Engage (Digital Download)

When it comes to sport parents can either be your biggest ally or greatest obstacle, often with no middle ground. They can either spark or spoil the development process, depending on how we as coaches educate them, engage them and collaborate with them.

Parents have the ultimate influence over their children and it is up to us to find ways as coaches to channel this in the most positive way for the child playing sport.

This pocketbook guide discusses the issues, and gives you some helpful tips and strategies that you can use on a regular basis to ensure your relationship with parents is a winning one.

Please also be sure to check out our ‘Members Area.’

Here you will find extensive support for sporting organisations, coaches and parents supporting everyone to work together to create the best possible sporting experiences for young people.

Coaches Corner provides resources and ideas for coaches on how to work effectively and in partnership with parents, whilst also supplementing our coaches books, ‘Engage’ and ‘Two Hats.’

The Parent Zone includes exclusive content created by the team at WWPIS as well as regular guest items from leading practitioners around the world.

There are exclusive video’s in ‘The Expert View’ and ‘Meet the Parents’ series and a section called ‘Dad – it doesn’t help!’ written by Australian author Mark Maguire.

This supplements our best selling books for parents, ‘Sports Performance Parenting’ and ‘Great Sports Parenting.’

The ‘Holistic Development’ area provides specialised information on a variety of topics from leading practitioners in their field, completing a 360 degree guide for parents to help provide the best levels of support for their sporting children.

This area is headed by Maimee Titmuss Morris (UK Sports Institute Performance Lifestyle Coach and well-being lead for the World Class Programme with British Gymnastics) and Jane Holden (UK Sports Institute Lifestyle coach and pathway well-being consultant / mental health instructor for TASS).

A lot of this material has never been made available to parents and coaches before unless they are playing at elite level or playing professionally in the world of sport.