Wales Lacrosse

Wales Lacrosse

Customer Story

Wales Lacrosse (WLA) is the national governing body for grass roots and elite level Lacrosse in Wales. They support the development of lacrosse at all levels within Wales and for those of Welsh heritage.

5

Wheels

1

Setting

100

Users

What were you looking for? What challenges did you hope to overcome?

We were looking for a consistent and progressive way of delivering feedback that was player led. One of our challenges was inconsistency of feedback depending on who was making the assessment. We needed a way of driving the correct content to the correct groups.

Why did you choose The Development Wheel?

The Development Wheel was recommended to us by a colleague in elite sports who has a similar outlook to us.

The Development Wheel has been instrumental as a conversation starter which helps our younger players get used to thinking and talking about their strengths and weaknesses, setting goals, and continually checking in to see how they are doing.

How have you implemented The Development Wheel to achieve your goals?

The Development Wheel has been instrumental as a conversation starter which helps our younger players get used to thinking and talking about their strengths and weaknesses, setting goals, and continually checking in to see how they are doing. It fulfils our policy of helping players to be in control of their own destiny and progressing at a pace that is suitable to them.

What impact has using The Development Wheel had at your organisation?

As staff and coaches, we are better at thinking about the detail of what we want to see in players and how to support them to improve. Our players have a clear visual tool to see where they are going and can plot their own journey towards their goals.

Would you recommend The Development Wheel to others?

Yes, the exercise of putting together a Wheel forces some very deep thinking about what you are trying to achieve as an organisation and how you can best support your players/students to achieve their goals. That alone is enough to make it worthwhile; however, the conversations and the improvement in our players ability to self-reflect effectively and to goal-set is exceptional.

The Development Wheel is the heart of how we establish what we coach to our players. We are still discovering new benefits as to how we use it as a cohort, and we are looking at how we might progress it to our senior programme. It means we know we are all delivering content at the right pace for our groups and that the players within each level know where they are aiming for in order to move groups..

Maggie Hughes, Director of Performance, Wales Lacrosse