1. How do you get the attention of athletes before you speak? Could you do this more effectively?
2. Have someone watch one of your practice sessions and for each activity record:
   1. how long you speak for;
   2. how long you observe the activity before stopping it;
   3. in total how much time the athletes spend engaged in physical activity.

Are you surprised by what they recorded? Should you change anything?

3. Have a colleague observe your training session and provide them with a list of the teaching points that you want to emphasise for each activity (a copy of your training plan should provide this). Have your colleague record how many times you referred to those teaching points.

Are you surprised by what they recorded? Should you change anything?

4. After practice, ask your athletes what they thought were the key “teaching points” in that session. Did they recall what you intended to be the key teaching points?
5. Arrange to watch a practice conducted by another coach, in a sport that you are not particularly familiar with. Can you identify their teaching points? How do they relay them to their players?