Coach's Guide to Mind Mapping: The Fundamental Tools to Become an Expert Coach and Maximize Your Player

Description

The Coach's Guide to Mind Mapping is a tool that will help you become an expert coach. Although this particular learning resource uses soccer examples, it is a technique that can be universally applied within any sporting context. Because the current demands of modern-day coaching require coaches to know and deliver a greater deal of knowledge to players, the mind-mapping technique aims to support the coaching process by helping you to identify and develop your ability to recall technical and tactical knowledge from memory. Additionally, the resource can be used to help facilitate the knowledge acquisition process as you journey through your coaching qualifications while developing key learning skills.This book focuses on developing how you - the coach - can remember, organize, and deliver the technical and tactical information that your players need. It contains guidelines for developing, creating, and evaluating the impact of the mind-mapping technique. Familiar soccer themes are used to help you follow the mind-mapping examples with ease. Interactive exercises help you to practice the mind-mapping technique, reflect on your development, and set personal targets. So go ahead - learn, coach, develop!

Misia Gervis, PhD, is a chartered psychologist and postgraduate programs director at Brunel University. She has been a senior consultant sport psychologist to the FA (English football association) since 2002 and founding member of the British Olympic Association Psychology Advisory Group. Dr. Gervis was the sport psychologist to the English women's senior national soccer team.Temisan Williams is a UEFA licensed coach and MSc sports science graduate and has more than seven years of experience in women's and men's soccer across the grassroots and elite levels. He is currently the senior education officer at West Ham United Foundation and also coaches within the Youth Development Phase at a professional soccer academy in England.