WORDS KATIE LANE
The Institute for Rowing Leadership based at the CRI boathouse in Boston, USA offers the only fully accredited, one year coaching education program in rowing. Katie Lane graduated in the inaugural class of 2012.
Who are you as a coach?” A difficult question for anyone — it was posed to me in my first assignment at the Institute for Rowing Leadership (IRL) in 2011. I had begun coaching only a few months before and struggled to come up with an answer. Eventually I came to two words – effective communication. These two words laid the foundation of my coaching philosophy: an individual cannot force another individual to change, but rather they can provide the necessary resources needed to improve.