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Developing your Players Problem Solving Skills- All with Russell Earnshaw

The Magic Academy's Rusty Earnshaw returns with another outstanding Art of Coaching series.

In this series filmed at the National Coach Summit in San Francisco, Rusty presents more key practical coach leadership skills applicable for all levels of coaching to develop their players’ problem solving competencies.

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Part 1. Create the Need for Problem Solving

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Problem solving rather than building frustration.

Create an environment for your players to solve problems while playing rather than getting frustrated.

The Magic Academy’s Rusty Earnshaw is back out on the pitch, in Part 1 of his new series, with a group of players and coaches sharing ideas of how to enable the game-based problem solving at training.

You don’t know how the game is going to be played so why not replicate the uncertainty with your team at training

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Part 2. Framework for Problem Solving

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What they want and what the need may not be the same

Building a framework to develop player decision making is Rusty’s focus in part 2 of his Coach Development series.

Layering levels of complexity to modify simple games to build the capability.

Identify the skill purpose and then implement the game modification.

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