Accidentally managing a youth club, and everything else I wish I'd known about RDA coaching before I got totally hooked on it
Presenting Endeavour awards to one of our classes at Aim RDA I wrote a blog post four years ago: "Ten things nobody told me about becoming a coach" . I still agree with all ten points, especially one, four, five, and ten. Four years, hundreds of RDA sessions and a whole new group later, the topic has come round again: in my own thoughts ( even in my last post ), and in light-hearted conversation with my peers. I'm not saying I was wrong in 2021: I'm just saying there are gaps. These are the gaps - some of them a bit strange - that I really wish someone had filled for me before I became truly bedded into the good, bad, and brazenly random of RDA coaching. I'm going to start bold, with point 9 of my 2021 post: "it will make you a better person". Still agree. The most useful part of this not-given advice? It will make you a better person, but you might actually need to practice being selfish again from time to time . This is about boundaries: may you use t...
