Sporting Parents - The Performance Partnership

An important aspect of being a coach is learning how to build an effective relationship with sporting parents.
In the "old-days" coaches would try to isolate and remove parents from their coaching environment.
Now it is important to see parents as essential members of the "team": as key members of the "performance-partnership" - a partnership where the coach, the athlete and the parent work collaboratively together to help the athlete realise their potential.