Introduction The concept of a coach is nothing new in a culture that celebrates sporting events and athletes with religious fervor. In order for sports teams and individual athletes to compete at a high level and to obtain great success, there must be an individual with the ability to bring out the best in the athlete and forge a comprehensive unit that is composed of other like-minded athletes; that individual is referred to as “coach.” Coaching, however, is not just for the realm of sports, but has a place within any organization that seeks to draw out the best qualities in others in order to attain a shared goal. Coaching seeks to partner with an individual to release potential that has been buried, so that the individual may aspire …show more content…
That individual is rewarded after the victory with a five gallon Gatorade bath; at which time, the coach is hurled onto the shoulders of his team and carried off the field in triumph. In the same way, coaching within an organization is very similar to that in the sporting world. Darryl Cross (2016) asserts that coaching is “a partnership—one in which both sides work to reach an agreed-upon destination” (p.1). In other words, coaching is a mutual understanding where both sides come together for a shared goal. In addition, Paul Stanley and Robert Clinton (1992) argue, “Coaching is a relational process in which a mentor, who know how to do something well, imparts those skills to a mentoree who wants to learn them” (p. 79). The basis of Stanley and Clinton’s argument is that the coaching process is centered around a mutual relationship where the coach seeks to give information and knowledge to someone who wants to receive that information and knowledge. The impartation of that information and knowledge, which leads to high performance is the act of …show more content…
Furthermore, “the most important attribute of any coach is that they want to help the person or people they are coaching to learn” (Skill You Need, 2016, para. 2). In other words, a good coach will have a great desire to see individuals learn and grow in the knowledge that is imparted. Marshall Cook and Laura Poole (2011) argue, “A good coach is positive, enthusiastic, trusting, focused, sees the big picture, and is observant, respectful, patient, clear, curious, and objective” (p. 19). The basis of Cook and Poole’s argument is that a good coach must display a wide range of characteristics in order to effectively unleash the hidden potential within an individual. In addition, a good coach identifies the shared goal, encourage the individual to explore the hidden potential within, obtain solutions mutually with the individual, and will hold the team member
Coaching is an integral part of helping achieve one’s maximum abilities. Dr. Gawande (2013) explains that, “Coaches are not teachers, but they teach. They’re not your boss—in professional tennis, golf, and skating, the athlete hires and fires the coach—but they can be bossy” (p. 3). It is difficult to say what is the exact function of a coach, however, they help bring forth another point of view different from our own and they also help bring about the right mindset in order to subdue a weakness.
This constitutes the single largest barrier to successful coaching. Common barriers to
As I have asserted, coaching is far more than winning or losing. A coach is an essential cog in shaping qualities such as sportsmanship, competitiveness, self discipline, and work ethic. A quality coach can build a player up while a bad coach can tear them down. My goal as a coach was to always leave the player striving to be the best they could be. A good coach
However, this is not really a direct correlation to the coach’s effectiveness in a particular sport, being that there are many other factors in coaching a team other than game records. The coach’s job is to enhance the athlete physically, socially, and psychologically, winning is only considered a by-product of that job (Gillham, Burton, & Gillham, 2013). Gillham, Burton, and Gillham (2013) focused on developing a Coaching Success Questionnaire-2 to allow a means of evaluating other aspects of a coach’s interaction with their athletes as both a research and coach development tool. A sample group of athletes at the varsity and club level ranging from ages 18 to 25 was used to develop the questionnaire by asking their perceptions of their coaches.
A proper coaching philosophy contains principles which improve character development, teach step by step tactical and technical skills, form proper progressive physical training regimens, and carefully utilize team management to handle and control problems with administrative issues. A coach with a sound philosophy should mold a team with strong cohesion, and he should treat players not only as teammates, but as family and friends who are encouraged to develop communication and lifelong learning of skills through positive support and role modeling from the coach (Mergelsberg, 14-15). The philosophy should also contain written documents of implemented strategies and techniques, so that the coach will know what to improve upon season by season
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Coaching, however challenging, is a great way to influence the lives of others while also building their character. For as long as there have been sports, there have been people teaching the sport to the players and making them better at it. Coaches must have certain qualities in order to obtain success. One must also look at a coach’s motivation for his job, his passion for what he does, his methods for coaching, and how he became a coach in order to fully understand him. There are many questions someone may want to ask a coach about his profession if they are interested in coaching. Some questions would include: Why did he choose this as a profession? How did he get into coaching? What does one have to do to get a job as a coach? How does a coach become successful? I aim to answer all of these questions and more in my paper.
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In today’s society being a coach can be extremely complicated especially compared to earlier years. Coaching requires not only many technical and personal skills but also has to include positive psychology that will affect all athletes regardless of gender, age, and race. After reading various articles this leads me to the question, what is a coach? How do coaches differ from one another? In addition are we forgetting the importance of not only coaching but the sports psychology aspect of coaching overall? Regardless of what you may have read or heard I believe not only do all coaches have their own coaching style but every coaching technique and style is different. Coaching styles and positive psychology are two techniques that can provide
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“People are remarkably bad at remembering long lists of goals. One may have learned this at a professional level when trying to get my high-performance coaching clients to stay on track; the longer their lists of to-dos and goals, the more overwhelmed and off-track they got. Clarity comes with simplicity.” As a child he always looked at being able to play or coach a sport at the professional level. For the reason of me just loving the game of Basketball. Also i know it will make an impact on lives because people look up to you and the money in make will give back to communities and change lives around you. The career of a Professional Coach is a challenging and fun career,because of the level of competition and it’s a dream job. The research will describe the career of
Legendary coach John Wooden once said “A coach must never forget that he is a leader and not merely a person with authority”. This, I believe is a very important part of coaching, because as a coach you are looked not only as an authority figure but as a role model. I would not be the athlete or person that I am today, if it were not for the role models and coaches that pushed me to be the best that I could be. They were people that I was able to look up to athletically as well as people I knew I could trust. Having a good coaching philosophy is also a large part of being a respectable coach. A coaching philosophy is a set of values and beliefs that a coach develops to help covey his coaching style.
Coaches have a massive impact on the development of their athletes because it is a long and complex process. To make athletes successful, coaches have to use a range of learning and teaching theories (Jones, Hughes and Kingston, 2008). In my own practice, I am trying to use various coaching styles such as autocratic, democratic and laissez-faire which was identified by Lewin and his colleagues in 1939. The autocratic coaching style takes an authoritative approach, where the coach is telling everything rather than asking. Coaches show for athletes how they want something to be done and how they have to perform.
Coaches who put their team and players first, are coaches who value each and every one as a person (Yanity, 2011). A good coach will teach life skills along with developing each player’s athletic talent (Yanity, 2011). With athletic participation at an all-time high, coaches have become an important element in the education of student-athletes (Yanity, 2011). It is important for coaches to have moral and ethical behavior in all phases of their lives as young men and women look to these role models for guidance.