...a national convention, wherever I go there always seems to be other coaches in attendance. The most common seem to be a life coach, health coach, or business executive coach. Regardless of what “type” of coach they are, there are some very similar patterns that you see in the ones who are unbelievably successful and clearly defined patterns in the ones you see that are struggling immensely. Struggling not only to stay congruent with the message they teach and tools they share with their clients, but also struggling financially and in their business....
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...or be unresponsive and see the coach as an adult telling them what to do. Either way, whether or not a player respects a coach,...
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...that enables learning and development to occur and thus performance to improve. Directive coaching - is where the coach offers solutions, tools and techniques for moving forward (as in the sports arena). Sometimes it may be useful to offer solutions, however the danger is that the solution may not be quite appropriate for the situation and consequently people may not feel fully committed to the solution provided. Non-Directive coaching - is coaching where the coach asks questions to allow people to find their own solutions. A non-directive coach will not offer advice and rarely even give suggestions, although through skilful questioning they will help someone to see their situation from a different perspective, gain clarity, uncover options, challenge inconsistencies and hold them accountable to their actions. Coaching can differ from other development methods such as e-learning and training courses because while e-learning and training programmes give the ‘employee’ the answers they need to succeed coaching helps them to find the answers themselves by the coach asking questions that will give results. They also differ in the end result. E-learning or a training course will have a structure and will end in a result that has already been planned out where as coaching goals can change throughout the process and are much more personnel to the coachee. The coach is the trained person who listens to the coachee and reflects on the coachee’s ideas and worries in life. They ask questions...
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...Introduction Coaching is a useful way of developing people’s skills and abilities, and boosting performance (What is Coaching? How to be an Effective Coach, n.d.). In order to be a successful coach one has to plan and prepare for the session. The coach assists the coachee recognize his/her strengths and weaknesses in order to “gain an appreciation of his/her capabilities for growth and builds self-confidence”. During the initial coaching session, the intent is to establish rapport with the coachee and build a bond that will assist me with helping her fulfill her goals with positive results. Pre-Coaching Plan True coaching is the art of asking the one pertinent question, and then giving the client all the necessary space and time to work with it, all the way to complete and very practical client satisfaction (Cardon, 2008). Prior to my coaching preparation, I contacted a co-worker named Joyce Vaughn to ask if she would act as my coachee during the entirety of my course. My goal is to get to know her so that she is comfortable enough...
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...Coaching Priorities and Principles The central theme of this section is teaching life lessons that will impact your players for the rest of their lives through the game of baseball. The game of baseball is truly the greatest game for instilling trust, teamwork, cooperation, discipline, work ethic and many different character traits that will provide a solid foundation for the rest of their lives. These coaches talk about the love of the game, making baseball fun, competing with class, hustling, and integrity. The life lessons of failure, fear, frustration, loneliness, slumping, making adjustments and controlling emotions are lessons that are learned in this great game of baseball. This is a game of failure and young men must learn the ability to fail and bounce back, and I talk about this with my team all the time. The many different highs and lows of life are more easily handled if you have experienced this before and know how to handle it. You must not be afraid to fail, but you must learn from your failure and rebound. How you respond to failure, frustration and slumps is what is really important. Being a part of a team also instills many positive characteristic traits in young men, none more important than trust. Players must learn to trust each other and coaches must learn to trust players. Teams that have players and coaches that truly trust in each other are winners. Along with those mentioned above, there are also many other principles we learn in the game...
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...The Future of Executive Coaching: Analysis From a Market Life Cycle Approach Where are we, where are we going, and how do we prepare for what’s next? Sheila Maher, MA., MBA. and Suzi Pomerantz, MT., MCC [This article first appeared in the International Journal of Coaching in Organizations, 2003, 1(2), 3-11. It can be downloaded and printed for personal use only. Please obtain prior written permission for wider printing and d istribution from J ohn L azar, IJCO Co-Executive E ditor, at john@ijco.info .] In launching this journal the editorial board envisioned that the journal would provide a forum for “reflection and analysis…by those leaders of this eme rging field who recogn ize coach ing to be a fixture rather than a fad...” 1 This a rticle exp lores the m arket life cycle o f executive coac hing , considerin g its history and growth, and estimating its current position. We discuss the four stages of the market life cycle: product introduction, market growth, market maturity, and sales decline, exploring the implications for our profession of each stage. Understanding where coaching is in the market cycle allows u s to consider strateg ies to stim ulate the co ntinu ed growth of the pro fession . In this a rticle we present our th esis that “this emerging field” is actually already in the mature stage of its lifecycle and we make recommendations for mo ving the professio n forw ard. It is clear that coac hing is no t a fad an d it is not ne w. Coaching is rooted in a range...
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...interaction and the coach-player interaction of the Lakeshore United Soccer Club (LUSC) was greatly determined by the game. The coach of the LUSC also used feedback with his players. Two types of feedback the coach used were motivational and instructional feedback. One personal bias I may have is I officiated the LUSC game earlier in the week against a different team. Although I was not officiating this game, I still may have had bias due to the outcome of my game. This game was the last game of the night for the tournament, and the boys already had played another game earlier in the day. It was around 34 degrees and at times it began to snow during the game. Most of...
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...saying I am not trying to stir up crap and feel that the head coach has made a good impact on game play, leading to a great season. My concern is with other part of being a coach (and what we have had problems with that lead to other staff being removed) that someone needs to mentor him on, which is the part of being a role model, mentor and leading young men to become good student athletes and citizens. Just a couple items… I know I sent you a text about it, but just to provide more fidelity. Originally, Trevor was going to try and meet coach Wolkoff on Saturday prior to practice, but practice was cancelled. So Trevor sent coach a text Friday about meeting with...
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...attention thanks in part to media, NCAA recruiting violation scandals are the topic of conversation for many households, especially those who have young athletes who are wanting to be recruited by their favorite schools. NCAA Definition of “Recruiting” and Their Position The NCAA defines “recruiting” as “any solicitation of prospective student-athletes or their parents by an institutional staff member or by a representative of the institution’s athletics interests for the purpose of securing a prospective student-athlete’s enrollment and ultimate participation in the institution’s intercollegiate athletics program.” ("Ncaa," 2011) This means that any individual, whether it be a coach or regular staff member, like a teacher, that is attempting to engage a prospective student-athlete and their parents into talks about...
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...imagery” created in the coach’s speeches and the use of their vulgar language around the young players. The author uses the Esquire Network series, Friday Night Tykes (FNT) as his illustration to his readers, assuming the reader has watched the show. He uses the example “You have the opportunity, today, to rip their heads off and let them bleed” (pr.1) from the show, to represent the relationship being expressed between the coaches and players. He assumes he is showing his pathos at this point in the article and that attention of the readers is being grabbed. Another point of the article’s structure and stance involves the coach’s perspective between positive adult leadership and their vulgar, negative style on the field. One specific coach from the Outlaws explains how parents specifically put their kids on his team to prevent them from growing up to be a wimp. With this comment the author then follows up by stating “In other words, the coaches are loud and tough because perceived consequences of being quiet and soft-drugs, gangs, crime, poverty-are too severe” (pr. 13). It’s now obvious the author becomes more open-minded from watching the show because earlier in the...
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...Growing up playing ball, which includes football, baseball, and my first love basketball, it has took me all across the world and allowed me to meet and network with other players and coaches. With that being said the game of basketball broaden my ideas all together. The love for the game drives me today to become someday a coach at the collegiate level. For this assignment I went forth with interviewing my coach Kelly Wells who has also influenced my life in many other ways than just the correct way of scoring the basketball. I began our conversation with coach Wells asking him to answer a few question about the lifestyle of his career and the first thing he said to me was to go another route. I thought that was pretty funny. He began to answer my first set of questions about why coaching, that I think every player would have said, which was the fact that he just loved it so much. After a while, I kind of turned into the one answering questions and he began to ask. The depth of our conversation consisted about his family and how they are a major part of his success. He explained how the understanding and reasoning with his career just takes off so much stress. He hates to miss things with his family such as children birthday’s or sometime anniversary dates because of games or practice or travel. However they understand and shares his love for coaching and the game of...
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...options for developing it within an organization. And in conclusion, I will identify 3 advantages and 3 disadvantages of developing in house coaching. 2 types of coaching * Sports Coaching: This is what many people think of when they hear the word “coach”. A “player” is helped to develop their skills by a “coach”. On the other hand, the term sports coach encompasses a wide range of roles and approaches, from the football manager on the touchline, through one-to-one coaches for athletes and players, to specialist coaches for fitness and health. There are also coaches who focus on the ‘mental game’, helping sports players fine-tune their psychological preparation for high-pressure events. * Executive coaching: is a form of business coaching which is typically aimed at developing senior managers, directors and key players within a business setting. It may enhance current performance, taking skills and abilities to a new level and help individuals adapt to new situations or it may address poor performance. This type of coaching may also be termed Leadership Coaching or Performance Coaching as it tends to target the same audience and similar issues. How coaching can be directive and non directive? 1. Directive: Is where the coach offers you solutions, tools and techniques for moving forward. You may like to be offered solutions however the danger is that the solution...
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...Coach Mike Krzyzewski (Coach K.) and Coach Robert Knight (Coach Knight) were two of the most winning and successful coaches to ever coach basketball. These men are not just known for their record wins, but for their unique leadership. They each had a unique way of leading their teams. Coach Knight was Indiana University’s head basketball coach and became a legend there. Coach K. was the head coach at Duke University since 1980. A fact of interest, both of these two men knew each other in an earlier time. Coach Knight had been Mike Krzyzewski’s basketball coach when he played for the United States Military Academy at West Point. It was there they began to build a relationship of trust and respect that would follow and remain with them throughout both of their careers and beyond, as they were also friends. Each of these men have differing ways in which they lead their teams, but there are leadership styles which they shared when it came to coaching. When taking the model which Robert Katz developed we can see there are skills that did account for their success. Coach Knight held two of the leadership traits that were professed by Katz. Those were technical skills and conceptual skills. He had the ability to know exactly was needed and how to make changes based on each individual situation. According to Katz’s model, Coach Knight did not have human skills. He was known for his roughness (e.g; using high levels of profanity and throwing objects onto the court). He did not have human...
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...Coaching Done Right As a coach, you’re given an opportunity to make the biggest impact in an athlete’s life. Ever since I started playing sports I’ve always wanted to coach, but I believe Coach Mike my baseball coach was one of the big influences on me pursuing coaching. During the off season he’d come pick us up to go do morning practices. The extra time he put into making sure we were confident with our skills, the way he befriended us and the extra things he did to help us out really showed me the power a coach has. That was the defining moment where I decided I wanted to become a coach. I believe that no matter how many wins and championships you have your not a great coach unless you have connected with all your player and staff members. In today’s age, a coach is like an extra parent or a best friend to athletes. The role of a coach is to not only to teach their athletes the technical and tactical components of their sport, but to also show them good sportsmanship and character both on and off the field. In some cases a coach is the most important figure in a athletes life. Coaches encourage you to be the best you can possibly be and help prepare you for the next level. A coach is the first person an athlete will go to when they don’t know what to do. Through my experience playing sports that I noticed that kids are more...
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...Athletic directors typically appreciate working with coaches and athletes to improve teams by helping them reach their full potential by being responsible, working well with people, speaking well in front of a large crowd, and most importantly being a strong leader. Oftentimes athletic directors get overlooked, and won’t get the recognition they deserve, because all the glory and praise usually goes to the outstanding coaches who get the job done for their teams. Many people will totally forget about the tactical side of being in an athletic office. Seeing the vision long term, being persistent, and diligent is most definitely key to being a responsible leader of athletics at that particular school. Athletic directors should usually like being in a leadership position, and they sometimes can even be moved into positions with a conference office, which will probably pay more in the long run. Athletic directors provide enlightenment and direction for a school’s sports program to help them succeed in every way possible. They supply a budget and portion out spending items like the coaches salaries, team travel, equipment purchases, and facility preservations. This profession requires a master’s degree, as well as a coaching job from anywhere between three to five years, or just working in an athletic office. There are a number of jobs for athletic directors to take care of like checking to make sure their players are eligible, and to confirm some of their needs are taken care of...
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