We asked the first year of Sport-Levelup’s internationally accredited Sport Coach training about their experiences. Our students included coaches, trainers, elite athletes, and parents raising children who are athletes. In our series of interviews, you can get to know our graduates, first of all business, life and sports coach Tamás Barna.
“I am enthusiastically building my coaching business, and I also work full-time at an automotive manufacturing company. In addition, I have a father’s hat and I also work as an amateur runner. I met coaching on my journey of self-discovery and fell in love with it very quickly.
My creed: As a partner, I will accompany you on your journey, we will find your resources together and you will apply your own solutions to achieve your goals.”
Why did you choose Sport-Levelup Sport Coach training?
After obtaining the business coach certificate, I definitely planned to extend what I learned to the groups as well. I was looking for suitable training for just this, when I came across the advertisement of Sport-Levelup. Since sports coaching connects two important areas of my life: sports and youth, and after it turned out that the practice was designed for sports teams, the question was settled.
You started studying to be a sports coach as a qualified business coach. How did your coach identity change (if it did) during the training?
According to my expectations – by reaching two teams, with two different pairs – I was able to apply what I had learned in working with teams, including pair group management.
Tell us about a defining experience of your training!
I brought something important with me to almost every training session, but now I would like to highlight the tool called “Hot seat”, during which the participants give positive feedback to one of the group members. In addition to the fact that it is an incredibly good feeling to hear what – to me “invisible” – qualities my peers see in me, I did not think that I would be able to notice so much strength in my peers and how uplifting it is to say this to the other person.
What was the biggest challenge for you during the training, which you successfully solved?
Definitely the pair group management. It was very difficult to find a balance with my partners, but at the same time I gained enormous experience through it.
What did you become more of through the training?
I learned a lot about myself from the feedback I received from my peers and from Réka Sárdi-Papp during mentor coaching – I am infinitely grateful for it.
How do you apply/will you apply what you learned here?
The tools and experiences learned here during the group coaching came in very handy. I can also undertake cooperation with children much more courageously. In addition, what I have learned adds a lot to my workplace functioning.
To whom would you recommend Sport-Levelup Sport coach training?
The very mixed composition of our own group and their feedback tell me that coaches who want further training, athletes who want to motivate themselves or plan to retire, parents raising athletes, and coaches who also pay attention to the mental side can all benefit from the training.
>Anything else you would like to say:
The training of the trainers, the practical orientation of the training and the influence of the group members on each other are huge extras – I would come again anytime 🙂
