PYC4812 Assignment 2 2024 | Due 12 August 2024

Description

Section A: Initial contact(s) with a coach – one typed page
This section describes your initial contact(s) with a coach, where you form a working
relationship and a conversational context with the coach, in order to collaborate with him/her
in removing obstacles to coaching the team. If possible, you must also spend some time
observing the coach in action (i.e. coaching the team). Please be careful to consider ethical
guidelines in reporting on your project. This section includes the following:
▪ background information about the coach
▪ a description of the contacts – where, when, and so on
▪ your impression of the coach’s reaction to the meeting
▪ an “intake summary”
▪ identified areas for intervention and justification for this focus
Section B: Literature research – maximum of two typed pages
This section is a description of the second stage of your project, where you consult the
recommended literature on performance enhancement, in order to describe any
ideas/techniques/interventions that could be of benefit to your coach. The main outcome of
this section should be a description of the ideas/techniques/interventions that you think may
be used to enhance the coaching style. You should also motivate why they could be of benefit
to the coach, using appropriate literature.
Section C: Intervention – maximum of two typed pages
This section describes the interaction with the coach during which you give him/her advice on
what you have discovered in Section A and Section B. In other words, during this intervention
session, you discuss what psychological obstacles the coach appears to be experiencing and
describe some of the ideas and techniques that you think may be of benefit to him/her based
on your literature research. However, please note that because you are not a qualified
psychologist, you are not in the position to formally implement any of the
ideas/techniques/intervention with your coach. This section includes the following:
▪ description of how the intervention was introduced
▪ description of the reaction of the coach to the intervention (e.g. how receptive was the
coach to your suggestions)
▪ few general insights that you gained during this session about interacting with an coach
Section D: Feedback – maximum of one typed page
In this section you must describe feedback that you receive from your coach, four weeks after
the intervention session described above. This section includes the following:
▪ description of the feedback
▪ discussion of your own assessment of the success (or lack of success) that your
intervention in Section C had on the coach’s performance.
Section E: Overall reflection – maximum of one typed page
This section gives an overall personal reflection of the whole process.