Research Poster Presentation Issue Knowledge gap about the impact of coaching behaviour and coach-athlete relationship on the athlete's performance and outcome Goal Understand the effects of coaches’ emotions on the performance of their athletes Author Anthony Mok

Outline of the Issue Why is it an issue for me at this time? Meaningless to applaud coaches for producing star athletes but who are doing the wrong things Need to replace experience-based rule of thumb constraint by competition between coaches with best practices derived from the science of coaching that are available to all The science of coaching may be the new edge for athlete performance at regional and international sporting events

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coaching and sports - 26 Hits

psychology and coaching - 5 Hits

emotional intelligence and coaching - 6 Hits

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emotional intelligence and sports performance - 0 Hit

emotional intelligence and performance and - 0 Hit

emotional intelligence and coaching and sports - 0 Hit

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emotion - 5 Hits

emotional intelligence - 158 Hits

coaching - 26 Hits

What Have I Found Out So Far Leaders and management coaches, who scored well on their EQ competencies, tend to produce better performing individuals, which may suggest that the emotional competencies of the sport coach may produce similar impact on the performance of his athletes Quality of the coach-athlete relationship has a long term impact on the athlete’s sports performance Athlete's ability to manage his emotions at the time of the competition seems to have an impact his sports performance at that event.

What Have I Found Out So Far It suggests that coaches may need to process high emotional quotient competencies to enact the needed emotions according to the demands of the situation. It is interesting to know the driving emotional competencies for each sporting situation that the coach should be aware of Its findings strongly suggest that ‘without first establishing respect, esteem and love, the coach and athlete working relationship is at a dead-end. These three key components, which are the defining elements of closeness, have strong emotional connotations, and I have a keen interest in establishing the emotional quotient competencies driving this construct in the coach-athlete relationship Addresses how emotions could be instrumented by the coach just before a competition to enhance the athlete’s performance Expounds on the impact of the emotional dynamics between the athlete and his coach on the tone of their relationship Vargas-Tonsing T. M. & Guan J. M. (2007) Athletes’ Preferences for Informational and Emotional Pre-Game Speech Content. International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching, 2(2), pp. 171-180. Trzaskoma-Bicsérdy G., Bognár J., Révész L., & Géczi G. (2001) The Coach-Athlete Relationship in Successful Hungarian Individual Sports. International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching, 2(4), pp. 485.

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