Getting To Know Your Referee

Most of us, on most weekends, coach referees who we have seen before, know or have at least some background knowledge of. However, that is not always the case. One of the key areas of successful coaching is based around knowing your athlete. As we move towards our NSW...

Hope and Its Impact

Hope is a lofty concept – a bit elusive and hard to measure. It is something nice to aspire to and enjoy but not something to think about all that much perhaps. There is too much to do in the present to hope about the future so we just get on with it. Well it...

Listening Skills

Listening is the ability to accurately receive and interpret messages in the communication process. This is vital for referee coaches as they work with their referees. Listening is key to all effective communication. Without the ability to listen effectively, messages...

What Is Coaching

The graphic above is meant to be a discussion starter for you, and to get you, as our coaches/mentors and senior referees thinking about your personal approach to coaching and mentoring of referees. Knowing that we coach referees from a large cross section of ability...

Communication – Whistle

The whistle is the most important communicating tool for a referee. Believe it or not, but both the players and spectators may assess a referee by how the whistle is used. The whistle should be made to ‘talk’ to signal the different infringements, etc. USEFUL HINTS...