coaching: a
culture of self-improvement.
The session will examine the role of learning in coaching,
including the coach as a learner, as well as the coach creating
a culture of learning.
Being solution-focused, the session will set the presenters and
you, the delegates, a challenge: to generate 101 practical actions
that can be implemented to put learning at the heart of coaching.

To generate these actions, the presenters will highlight
concepts that look at the implications for the individual coach
through to the wider organisation.
Andy will introduce the Compound Effect and look at how
the concept can help create a culture of self-improvement in
sports coaching.
Tony will look at the importance of the modern coach
having a ‘learning mindset’. He will outline the changes in the
sports performer over the last 20 years and highlight that the
modern coach needs to have the ability and willingness to
learn to keep pace.
Kurt will take a wider look at ‘learning at the heart of
coaching’ and explore the field of organisational management.
He will outline the concept of the ‘learning organisation’
and challenge you to generate practical solutions for your
coaching workforce.
You should enter the session with a ‘learning mindset’, ready
to collaborate and generate solutions.
You should leave the session informed on ways of putting
learning at the heart of coaching, creating a culture of
self-improvement in your own sport, feeling empowered
to get organisational buy-in and inspired to become a
self-improvement champion.