Edvard Kolar ^1* Roberto Biloslavo ¹ Rado Pišot ² Saša Veličković ³ Matej Maksimiljan Tusak ⁴

• ¹ Science and Research Centre Koper, Institute for Behaviour Economic, Koper, Slovenia
• ² Institute for Kinesiology Research, Scientific Research Center Koper, Koper, Slovenia
• ³ Faculty of Sport and Physical Education, University of Nis, Nis, Serbia
• ⁴ Faculty of Sports, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Introduction: Coach's managerial and pedagogical tasks in a sports training process represent the content or substantive part of his work, while the basic method of his work is decisionmaking. Some coaches' decisions are result of deep thinking based on the effort invested in finding information, analysis and long discussions and others are again quick and sudden and prompted by various situations that occur in training and competition settings and require quick reactions. Therefore, is the purpose of this study to develop a conceptual framework of coaches decision-making behaviour in conventional sports, which will establish appropriate relationships between various decisions that coaches make in a training process and different theoretical concepts related to decision-making in general and coaches' decision-making in particular.To design the research, we used the methodology of a conceptual paper and a "model paper" approach which seeks to build a theoretical framework that predicts relationships between different research concepts and scientific disciplines.Results: Conceptual framework cover the most comprehensive range of situations that can arise in the training process and possible ways of dealing with them, which should result in different types of decisions and characteristic of coaches decision-making behaviour. For a better understanding of these decision-making processes of coaches, the conceptual framework uses various sport-specific and general theories related to decision-making theories and cognitive functioning in these processes.The developed conceptual framework foresees three types of decisions (strategic, tactical and operational), which should have a different role in the comprehensive process of sports training, should be carried out on the basis of different cognitive processes, manifested in the forms of different decision-making behaviour and should be enforced by using different leadership styles. The practical value of the presented framework lies primarily in the possibility of using it in the procedures of selecting relevant experts for various decision-making situations that arise in sport training process.