Strategies for coaching for life skills transfer

ABSTRACT For athletes, life skills transfer represents the vital ongoing process in their personal development whereby they internalize the skills they have learned in sport and apply them to multiple life domains. The purpose of this article is to offer coaches practical strategies that they can integrate into their coaching to explicitly promote life skills transfer beyond sport. Seven broad strategies, emanating from a synthesis of current literature, are presented alongside specific activities for coaches to help their athletes transfer life skills from sport to other life domains.