ICCE International Master Class Limerick 2005

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ICCE International Master ClassLimerick 2005

• Ethics in Coaching
• Issues in Coaching Practice
• (Threats, Control, Compromises)

Hamish McD Telfer St Martins College, Lancaster
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Professional Practice

• Outcome (winning) v Development defining the
  good coach? - Competence
• Risk taking you or them?
• Decision making - influences
• Negligence
• Sport culture influence
• Limits and operating at them (eg. training loads)
• Technical competence (knowledge))
• Technical competence (practice)
• Training limits limits of human performance
• Poaching Representative coaches v personal
  coaches

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Personal values

• Defining ethical positions
• Morality
• Prejudice race/ethnicity/gender/religion/ability
  -disability
• Young performers and maturational responsibility
• Performer behaviour and performer values
• Language and actions coaching
  behaviour/communication
• The performer outside sport the total
  performance environment

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Power relationships

• Gain who?
• Selection
• Training loads
• Coaching hierarchies the coaching team
• MSTs - non coaching personnel (reliance,
  authority status)
• Relationships
• Illegal performance enhancers

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Pressures

• Personal compromise
• Public responsibility
• Volunteers
• Financial
• Selection
• National prestige
• Coaching hierarchies and ladder climbing
• Right outcome.wrong actions.! (ends and means)
• Short v Long term solutions coach v performer

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The Law!

• Misrepresentation qualifications/experience/achi
  evements
• Competence and defining whether you are!
  situational competence
• Boundaries who draws them? (socially identified
  - legally defined) Case law
• Negligence
• Acceptable risk

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Basis of ethical practice

• Professionalism service orientation best
  interests (volunteer v paid status)
• Values from? coach?..sport?.society?
• Codes of Conduct and Practice moral
  certainty?
• Whats not in is therefore OK?
• Are they any use do they inform?
• Practice obligations auditing
• Responsibility

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Questions!

• Do we know what values we possess?
• Do we know how these define what we coach?
• Do we know how these define how we coach?
• How do we balance risk v outcome?
• How do we make and take decisions?
• How do we deal with ethical compromise?