What Makes A Coach Successful?

Coaches need to have certain skills and knowledge to undertake the role. In my opinion a coach needs to be patient, supportive, interested, aware of others as well as self, attentive and perceptive. Such elements underpin effective coaching and a genuine interest in the person being coached.

Sports coaches have to have a passion for that sport they’re coaching and the ability to communicate with everyone. It’s the coach's job to provide the training and exercises to help an athlete perform. Coaches’ work at all levels of sports and they work with lots of different people for example they may work at a middle school level, community level, or even the professional level in all different sports. To help athletes up their game, coaches have to build drills and conduct exercises. Using their knowledge in that sport, they can teach athletes to use the proper form and technique to help them perform better. Coaches’ also have to build a team’s strategy, to build a strategy coaches’ have to analyze their opponent and determine their weaknesses and their strong points before a match so the coach can critique his team and make them ready for that specific team, by calling specific plays and putting in specific players to make his team play their

Now this point can go either way; while a coach should be able to motivate their players, the players themselves should have an inside motivation of their own. It all goes back to communication. If a coach is not good at communicating their expectations and such with the players, sometimes the players can become uninterested. Even more drastically, there have been cases where a coach was just so bad, it even caused a player to turn away and completely lack motivation to even continue to play the sport (Bornstein 2). All of the above are mostly qualities that a coach must show on the court, but what about off court?

So many Coaches have talent and dedication for what they do. I 'm proud to play for one that has a spectacular history of coaching. That coach is Dennis Lorio, who Graduated from LSU (Louisiana State University) with an economic degree and played baseball. “I love the intensity and the relationship in football” Coach Lorio explaining with a passionate expression. I can see it in his eyes that he is very dedicated and hardworking coach. As of now he is 62 years old and still willing to coach. “It’s not the same without coaching. The joy and the sorrow I feel during the season has been addicted to me. I’ve been in this game almost all my life and that is a very long time.”

Having a coach in life will positively influence your character and your skills. Also, having a coach doesn’t necessarily mean that your playing on a field. A coach can be anyone from a role model to a parent or guardian, a teacher, a pastor, a mentor, or sometimes even a best friend. One of the most important things for a coach to have is influence, and more important than that is that the influence he has on his players must be positive. As a leader, a coaches job is to better his players on and off of the field. This is done by developing the character of his players through encouragement and helping them understand that the game is more than just about winning. A good coach will always put the needs of his players first before he considers himself as a factor. If a coach is successful his players will develop a strong sense of self-motivation. This helps by allowing the player to

Coaches need to be able to convey passion to their players, to inspire them to get the most out of their performance. A successful coach will possess a positive attitude and enthusiasm for the game

We as coaches have taken on a role of responsibility that means a lot to athletes, families and communities. Playing athletics of any sort will teach you many life lessons. But within any work force, you have to produce or make some form of progress. With that being said a major factor when it comes to coaching is, what do you value more? The development of your players or winning games to look good or satisfy some internal drive?

Coaching is generally link to high emotional intelligence, coaches should be good at understanding and relating to people as they are interested in people. Coaching is also about showing empathy and relationship building. Coaches/ managers should be able to transfer their knowledge and skills to their subordinates. Imagine how inefficient it would be if the manager or coach is not able to relay correct instructions or knowhow to his staff in order to perform the job. A communication

Finding a worthy coach is almost as challenging as having the qualities of a pleasant coach. There are numerous essentials necessary to have these attributes. Many people believe that a coach is simply an “athletic trainer or instructor,” as this is the dictionary definition. However, that is false. Although people typically think otherwise, these underrated coaches do more than instruct athletes. A worthy coach cares about the morale of the team over winning and losing. Coaches should be an inspiration to youth. They should motivate teens to keep trying, and teach them never to quit. The best coaches often encourage the team to want to win, rather than pressure them to feel that they must win.

From my experiences being an athlete competing on different track and field teams I have noticed how coaches can affect an individual athlete and the dynamics of an entire team. While I was in high school I ran for both my high school and a competitive club team. My club coach was very serious, structured and he was not very personable. We was passionate and intrinsically motivated which I admired. On the other hand, my high school coach always seemed to have more important things to do and he had favourite athletes.

There are fundamental personal qualities, coaching competencies and skills that are needed to become a good coach.

Coaches are involved in every sport, whether someone is playing football or even chess team. Each coach own his/her own special style of coaching intrigued me. I pondered about how each coaching style can affect the player’s performances, and how player’s personalities can connect better with some coaches than others. Some coaches even venture to cross over and coach multiple sports, propelling themselves into an entirely different atmosphere, where they must adjust their coaching specifically to the sport.

A good coach listens to their players. They don't just focus on the techniques and winning but they listen to their players concerns and problems to help them grow as a player. A good coach motivates and supports their players no matter if they are winning or losing. Players need support when they are losing or making mistakes and they need motivation when they are winning and doing great. When coaches believe in their team, their team will believe in themselves. Coaches need to reinforce the rules for

There is two types of coaches that I have played for. The first group of coaches had a very negative impact on me. They were the types of coaches that were very threatening, and because of that a lot of the teams they had would underachieve. There way of trying to get the most out of a team during games would be mentioning killers if for practice the next day if we didn 't pick it up. This had some guys playing scared and it didn’t work out too well. The other thing that they would do is play teammates against each other. They would tell players there spot on the depth chart, and in a high school locker room this didn 't go over too well. It sound ridiculous saying this now, but to me it seemed like these coaches just didn 't adapt to there players enough to get the most out of them.

This book is mainly talking about coaching, its definition and principles and a big focus on the relation between coaching and leadership, stressing out, with case studies and proofs from the author’s own experience and others experience, on the importance of this concept. John Whitmore wrote the first edition of this book in 1992, with the intention of setting the ground rules of coaching as it was a new field and he wanted everyone who was about to step in this area to have the basic knowledge needed for Coaching, as there were merely any books regarding this topic then. I would recommend that you would have some sort of basic knowledge about coaching and was engaged in any sort of training regarding this area before reading this book, as this will give you more insight about the author’s ideas, examples, case studies, terms and expressions.