The benefits of coaching go far beyond helping people become better athletes. Coaching positively and profoundly impacts on all aspects of people’s lives.
To help define what great coaching may look like, UK Coaching has devised its six key principles of great coaching.
Centred on the appropriate and easy-to-remember acronym PEOPLE – because coaching is all about people – these principles are:
P – Person centred
E – Empowering
O – Organised
P – Positive
L – Learning
E – Engaging
“As the lead organisation for coaching excellence it’s our vision to help create an active nation inspired through great coaching,” explains UK Coaching’s Director of Coaching Emma Atkins. “Through our Principles the general public now have a guide to understand what that is and what effect it can have on them and society at large.
“It is vital that we showcase how over 3 million people currently coaching in the UK – benefiting over 9 million people – are out there to support others through the medium of sport and physical activity. This is especially important during a time where we are seeing a range of societal issues, such as rising obesity; rising levels of mental health issues; and a growing epidemic of loneliness with both our young and elderly populations.