Theoretical Aspects Of Coaching

Sports management is a really broad field, therefore I decided to focus on my minor and one of my major interests of this field: coaching. In this paper I will be explaining my personal five building blocks that make up a well-rounded coaching philosophy and coach. Those blocks are; leadership, organization, attitude, respect, and resiliency. Each of these five aspects are equally important and balance each other out. Leadership, the action of leading a group of athletes towards a goal. Organization, being able to organize a team and have a plan in order to help the team achieve goals. Attitude, it is very important for a coach to have a winning and positive attitude that is contagious to the players. Respect, there has to be a good

At their finest, coaches perfect their player’s flaws to push them to their potential ability, improve their skills, and create determination within the team. They can expand the importance of such a sport to intensify motivation and the value of good sportsmanship for the sake of not only their reputation, but the outcome that comes from it. Coaches must not lag when it comes to hardships that comes about; they must stay connected. The closer the connection between a player and a coach the better they are moving forward and continuing on the love of the sport and job.

* Coaching This is a process that supports and enables an individual to unlock and maximise their own potential, to develop and improve performance. Coaching helps the individual to learn rather than be taught. Coaching believes the individual is best to take responsibility for own actions and solutions with subtle guidance and prompts. This is an excellent way of improving performance through reflection. Enabling control and development to remain with the individual with the coach helping to unlock own potential. The ‘GROW’ model of coaching (Whitmore, 2009) provides a structured model for the coach. G= Goal setting asks questions to encourage the

Research proved that athletes found their coaches training as well as instruction behavior and their style of coaching did have an impact on individual performance. This was important research for me in understanding how those I coach perceive my leadership and whether or not I am effective as their leader. My teams’ outstanding performance or lack of performance can be a direct link to my type of leadership skills in addition to my training. The primary role of any coach or athletic leader is to help their athletes and improve on their individual performance. “Several sport studies exploring the coach-athlete relationship claim that effective coaching includes basic ingredients such as empathic understanding, honesty, support, liking, acceptance, friendliness, cooperation, caring and respect” (Moen, Hoigaard, & Peters, 2014, p. 76). The challenge for me is finding the balance between being supportive and meeting the individual needs of team members while also enhancing their ability and understanding of the sport. Understanding how to lead and coach various personalities within the team is essential to the team’s

This essay hopes to discuss the importance of coaching by analyzing the views of Doctor Gawande. Doctor Gawande is one of the highly educated professionals who decided that he needs help to come up with a solution to challenges he comes across. Doctor Gawande believes that only a few individuals can give their best performances without the help of others regardless of their level of training. In addition to this, Doctor Gawande decided that he wants coaching because he is expected to reach certain goals. He believes that by reaching his goals he will be able to get into the habit of accomplishing personal, organizational, or team goals.

During practice there were several behaviors analyzed that served to find if the coach was using the correct strategies to improve the performance of the players. First, the coach began practice by informing the team that someone will be taking video of their practice to analyze areas of improvement. Additionally, he required every player to record themselves practice at home and email those recordings to him, so that each player could be evaluated individually. Later, he gave the team general technical instructions on what the session for the day would consist of and soon every player began to take their assigned positions for practice. During practice, the most frequent behaviors consisted of specific positive reinforcement (41%), general technical instructions (22%), and general positive reinforcement (22%). Regarding specific positive reinforcement, the coach would mention the name of the player and the area that he was performing well on. For instance, he would say “Alex, great job on communication!” or “Liam, awesome job on recovering the ball!” This way the players had a clear idea of the areas that they were doing well on rather than just hearing “good job!” I also observed that when the players would receive appraisal their energy increased and as a result they became more engaged in practice. The players who did not receive as much appraisal seemed frustrated and confused throughout practice and as such their performance suddenly decreased. Although, general positive reinforcement

Athletes need an intrinsic motivation, an enjoyment for the game and what they are doing in order to succeed, and an ownership of their sports experience. The goals that they are pursuing should belong to them. (The Bare Essentials 1). Adding to those essentials, there are ten keys that an athlete should do to help them succeed. Having a positive mindset, a few set goals, weight training, a beneficial diet, water, rest, cardiovascular training, progress tracking, cross training, and an open mind. (10 Keys to Success 1). These tips have proven to be quite successful, and coaching was not mentioned once. An athlete can be successful without coaching from other

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According to Forbes magazine, personal coaching alone is a booming industry worth over $1 billion.(Stahl, 2016)The problem is At present the coaching industry is unregulated and there are thousands of people operating as coaches who have not received training.(O’Donovan, 2016) but what is a coach and what are they trying to achieve? The most common perception is that of a sports coach blowing his whistle on the athletics field. Although many have heard of an executive or life/personal coach, few have any real inkling of what one actually is. The confusion around coaching is not a new phenomenon, 20 years ago, Whitmore held the view that “Coaching is in danger of being misrepresented, Miss perceived, and dismissed as not so new and different and failing to live up to its promises.”(Whitmore, 1996). while the actual coaching process may be shrouded in mystery, it seems of critical importance to be able to clearly Explain what result a coach is trying to achieve when working with a client, differentiate coaching from other disciplines such as mentoring, training, counselling or consulting. We must also find out What are the unique qualities or skills that We when you’re ready coach uses are and how we can measure coaches competence in using these qualities or skills. The following essay will attempt to describe the purpose of coaching both personal and business, compare and contrast coaching with psychotherapy,

The duty to instruct properly contains instructing athletes concerning moves that are unsafe and unsportsmanlike, are against the rules, and are used to possibly injure an opponent. In coaching, don’t send a player to the mound and tell the player to look at the ball and hit a home run. Coaches must practice with players on techniques and videos to insure the player know what they are to be looking for. To achieve these goals, set up a progressive series of practices. The component of progression includes the ability of the coach to instruct each skill level using a progression that moves from simple to complex. Throughout the planning process, coaches should be studying successful lead-up techniques that can be used for their sport and adjusting them, if need be, to meet the needs of individual athletes.

The coach tirelessly pursues personal education, formally and informally, both in the performance related sciences and in liberal arts. He sees the journey to coaching excellence as a never ending story; seen not only in terms of a chosen sport and coaching theory and practice, but in understanding how to successfully live a balanced and full life, while facing tougher and tougher challenges in the chosen field of endeavour.

When I am a coach, I want to help my athlete reach his/her’s dream, but also, I want to teach them valuable life lessons that they can use after they are done playing their sport. I want to base my coaching techniques from the idea of humanism, which is concerned with human worth, human development, and self-determination (pg. 260). I want my athlete to have a positive self-worth, grow to be a better athlete and human being every day, and have the mind set they can do anything they set their mind to.

As a young group of girls invested in a healthy lifestyle and participating in sport, there is no doubt that each of us have come across many coaches, both good and bad, in our time of playing sport. After conducting my own training session with a group of Year 5 students from St Martins, it has made me aware of the responsibility that a coach has on the future participation of such young children. Such an experience has opened my eyes to all those who have coached me across my years of participating in sport and the influence their actions have had on me, specifically through their use of feedback.

Throughout module four we have learned about different methods of teaching, coaching and overall assessing the end product which is our student athletes. We have focused on teaching our student athletes how and why they need to conduct themselves as a professional in the classroom and on the field of play. I have learned there is no one set standard of teaching student athletes, we as teachers and coaches need to adapt to our student athletes learning to ensure they are learning and processing the new information. Lastly, we as facilitators have to understand how we learn some we may master the knowledge that we are going to teach or student athletes. I will discuss my preferred learning style, was able to use my preferred learning style while

Their have been many developments in sport and coaching science (CS) over the last few years. Davies et al (1965) have suggested that the developmetns made are, in the field of sports science, mainly related to the changes in technologies. Smith and Wesson (2006) have indicated that, though changes in coaching science are not as easy to pinpoint the cause, changes in practice are most likely to be as a result of changes in the approach of many coaches to develop a more athlete centred approach. It has also been suggested that the development of media technologies has led to changes in practice. In this essay, I will identify the issues which have led to changes in these sciences, and weather they have been good or bad. I will then go on to