Professor Keith Davids: are your coaching role models appropriate to your coaching context?
Coach | Values | Keith Davids| 04.06.2021
Research shows that coaches learn how to ‘coach’ from copying role models in the elite game. Image: getty images.
Learning:
• How role models influence how coaches learn to coach
• The dangers of emulating elite coaches viewed on TV
• Identifying appropriate role models for your club and context
Emulating elite role models such as Jurgen Klopp or Jose Mourinho can be damaging for grassroots coaches – and players - explains Keith Davids, professor in skill acquisition at Sheffield university.
“When you look at the research literature, one of the interesting findings when you look at coaching and coaching behaviours is that coaches learn how to coach by copying models,” explains Davids, who has over 30 years’ teaching and research experience in skill acquisition.
“They want to coach like Jose Mourinho or Jurgen Klopp. And often with these models they see shouting from the sidelines during matches.”
