Jaunary 2024 Issue No 5
Kia ora koutou ngā matanga nō te ao hākinakina, tēnā kotuou.
Welcome to the fifth edition of Coaches Kōrero.
Happy New Year and welcome to the fifth edition of Coaches Kōrero.
I hope you are having the opportunity to refresh and recharge over the festive season.
At Te Korowai – Sports Performance Coaches New Zealand (SPCNZ), we look forward to growing our programme of work and engagement with you and the Performance Coaching Community in New Zealand.
Coaches Kōrero has been established to recognise and celebrate our Performance Coaching community in New Zealand.
In this issue we profile Raylene Bates MNZM, Athletics New Zealand Para Lead and HP Throw Coach and Peter McIntyre, Touch New Zealand’s Open Women’s Coach, two really interesting profiles.
Andrew Longley, our team performance expert shares his fifth instalment in his ongoing series. This month he focuses on the importance of developing Meaningful Goals that Actually Work.
If you have coaches, who you think we should profile or content you think we should include please make contact as we see an important role of the organisation is to celebrate and recognise our coaches. This is our platform. Andrew’s contact details are below:
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Ngā mihi,
Tom Willmott
Chair
Raylene Bates
Holding multiple roles in New Zealand athletics over many years, the influence of Raylene Bates has been significant, none more so than her efforts in helping transform Para athletics into a place where it has become the envy of the world.
Currently Athletics NZ Para Lead and High Performance Throws Coach, Bates has spent over 40 years coaching able-bodied and para athletes in the throwing disciplines. Her first appointment to a fulltime paid role in coaching came with the sport’s governing body in 2013 which included leading the Para programme.
Before that, she had spent 27 years coaching athletics in her own time and when the opportunity came to pursue her passion as a fulltime paid employee, there was some trepidation.
Peter McIntyre
Peter McIntyre was touted to be one of the best touch coaches around, but was still losing crucial matches.
He had represented New Zealand close to 100 times and knew the game inside out, but there was something missing.
“I was a very systematic coach when I first started, but I lost a lot of real nailbiters,” McIntyre explains.
Andrew Longley
Meaningful Goals that Actually Work
The art and neuroscience of high-performance coaching
Article 5 in the Series of 12
Great to be back with you. In my Fourth article I introduced you to another part of the coachup model of high- performance teams and coaches, which you can see below. We looked at the science behind Trust and Psychological Safety in order to stimulate innovation, teamwork and performance.
