Competency |
Selectioin | Select practitioners with the ‘capacity to deliver’—knowledge, skills, qualifications and personal qualities—the evidence-based intervention (EBI) | Include willingness and potential capacity to deliver the EBI as a coaching pre-requisite | Provide clubs with guidelines and training on effective coach selection and recruitment processes, including EBI-specific component |
Training | Ensure practitioners know when, where, how and with whom to use the EBI | Require coaches to attend EBI delivery training | Integrate EBI delivery training into mandatory coaching accreditation processes |
Coaching | Ensure practitioners can actually deliver the EBI to target audience in the real-world context | Appoint an EBI champion to mentor all other coaches | Include ‘follow-up/observation’ into mandatory coach accreditation processes |
Perfomance assessment | Measure actual EBI delivery performance of practitioners | Have EBI ‘champion’ regularly conduct EBI delivery audit and feedback for all coaches | Integrate EBI delivery assessment into mandatory coach re-accreditation process |
Organisational |
Systems interventions | Align external systems (funding, political agendas, community expectations, media, etc) to support EBI implementation | Review (eg, through pre, mid and end of season key stakeholder surveys) and up-date regularly their EBI-related external systems and processes | Review (eg, through pre, mid and end of season key stakeholder surveys) and up-date regularly their EBI-related external systems and processes |
Facilitative administration | Remove organisational barriers to EBI implementation (e.g, culture, structures, processes, procedures and resource allocation) | Review (eg, through pre, mid and end of season coach and player interviews) and update regularly their EBI-related systems and processes | Review (eg, through pre, mid and end of season club and coach interviews) and up-date regularly their EBI-related systems and processes |
Decision support data systems | Facilitate continuous quality improvement by gathering and using EBI implementation process and impact data | Feedback to coaches and players on EBI-related processes (eg, % players participating) and outcomes (eg, injury surveillance and games missed through injury data) | Feedback to clubs and coaches on EBI-related implementation and effectiveness at league level (eg, % coaches delivering the EBI and relationship between EBI delivery and team performance) |
Leadership |
Technical | Provide operational leadership necessary to implement the EBI once parameters are defined (eg, planning, organisation and procedures) | Review operational (eg, football department, coaches, senior player and club operational plan) leadership of EBI implementation | Review operational (eg, league administration, regional development officer and league operational plan) leadership of EBI implementation |
Adaptive | Provide strategic or managerial leadership for EBI implementation (eg, culture, vision, policies and resource allocation) | Review strategic (e.g, club committee and club strategic plan) leadership of EBI implementation | Review strategic (eg, league board and league strategic plan) and up-date regularly their EBI-related systems and processes |