How would you spend the money?
What would be your first action
We were at an airport and someone asked …..
If you had £100,000 to spend on your coach development what would you choose?
(but you must split it 3 ways!!)
The rules 🙂
- It can be as selfish as you like or you can share the experience
- There is no limit on the time period
- There must be at least 3 different experiences
What happened
It certainly produced a lively debate and discussion
Some people were accused of only picking visits to Asia because of the food and weather 
Others found it much harder than they thought to split it 3 ways, especially finding 3 different themes.
Then there was the question of experiencing the learning with others. Would it be more productive to do it alone or be with some friends? The late evening chats over a great meal certainly sounded attractive.
Would you find it easy to decide how to spend the £100,000?
What did people choose?
The most common reply was to visit different badminton hot spots
All the expected places like Denmark, Malaysia, China and Indonesia were mentioned.
A few coaches thought about going to emerging nations such as France.
Everyone spoke about staying a minimum of 3 – 4 weeks in each to get fully immersed.
Employing or shadowing a mentor was another theme
People felt that being able to spend active and quiet time with an experienced coach/mentor would be interesting and could throw up some surprising insights.
One person wanted to put £60k into starting an academy
However, they weren’t sure if that was enough money, how long it would last, how far that would go, who they would employ to help them or if it would end up being hard work.
No one offered to share the experience with another coach
More specific respones
- Visit national training centres ie. Brondby x 2 every year
- Mentoring (ongoing for 2yrs) from Kenneth Jonassen for example
- Mentoring from a sports psychologist who worked with racket sports
- Employ someone to work with them to develop their coaching skills, their practice design, the choices they made when coaching.
- To attend all the Coach Educatsion course they could find, BWF, BEC Project Advanced, Danish, etc
- Identify an expert who could listen to their thoughts, help them find their own solutions, nudge them through challenges in a 'safe' environment.
Why consider this question
Sometimes we forget to consider our next step in our coach development
It’s great to dream, as some things can be more realistic than we first imagined
Do you want a conversation?
I’d like to hear from you if you have a viewpoint on anything that you’ve read
We don’t need to agree, but explore viewpoints.
It would be great to hear from you, send me an email : contact@badmintonandy.com
This is part of a series of conversation starters.
Although not in detail, the posts are written to get you thinking and talking with others.
