TRAINING
Coach the session you intended to coach.
Keep a small number of coaching behaviours visible while drills, questions, mistakes and time pressure compete for attention.
CUEPOINT FOR COACHES
You know how
you want to coach.
The harder part is still coaching that way when the situation changes.
THE INTENTION IS CLEAR
Then coaching gets real.
A mistake. A player reaction. The score. Time pressure. A disagreement. Someone who does not seem to listen. Your own frustration.
YOU MEANT TO
Ask before you tell.
The players hesitate and giving the answer feels faster.
YOU MEANT TO
Stay curious after a mistake.
You already think you know what went wrong.
YOU MEANT TO
Let players solve more themselves.
The score changes and you start controlling every decision.
YOU MEANT TO
Coach the next action.
You are still reacting to what happened thirty seconds ago.
COACHING KNOWLEDGE MATTERS
But behaviour
is what reaches the player.
CUEPOINT IN COACHING
Put your own behaviour in focus.
CuePoint can help turn a broad coaching intention into a few behaviours you can actually notice while you are coaching.
Not a judgement of whether you are a good coach. Not a model telling you there is one correct way to lead every athlete.
A way to practise the coaching behaviour you believe fits this person, this group and this situation.
ONE SITUATION AT A TIME
A simple loop for developing coaching behaviour.
BEFORE01
Choose how you want to coach.
Decide which coaching behaviours matter in this session, match or conversation — before the situation starts pulling you elsewhere.
DURING02
Come back to them.
Use a Cue when score, mistakes, time pressure, frustration or player reactions start changing how you coach.
AFTER03
Rate what you actually did.
Look at your own behaviour while the situation is still fresh — not only at what the players did or how the result turned out.
OVER TIME04
Discover your coaching patterns.
See which behaviours survive demanding situations, which disappear and where your next development question may be.
AFTER TRAINING OR COMPETITION
How did the players do?
What did I actually do?
Player performance does not tell you everything about your coaching.
Players can perform badly while you coach exactly as intended. They can also perform brilliantly on a day when you abandon the behaviours you have been trying to develop.
CuePoint keeps your reflection closer to your own actions.
COACHING SITUATIONS
Work on the part of coaching you can actually do.
CuePoint can be used around very different coaching questions. The Framework determines what you are paying attention to.
MATCHES
Notice what pressure does to your coaching.
Explore whether your behaviour changes when the score tightens, players make mistakes or decisions go against you.
PLAYER DEVELOPMENT
Make your intentions observable.
Instead of only wanting to develop independent players, identify what you as a coach actually need to do more or less of.
COACHING TEAMS
Create a shared development question.
Several coaches can work around the same issue while still allowing different personalities and coaching styles.
CUEPOINT IS ALSO FOR HELPING SOMEONE ELSE
Help the athlete keep their best thinking close.
Coaching is not only about improving your own behaviour. You can also help another person build and use a Framework that fits what they are trying to do.
Share a Framework
Give an athlete a Framework that fits the situation you have been working on together.
Adapt the language
Keep the underlying idea but change words and cues so they sound natural to the athlete using them.
Talk about the same things
Use the Framework as shared language before, during and after training instead of introducing a new explanation every time.
ONE EXAMPLE ALREADY INSIDE CUEPOINT
Quality Practice – In Sport
A coach can use the same Framework as an athlete when the development question is the quality of practice itself.
That creates shared language without requiring the coach and athlete to experience the session in exactly the same way.
CORE FRAMEWORK
Quality Practice – In Sport
Get more development from the training you already do.
Available inside CuePoint.
FROM ONE COACH TO ANOTHER
Good thinking
should travel.
Coaches spend years learning what works in particular situations, with particular athletes and particular groups.
CuePoint can turn some of that experience into Frameworks other people can use, adapt and test in their own environments.
CUEPOINT FOR COACHES
What matters.
When it matters.
Not another theory about coaching. A way to keep the behaviour you want to practise close to the situations where coaching actually happens.