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Learn to coach the PCS way!

By embracing the principles of PCS and becoming a 'Double Goal Coach', you can earn yourself and your club the highly respected PCS Kitemark.
 

A Double Goal Coach looks beyond the traditional scoreboard definition of winning and strives to impart life lessons onto his / her young athletes. 

Double Goal Coaches want to avoid dividing young people into ‘winners’ and ‘losers’. Research proves this is the main reason why many young people fail to learn technique in those early years and ultimately drop out of sport.
 

Instead, Double Goal Coaches aim their praise and assessment towards the effort made during practice and in competition. Our core beliefs revolve around a young athlete...

• making the maximum effort
   
• being determined to learn and improve
   
• even if it means making mistakes, recovering and progressing
   

We call this the ELM tree of‘Mastery Coaching’.
 

PCS will provide you, the coach, with a unique range of tools for use in training and competition that will enable you to coach school age children in such a way that they will learn more, try harder and stay longer in sport. What’s more, they’ll enjoy the journey.
 

PCS will challenge you to stop and think about your underlying principles.
 

Live workshops and an interactive website with video examples and supporting material will help you to learn new skills and basic techniques to communicate a positive climate at all times.

As coaches, we will teach you to:

• become a Double Goal Coach. The first goal is winning.The second, more important goal is teaching young people life lessons through sport.

• use practical tools to develop a positive coaching culture based on the principle of redefining the winner. With PCS, the coaching focus is on increased effort, learning technique and handling mistakes better – the core elements of Mastery Coaching

• develop self-esteem and self-confidence in young sports participants.

Positive Coaching Scotland: Developing young people through sport!