Hi Al,
Okay, here’s a scenario:
You’re a sailing coach.
You have lots of knowledge in your brain.
You have a sailor in front of you who needs that knowledge.
You need to transfer that knowledge from your brain to your sailor’s brain.
How do you do it?
You could, theoretically, give your sailor a 496-hour chalk talk and “teach” your sailor everything you know about sailing.
Right? That will totally work, right? Yeah, no.
It turns out, when it comes to learning information and developing new skills, human beings are a little more complicated.
As a coach, you need to layer information. You need to teach concepts when sailors are ready to learn them. And it’s not just about knowledge. Sailors need to internalize the information so it can become a skill. And then they need to develop mastery of that skill.
The technical term for this learning process is an “Improvement Cycle.”
This week in Coaches Conversation, we’re looking at how you can Create an Ongoing Improvement Cycle. We’ll look at how sailors learn knowledge and new skills and how you can build practices and debriefs that support your sailors’ skills progression over time.
We’ll be meeting live at 11:00 AM Eastern. Join us.
FULL SCHEDULE
Oct. 19 - Creating an ongoing improvement cycle for your sailors
Oct. 26 - Maximizing your limited practice time
Nov. 2 - Making sailors active participants in their debriefs
Nov. 9 - Stop herding cats: Helping sailors build accountability and responsibility in their training
This series is free, and we encourage all coaches – whether you coach youth club racing, collegiate sailing, or adult teams – to join us.
