Enhancing Coaches' Professional Development: A Goal Setting.

This book is aimed at following the process of educating the coaches in goal setting. Goal setting programme was designed keeping in mind the applicability in a team setting. The whole process of going through the steps in the programme and analyzing the programme's applicability and the educational process through the eyes of the coaches, is described. Educators' experiences are also reflected on. Based on the analysis, tips on improving the educational process as well as the goal setting programme itself, are shared, e.g. adjusting to coaches' learning styles, keeping it simple, providing examples, modifying the exercises etc. It is a good read for practitioners in the field of sport psychology, coaches, educators or anyone who is interested in getting to know some more about goal setting and it's applicability in sports.

She graduated from Master's Degree Programme in Sport and Exercise Psychology from University of Jyväskylä. She is working in the field as a sport psychology consultant, an educator and a coach.Elena Erkina graduated from the same Master's Degree Programme. She is currently working as a sport and travel manager in a company Active Holiday.