ABSTRACT
To optimally utilise the opportunities of the ecosystem approach will require a different way of thinking and acting and a different skill set from the traditional approach to strength and conditioning. This chapter looks at the skills and knowledge required to coach effectively using the lens of the five minds approach. This framework argues that no profession, let alone one as complex as coaching, can ever be mastered from one discipline alone. Instead it requires skills across the five minds of functioning. Coaches with effective skills across all five minds will be better equipped to function effectively in any ecosystem they work in.
