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ANDY BRADSHAW
The way I've learned over a number of years has been working with more experienced coach developers, making sense of their practise, applying it my own, and trying things.
JANE LOMAX
One of the most powerful influences on that is working alongside other coach developers, people who've been doing it longer than me, and bouncing ideas with them, and having a look at how they use those adult learning principles to tease out the learning from the coaches. I find that very informative and really helpful.
ANDY BRADSHAW
It's been crucial in my learning to find the time and the space to reflect effectively and critically on what I do, and how I do it, and how I can improve.
JANE LOMAX
Well, I'm quite a sort of thinker. And when I finish trying something, whether that was in teaching, coaching myself, or whether in coach development, I will always think about it afterwards. And sometimes, some of the things that you try work really well, and sometimes you try the same idea on someone else, and it doesn't work nearly so well. So those car journeys on the way home are particularly busy in my head because I spend a lot of time thinking about how could I make it better.
ANDY BRADSHAW
The process of looking at current research and trying to make sense of that in my mind to try to understand why I'm doing what I'm doing and possibly why I'm not doing other things is crucially important. So an example from the last six months would be exploring the think aloud process, so that is as simple as a coach or a coach developer verbalising their decision making process. And that is something that can really bring to life coaching practise and Coach development practise. And I found it as useful for me as a coach developer as it is for coaches.
JANE LOMAX
Well, I have a great support network. Most of my coaching and coach development work happens in England Netball. We have a regular basis of courses that we all go to and meet, and that exchange of ideas with other people working in the same sport and trying to develop coaches within an England Netball ethos of what we're after is a very rich source. Some of those are compulsory, and some I would volunteer to go on anyway because I always find that exchange is really important for consistency across the sport as well.
ANDY BRADSHAW
Curiosity is a big part of the learning process for me. Finding out different sources of information, maybe from different sectors, different sports, and applying that learning into my own practise.
Building a network of trusted colleagues and peers has been a really important part of my development, and I think it's important just to think of the depth of reflection and some challenge as well, so not always surrounding myself with people that agree with me. Finding that challenge point and reflecting on it effectively.