Talent Development: A Practitioner and Parents Guide

The text shows ‘how-to’ implement theory to practice for coaches and parents and bridges this theory-practice divide with an emphasis on providing evidence-based guidance and exemplars of best practice to key stakeholders in talent development. The book moves beyond a theoretical basis and will present a critical consideration, through the contribution of the practitioner perspective within each section, of how coaches, parents, and National Governing Bodies have implemented an evidence base to improve their practice in Talent Development. This text presents a number of topics and issues presented from a multi-disciplinary perspective The authors and invited contributors are all experienced researchers but also, and importantly, practitioners in talent development. Allowing a strong, evidence based and pragmatic links to be made throughout the text that enable the reader to understand how to implement these principles in their own talent development environments.