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How to Deliver Engaging Sessions for Young People

Expand your knowledge to support positive experiences for 14 to 25 year olds and ensure sustained participation

UK Coaching was formerly known as Sports Coach UK. We changed our name after expanding our support as an organisation. 

Research from Sport England shows a dropout rate across most sports around the ages of 14 to 25.

This is a practical-based workshop that will develop your coaching to help you better meet the needs of this age group.

Through the use of practical examples you will learn about new participants’ needs, including how to build their self-confidence, motivation and self-esteem.

This in turn will help you improve the coaching experience of young people and help to ensure they keep coming back for more.

Understanding and implementing the ‘C’ system framework (connection; confidence; character; creativity; caring and compassion; competence) has been a game-changer for many coaches and is an essential component of this workshop, which will help you understand how your coaching fits into a much wider agenda than sport.

You will learn how to identify:

  • different stages of young people’s participation development
  • differences in coaching styles that meet young people’s requirements
  • differences in coaching styles in different environments: schools, satellite clubs, colleges, universities and clubs.
  • you will be able to include the ‘C’ system approach in your coaching, helping to aid the development of your athletes as both people and performers.

You will receive a copy of How to Deliver Engaging Sessions: Developing Adults and Young People Through Sport at the workshop to guide you in your future coaching.

Each section of the 50-page book contains thought-provoking questions for you to consider using self-reflection and diagnosis of your own methods.

There are spaces where you are encouraged to set short, medium and long-term goals for achieving the good practice outlined in the book.

Each of the sections expanding on the ‘C’ system will contain explanations of the relevance of the ‘C’ being examined, and the summary will focus on the three phases of developing, sustaining and rejoining participation.

What Coaches Think

This was such a fun and informative workshop that I would have no hesitation in recommending it to all coaches. It’s had a massive impact on the way I coach, with attendance and retention at my sessions improving dramatically. I found it fascinating that so many of the ideas/games are transferable to your own sport. It speaks volumes that I would go again!

Laura Hankin,  Badminton SmashUp Activator and Level 1 Football Coach and Referee
 

I’d been on a few [UK Coaching] workshops before and had found them very good. This one really stood out as I saw it as a great opportunity to find out how I can improve and better engage 14–25 year olds so we could reduce the dropout rate at the clubs I coach at. It was an interesting, refreshing, energising and good value workshop.

Maria Timperley, Level 2 Aquatics Coach, Milton Abbas Sports Club and Swimming Club
 

Information for Organisations

Want to arrange this workshop for a group of 6 people or more?

If you have more than 6 people to train, we’ll come to you.

Tell us your preferred date and time and we will arrange for one of our tutors to deliver the session. We will help market the event too if you want us to.

Workshop fee £275 (for up to 25 learners) plus £12.99 per attendee (for the supporting resource).

E-mail us at [email protected] or call us on 0845-601 3054 to organise this workshop.

If you have an in-house trainer you can deliver this workshop under licence.

 

Format

3-hour workshop

Number of Learners

A minimum of 6 and a maximum of 25 people 

Delivery Method

A mix of theory and practical

Accompanying Learning Materials

50-page How to Deliver Engaging Sessions: Developing Adults and Young People Through Sport resource booklet for each learner to take away to deepen their knowledge or refer to.

 

We will do most of the hard work. We will send you the accompanying learning materials; our trainer will run the session and we will email your learners their certificates after the event. 

But here are the things you will need to do to ensure your learners have an enjoyable experience. 

Book a space

A meeting room with enough space for the group to split into smaller groups (at least 12 x 12 metres). All venues must be accessible for all participants, including those who may have additional needs (eg wheelchair users). Where possible, a room with WIFI connectivity would be preferable. Please supply the login and password details to the tutor, where applicable.

Communicate with your learners and take bookings

We will market the event on our site if you want us to. But you will also need to invite your people or advertise the event through your own communications. You will need to make sure it’s easy for people to book on the event and you will need to take bookings and issue booking confirmations.

Arrange equipment

Screen or laptop and data projector, flip chart, paper and pens are required. Internet access would be beneficial.

 

Do you have your own tutor team? Save over 60% on each workshop you deliver and take advantage of further benefits by becoming a UK Coaching Licensed Partner.

Can't find a course?

Our partners put on our workshops across the UK. They will put on a workshop near to you if enough people express interest.

If you live in England, get in touch with your Active Partnership to register your interest.

sportscotland, Sport Wales and Sport Northern Ireland run our workshops outside of England and advertise our workshops on their own websites.

Alternatively register with us and you will receive a monthly newsletter detailing the latest workshops running across the country.

Waiting for a course?

In the meantime check out our guidance, developed in partnership with Sport England, to help inspire you to make your sessions more engaging for young people

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