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!