NCCP

About Coaching
Sport plays an important role in the lives of many Canadians. Quality coaching is key to a positive sport experience for participants. Sport, government, and business leaders recommend that all coaches become trained and certified in the National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP) to ensure that the sport experience of every participant is a good one.

The ( NCCP) is a collaborative program of the Government of Canada, the provincial/territorial governments, the national/provincial/territorial sport federations, and the Coaching Association of Canada.

What is the NCCP?
The NCCP is a training and certification program for coaches, offered across Canada in more than 60 sports. The program was designed to meet the needs of a wide range of coaches - from those who introduce youngsters to sport to those who work with Canada's high performance athletes.

Since its inception, more than 875,000 coaches have taken part in NCCP activities that have helped them to develop the skills, knowledge, and attitudes required to coach effectively.

The NCCP prepares lawn bowling coaches to:

• better meet the needs of all participants in the sport
• provide a positive sport experience to participants
• provide opportunities for participants to achieve their full potential in and through lawn bowls.

The NCCP is currently undergoing a transition to a competency-based approach, in which a coach is trained and may achieve certification to coach a specific type of participant in a particular coaching environment.

The design of the new NCCP reflects the different types of coaches ("coaching streams") in the Canadian sport system and the specific environments ("coaching contexts") they work in. It is up to each sport to determine which streams and contexts apply to its coach development system. The abilities deemed important to coach in a given context determine the scope of training required. The new NCCP structure incorporates:

• Coaching Streams
• Community Sport Competition Instruction
• Coaching Contexts Initiation Introduction Beginners
• Ongoing Participation Development Intermediate Performers
• High Performance Advanced Performers
• How coaches achieve certification

The new NCCP makes a distinction between coach training and coach certification. Coaches who need training will have opportunities to acquire or refine the skills, knowledge, and attitudes deemed important to coach effectively in a particular context. Coaches who want to be certified will be required to demonstrate their ability to achieve the requirements identified for their coaching context in areas such as program design, practice planning, performance analysis, program management, ethical coaching, support to participants during training, and support to participants in competition.