Day 3 - Friday 2 June
Theme: Pathways and high-performance coach development: philosophy, approach, learnings, key insights and officiating workshops
Intended audience: Coach and Official Education Managers, High Performance and Pathways Managers
World leading by 2032: An Australian approach to coach development
Presenter: Bill Davoren
Session Type: Plenary
Time: 9.30am to 10.30am
Focus Audience: Coaches
Room: Arena
Session Description: Australia aspires to be world leading in HP Coach Development by the home Olympic/Paralympic Games in 2032. Bill will outline why this aspiration is so important, the approach now being undertaken to set us on the right path, and the early successes.
Officiating in a modern world
Facilitator: Brooke Kneebush
Session Type: Panel
Panellists: Graham Cooper and Cheryl Jenkins
Time: 9.30am to 10.30am
Focus Audience: Officials
Room: Recovery
Session Description: Officials from community through to high performance environments will discuss the evolving landscape of officiating and skills required to succeed in today’s sporting environments.
Success leaves clues: What are we hearing?
Presenter: Alan McConnell
Session Type: Workshop
Time: 11.15am to 12.15pm
Focus Audience: Coaches
Room: Arena
Session Description: Coaching conversations involving some of Australia’s leading Olympic, Paralympic and Commonwealth Games coaches, coaches from professional sports and coaches at different stages of their development journeys have helped shed light on what has contributed to their success and/or growth as a coach. Alan will share some of the clues the coaches have left for others to follow.
Shifting the dial: Women in high performance coaching
Presenter: Michelle De Highden
Session Type: Workshop
Time: 11.15am to 12.15pm
Focus Audience: Coaches
Room: Field
Session Description: Whilst there has been an increase in the representation of women in leadership in high performance, less than 10% of funded Australian high performance head coaches are women.
The AIS is leading a project with the Australian high-performance sports to understand the incentives, motivations and barriers encountered by women. The project aims to apply the insights from the narratives of women, and those working with women in high performance coaching, to inform strategy design and potential initiatives to help improve the representation and experiences of women in coaching.
Michelle will take you on our 18 month journey and share insights to add some practical skills to your coach education toolkit, that can impact on gender equity and diversity in your coach education programs.
AIS Elevate Coach: Applied learning projects
Presenter: Dr Graham Turner
Session Type: Workshop
Time: 11.15am to 12.15pm
Focus Audience: Coaches
Room: Court
Session Description: Elevate Coach Alumni share their athlete development learnings from the program.
(Bio) Relative Age Effects in Netball - Amber Cross, 17/U NSW State Team Head Coach/Central Coast Premier League Head Coach
(Psycho) Mental Toughness - Matt Wells, HP Lead Coach Queensland Hockey
(Social) Communication and Relationships - Nathan McMahon, NSW 7s Head Coach
Optimising the officiating experience – Why be an official?
Presenter: Brooke Kneebush & Kay Robinson
Session Type: Workshop
Time: 11.15am to 12.15pm
Focus Audience: Officials
Room: Recovery
Session Description: This workshop will explore the potential to rethink the value proposition of sports. With a modern approach, the role of officials is evolving, and this workshop will examine how this impacts the value proposition, the rewards, opportunities and challenges.
Delving deep into the ‘how’ of officiating
Presenter: Brooke Kneebush
Session Type: Workshop
Time: 1.15pm to 2.15pm
Focus Audience: Officials
Room: Recovery
Session Description: Understanding the needs, requirements and motivations of participants is key to creating inclusive, physically, and psychologically safe sporting environments for participants. Officials play an integral role in the quality of the participants’ experience but to be effective need to first invest time into understanding themselves, what their motivations are and how aligned they are to supporting their environment. This workshop will investigate some of the skills required of officials beyond enforcing rules: the emotional intelligence, communication, leadership and decision-making skills and how officials can be supported to develop these.
Targeted skill development to accelerate skill in talent transfer athletes
Presenter: Dr Michael Maloney
Other Presenters: Rachel Hunt, AIS Performance Pathways Consultant, Renee McElduff, Aerial Ski Coach, Miriana Perkins and Sidney Stephens, Aerial Ski Emerging athletes
Session Type: Workshop - Case Study
Time: 1.15pm to 2.15pm
Focus Audience: Pathway Coaches
Room: Court
Session Description: A case study from the Olympic Winter Institute Aerial skiing talent transfer program that looked at an identified skill gap and attempted to accelerate athletes, which resulted in multiple and some unexpected learnings for coaches and athletes.
Next steps – ASC modern approach to officiating
Presenter: Brooke Kneebush
Session Type: Workshop
Time: 2.20pm to 3.00pm
Focus Audience: Officials
Room: Recovery
Session Description: To conclude the conference, this workshop will draw together insights from previous workshops and how they will inform ASC initiatives to modernise the approach to officiating.
High performance coach journeys
Facilitator: Bill Davoren
Session Type: Panel
Panellists: Barry Dancer, Ady Hinchcliffe and Gen 32 Coach (TBC)
Time: 2.15pm to 3.15pm
Focus Audience: Performance Coaches
Room: Arena
Session Description: Hear from three coaches, at different stages of their coaching careers, as they share their coach journeys and answer questions from panel facilitator Bill Davoren and from you, the session audience. Hear about their growth moments and their successes; what is it that you would you like to know more about?