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IIHF Coaching Symposium, Leadership, Video, Youth Hockey

Coaching for the Development of Better Hockey Players and Better People, with Dr. Jean Côté

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"As coaches you want to develop people. You’re there to develop their confidence and their relationship building with others."

Jean Côté is a professor at Queen’s University and a researcher in the areas of children in sport, coaching, sport expertise, and positive youth development.

You won’t be surprised to hear that Côté’s 77-minute presentation from the 2023 IIHF Coaching Symposium is filled with research and statistics about children in sport, coaching, sport expertise, and positive youth development. Côté supports transformational coaching and how coaches can use it to bring about more impactful development in both players and teams.

It’s not about the result of the game, says Côté. It’s about the four Cs: competence, confidence, connection and character.

“As coaches you want to develop people. You’re there to develop their confidence and their relationship building with others. Those are the things that we know from research that happen through sports, but you need coaches that value these things and work on these things.”

Côté’s outstanding presentation also discusses the indicators of coaching effectiveness, the idealized model of coach/athlete relationships, the Full Range Leadership Model, and the four I’s of Transformational Coaching.

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Dr. Jean Côté

Dr. Côté is Professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen’s University where he served as the Director of the School from 2006-2019. He also holds a cross appointment as a visiting professor in the School of Human Movement Studies at the University of Queensland in Australia, and at Gloucestershire University in the UK. He has a PhD from the University of Ottawa, an MSc from the University of Montréal, and a BSc from the University of Ottawa. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Psychomotor Learning and Sport Psychology (SCAPPS) and the International Society of Sport Psychology (ISSP).

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