TIME
MANAGEMENT
TIPS
FOR
RUGBY
COACHES
Time management is one
of the biggest hurdles that a
rugby coach faces. Having
an allocated time for rugby
trainings, season preparation
and match day fixtures will help
you achieve what you have set
out to achieve, but not if they
unrealistic. Having conducted
some recent research, we at
Global Rugby have identified five
tips that actually work to help
with your time management.
There are hundreds of useful
time management tips out there
but we have found five that
relate directly to our great game
of rugby.
ONE:
USE THE OFF
SEASON!
At the end of a season, and hopefully a Mad-Monday depending
on your side’s success, it is important to begin planning for next
season while it’s still fresh in your mind. Whether you won that
title and are keen for another, or you narrowly missed out and
eager to go one better next year, utilising and employing time
management skills around the end of the season is an excellent
start to preparing for next season. What is very popular is to
enrol y our squad in an off-season Strength and Conditioning
program that ensures your players are kept in excellent shape
leading into the next season.
Whilst your players are continuously training under
professionals, use this time to plan what you want to achieve
next season – in both the Pre-Season and Regular Season.
Create a spreadsheet or download one of our templates to
allocate specific amounts of time to specific skills you want to
improve. Plan each training session, what you’re going to coach
and use the allocated time management skills to achieve it.
TWO:
BE ORGANISED!
As a player, there’s nothing worse than fronting up to rugby
training to see your coach either hasn’t arrived yet or has no
clue what he wants to coach at that specific training session.
Turn up early, set up your cones and lie out all the equipment
you intend to use for that session. Having consulted your plan
from above point, you should already know what you want to
teach. Always carry a whistle, perhaps a clipboard and a pen,
and a printout reminding you of rugby drills and key learning
outcomes you intend to use.
Now, as a player who shows up to training and see’s a Rugby
Coach who is already there, cones, drills and equipment all
ready to go, you tell me how much of a more positive effect
that has. It’s all about being organised that will help your time
management.