Coaching Practiced

2 PEAK: A model for use within performance coaching

Garret O’Moore

Abstract

This paper introduces ‘PEAK’, a model suitable for use within performance coaching. PEAK is an acronym formed from the four interacting domains that are considered to underpin performance: Purpose, Engagement, Ability, and Know-how. The aim is to present an overview of the model and the theory that underpins it as well as providing a brief example of the model in practise.

Keywords

PEAK; performance coaching; coaching model.

Over the years a number of general purpose coaching models have been developed (see Grant, 2011, p.120, and Edgerton & Palmer, 2005, p.21, for useful overviews), to aid practitioners working across a range of coaching topics. With the London 2012 Olympic Games fast approaching it seemed fitting to introduce ‘PEAK’, a model developed for performance coaching. The paper will provide a brief overview of what is meant by performance. It will then seek to outline the model and theory that underpins it before illustrating it in practise with a coaching example.

Over the years a number of general purpose coaching models have been developed (see Grant, 2011, p.120, and Edgerton & Palmer, 2005, p.21, for useful overviews), to aid practitioners working across a range of coaching topics. With the London 2012 Olympic Games fast approaching it seemed fitting to introduce ‘PEAK’, a model developed for performance coaching. The paper will provide a brief overview of what is meant by performance. ...