Engage, organise, teach, and understand the game: four core competencies all coaches should master
Coach | Approach | Peter Glynn | 14.10.21
Former FA coach education manager and current assistant coach of Greek side Panetolikos, Steve Rutter (pictured above), discusses the core competencies required to become an effective coach. Getty Images/Bryn Lennon - FA collection.
Learning:
- The importance of emotional intelligence when working with players
- Understanding how players of different ages learn
- Football as a ‘subject matter’ that can be studied
Coaches need to master four core competencies to become effective at their craft, says former FA Coach Education manager, Steve Rutter.
“Dick Bate [former FA coach educator and national coach, who sadly passed away in 2018] is the best coach educator I've seen anywhere in the world in all the time I've been involved and we used to speak about four core competencies: emotional intelligence, your organisational logistical skill, your pedagogical or andragogical [adult learning] skill and subject specific knowledge.
“You need those four things wherever you work and those are the four things that should be identified on the coaching courses,” says Rutter, who has over 30 years’ experience in coaching and coach education, including spells coaching England men’s youth teams as well as assisting the England women’s senior team.
