INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN AND SUPPORT (IDP)

Also know as Individual Athlete Performance Plans (IAPP)

For the Emerging Athlete - Knowledge is Power

Individual Development Plans (IDPs) use a four pillar approach designed to facilitate the development of the person and the emerging athlete without compromising on performance.  Having a clear plan, being prepared, practiced and the knowledge to back it up will contribute to an athletes confidence and performance.

In completing the IDP together, we will:

• Define your profile (their chase, their way and their trademarks) and get an understanding of what is driving your forward and what may be holding you back.

• Using self-assessment and coach assessments if available, evaluate key components of your the four performance pillars (technical/tactical requirements related to your sport), energy systems, athlete spirit and life balance.

• Define your action plan for a defined campaign period. This may be a transition step up or over, a selection event and/or a season, for example. Note that agreed actions may be to super-power a strength, minimise a weakness, or educate yourself in the sport business you are in.

• Accountability, monitoring and ongoing measurement and updates to your IDP.

For Other Facilitators and Sporting Organisations

If you are looking for some additional advice or assistance in development or support of your athletes using the IDP process, we have online courses available click here, or please don’t hesitate to contact me for a more personalised approach.

ATHLETE DEVELOPMENT FACILIATION AND SUPPORT

For the Emerging Athlete - Small Things Matter!

Formal and informal check-in’s and support with Dr Pip Thomas, ensuring accountability and ongoing growth and development aligned to the individuals focus areas and agreed actions. This will involve specific coaching in athletic spirit and life balance areas and/or the emerging athlete career transition, such as:

• Managing attention and arousal states - techniques such as readiness approaches, resets reframes and relaxation options that best suit your needs.

• Dealing with transition events, such as: selections processes, sitting on the bench, early exits, injuries, transfers, step-up/promotions, contracting, moving away from home.

• Relationship management (e.g. with coaches, team-mates, player agents, family) including expectation and conflict management).

• Coping with Pressure - Building physical, social and psychological fitness and performance through self-efficacy (confidence + faith + resiliency), by developing and practicing your own coping strategies. Also available short online Course Available on effects of pressure and load on performance.

For Other Facilitators and Sporting Organisations

Regardless of whether athletes are in a individual or team sport, they are operating within a team environment. This requires a delicate negotiation between individual, team and organisation. Embedding individual development practices inside a pathways or collegiate environment is not an easy task, but has its rewards. Taking on the responsibility of coaching emerging athletes, also comes with a host of pressures ourselves and often with very little recognition or reward. As facilitators we are entitled to feel valued and supported also, and we also do not know it all. Please contact me if I can be of any support to you, your team or your organisation in my speciality area; the transition of emerging athletes within professional sport pathways and environment.

PRICING

• IDP Plan: Two initial in-depth meetings, assessment and report - NZ$295+GST

• IDP Package: Plan PLUS twelve month formal and informal ongoing support and advocacy - NZ$1295.00+GST

• Individual Development Facilitation: Individual coaching and support for athletes, coaches or facilitators – 1:1 sessions $125+GST per hour

• Team and Organisational Consulting: price on application

Please do not hesitate to get in touch, if you are a committed athlete, or the parent of one, and/or price is an issue – we will endeavour to help find a solution.

* NZ GST = 15%