This week we welcomed Dr Phil Kearney onto The Fallowers. Phil is a lecturer at University of Limerick and course leader of the MSc in Applied Sports Coaching. Phil gave us his definition of what coaching is and what a coach is.

We discussed the characteristics of "serial winning coaches" and how these characteristics are developed over time. Phil provided us with some tools that coaches can use to develop their coaching practices and add to their coaching toolbox.

Phil also gave us an overview of how research on coaching has evolved over the years, what tools are used to measure/monitor effective coaching and what direction research on coaching is likely to go in the future.

This was a truly enjoyable episode and we will certainly have to follow up with Phil in the future to dig a bit deeper on a few episodes.