Day 2 - Thursday 1 June
Theme: Coach and official education and development and social learning
Intended audience: Coach and Official Education Managers, Participation Managers, High Performance and Pathways Managers
What’s happening with Coaching and Officiating at the Australian Sports Commission
Presenter: Brooke Kneebush and Dr Will Vickery
Session Type: Plenary
Time: 9.10am to 9.40am
Focus Audience: Coaches and Officials
Room: Arena
Session Description: An update on what the Australia Sports Commission’s Coaching and Officiating team is currently working on and what is coming in the future. This session will also include opportunities for those in attendance to provide insight and ideas on what they would like to see that might assist in the development of their coaches and officials.
How you improve: Self-reflection for coaches
Presenter: Dr Will Vickery
Session Type: Workshop
Time: 9.45am to 11.00am
Focus Audience: Coaches
Room: Arena
Session Description: In this session, attendees will take part in a workshop version of the How you improve Masterclass. Attendees will be required to complete a variety of tasks and activities that are designed to improve their knowledge of what effective reflection involves and how this can be achieved.
How you improve: Self-reflection for officials
Presenter: Brooke Kneebush and Dr Richard Keegan
Session Type: Workshop
Time: 9.45am to 11.00am
Focus Audience: Officials
Room: Field
Session Description: An often overlooked, yet important part of improving one’s performance as a sports official is reflecting on your last performance, identifying what to develop and build upon in future. This session will look at strategies for empowering officials to take control of their own development beyond the rules of the sport, reflect upon their own performance, identify opportunities for learning and improvement, develop action steps to enhance future performance and continue the cycle of growth.
What you coach and Game Sense
Presenter: Dr Shane Pill
Session Type: Practical Session
Time: 9.45am to 11.00am
Focus Audience: Coaches
Room: Court and outside
‘Max 20 attendees per workshop’
Session Description: This practical workshop will bring to life the What you coach Masterclass using the Game Sense approach. Attendees will be required to complete a variety of tasks and activities (including practical activities) that are designed to improve their knowledge of how to design and lead a session underpinned by the Game Sense approach.
Suncorp Team Girls
Presenter: Lisa Rees
Session Type: Plenary
Time: 11.45am to 12.00pm
Focus Audience: Coaches and Officials
Room: Arena
Developing high performing environments
Presenter: Matt Cox
Session Type: Plenary
Time: 12.00pm to 12.45pm
Focus Audience: Coaches and Officials
Room: Arena
Session Description: TBC
Coaching - Global trends informing the future of coaching in Australia
Presenter: David Joyce
Session Type: Plenary
Time: 1.45pm to 2.45pm
Focus Audience: Coaches and Officials
Room: Arena
Session Description: Coaches are so often immersed in helping the athlete in front of them that they rarely have time to look up and see the big changes that will impact the way they work in the future. After almost 750 hours of interviewing coaches, leaders, practitioners and athletes around the world, David will take us through the headwinds and tailwinds we expect to encounter in coaching in the coming decade.
Success profiles: the human skills required for developing coaches
Presenter: Sonya Thompson
Session Type: Workshop
Time: 2.50pm to 4.05pm
Focus Audience: Coaches and Officials
Room: Arena
Session Description: TBC
Leveraging social value to support coaches in practice
Presenter: Dr Lindsey Reece
Session Type: Workshop
Time: 2.50pm to 4.05pm
Focus Audience: Coaches and Officials
Room: Field
Session description: TBC
Structuring conversations for impact
Presenter: Julia Lawrence
Session Type: Networking and Collaboration Session
Time: 2.50pm to 4.05pm
Focus Audience: Coaches and Officials
Room: Field
Session description: In this workshop, delegates will consider some common coaching and officiating scenarios and will explore how to utilise some useful models to gain an awareness and understanding of our thinking patterns and how it impacts behaviour, perspective taking and development.
The power to learn from and with others
Presenter: Cameron Tradell and Lúcás Ó’Ceallacháin
Session Type: Workshop
Time: 4.10pm to 5.25pm
Focus Audience: Coaches and Officials
Room: Arena
Session description: The power of storytelling and understanding self is key to developing our next generation of coaches. This Q&A session explores how social learning can complement formal development opportunities through an inquisitive mindset and modern learning designs.
Community of Practice in action to support social learning
Presenter: Julia Lawrence
Session Type: Workshop
Time: 4.10pm to 5.25pm
Focus Audience: Coaches and Officials
Room: Field
Session description: A Community of Practice (CoP) is a high value, low-cost initiative to connect people with a common interest and who have a passion for learning, developing and growing their practice together. After exploring the value and different models for implementing a CoP to support informal social learning in coaching and officiating, delegates will participate in a CoP to solve common coaching problems.
Reimagining the sport officiating experience
Presenter: Brooke Kneebush and Nathan Magill
Session Type: Workshop
Time: 4.10pm to 5.25pm
Focus Audience: Officials
Room: Court
Session description: Beyond the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of officiating, this workshop will dig deep into the ‘why’. Delegates will be challenged to test long ingrained norms, look to the root causes of officiating attrition and identify ways to create new norms for an optimised officiating experience.