Coach Profile
Basic Assessment
A complete, evidence-based coaching profile across 10 competency domains. Know exactly where you stand, what your strengths are, and where to focus your development — backed by 6 theoretical frameworks with a peer benchmark and a 12-month development plan.
What You Get
Everything in the Basic report
Full 100-question coaching assessment (50 slider + 50 multiple choice)
Personalised domain score across all 10 competency areas
Competency radar chart showing your coaching shape
Peer comparison benchmark against coaching averages
Top 3 strengths and top 3 development areas, with narrative commentary
Cluster overview across all 5 competency clusters
Evidence-based 12-month development plan with specific, measurable actions
Alignment to 6 key theoretical frameworks mapped to your profile
Downloadable 11-page Basic Assessment Report (PDF)
Instant access — report generated in under 60 seconds
Your Level
Where do you sit on the competency scale?
Your overall score and domain scores are each mapped to one of five competency tiers, giving you an honest, calibrated picture of your current level — and a clear target for progression.
The Assessment
10 coaching competency domains
Every question is assigned to one of ten domains. Your report shows your score in each, so you can see not just your overall level — but exactly which areas are driving your strengths and where the development opportunities lie.
Reflective Practice
Assesses your ability to critically analyse your coaching sessions, identify patterns in your performance, and use structured reflection to drive improvement. Questions probe the depth and regularity of your self-review process.
Session Design
Evaluates how you plan, structure and adapt training sessions — from learning objectives and activity sequencing to differentiation for different ability levels and your use of constraints-led approaches.
Communication
Explores the clarity, tone and effectiveness of how you deliver information to players, parents and colleagues. Includes questioning technique, active listening, and your ability to adapt communication style to different audiences.
Feedback & Questioning
Measures the quality, timing and specificity of the feedback you give players, and your use of open questioning to develop player thinking. Based on established feedback models including the Sandwich Model and Socratic questioning.
Game Understanding
Tests the depth of your tactical and technical knowledge — how well you understand the game, recognise patterns of play, diagnose problems in real time, and translate game understanding into coaching interventions.
Leadership
Examines your approach to leading individuals and groups, managing conflict, building psychological safety, and inspiring performance. Draws on both transactional and transformational leadership frameworks.
Player Wellbeing
Assesses your awareness of and response to the physical, psychological and social needs of your players. Explores safeguarding awareness, mental health literacy, and your role in creating environments where players feel safe and valued.
Holistic Player Development
Measures how well you develop the whole person — not just the footballer. Covers life skills, character, resilience, and the extent to which your sessions intentionally build attributes beyond the technical and tactical.
CPD
Evaluates your commitment to your own professional growth — how actively you seek learning, engage with new research and ideas, observe other coaches, and translate new knowledge into changed practice.
Coaching Philosophy
Examines the clarity and coherence of your underlying coaching beliefs — whether you have an articulated philosophy, how consistently it drives your decisions, and whether your practice reflects your stated values.
The Science
6 theoretical frameworks, built in
This is not a generic quiz. Every question, scoring band and report narrative is grounded in established coaching and sports science literature. The Basic report maps your results against six foundational frameworks — giving your feedback academic rigour and practical relevance.
Gibbs' Reflective Cycle
The foundational model for structured reflection in professional practice. Gibbs' six-stage cycle — Description, Feelings, Evaluation, Analysis, Conclusion, Action Plan — underpins the Reflective Practice domain and informs how the report generates your development actions.
Self-Determination Theory
SDT identifies three core psychological needs — Autonomy, Competence and Relatedness — that drive intrinsic motivation in athletes. This framework underpins the Player Wellbeing domain, assessing how well your coaching environment supports players' psychological needs.
GROW Model
A coaching conversation framework built around four stages: Goal, Reality, Options, and Will. The GROW Model underpins the Feedback & Questioning domain, assessing how effectively you structure development conversations with your players.
Bloom's Taxonomy
A hierarchy of learning objectives — from recall and comprehension through to analysis, synthesis and creation — that informs the Session Design domain. The assessment evaluates whether your sessions are designed to stretch players' thinking, not just their technique.
Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU)
TGfU places the game at the centre of player learning, using modified games to develop tactical intelligence ahead of isolated technique. This framework underpins the Game Understanding domain, measuring how game-centred your coaching approach is.
Ecological Dynamics
A constraints-led approach where player development emerges from the interaction of the individual, the task, and the environment. Ecological Dynamics underpins Holistic Player Development, assessing the quality and intentionality of the learning environments you create.
Who It's For
Built for coaches who take their development seriously
The Basic package is designed for coaches at any stage of their journey who want honest, evidence-based insight into their current practice — and a clear, actionable starting point for growth.
Grassroots & Club Coaches
Whether you're coaching U7s on a Saturday morning or leading a Saturday development centre, the Basic assessment gives you a professional-grade profile you can use to guide your CPD and make a case for your competence.
Coaches Seeking Qualifications
Preparing for your UEFA C, FA Level 2 or equivalent? The Basic report helps you identify the competency gaps that matter most before you enter the formal assessment process.
Coaches Returning to the Pitch
Been out of coaching for a while? The Basic assessment is an honest starting point — helping you recalibrate your skills, identify where you've drifted, and prioritise your reintroduction to practice.
About This Assessment
Developed by a Coach, for Coaches
Coach Profile has been designed by Laurie Griffin, Director of Coach Development at Premier Development Academy, with nearly 20 years of experience working in professional football. Laurie is currently studying a PhD in Professional Sport, specialising in Reflective Practice in Coaching. Every question, domain and framework in this assessment draws on established coaching science — translated into practical, football-specific language that coaches actually recognise from their own practice.
This is not a generic questionnaire. It is a professional profiling tool built to give you the kind of honest, evidence-based insight that most coaches never receive — whether from their club, their assessors, or their own self-review.
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