...“A coach is someone who tells you what you don’t want to hear, who has you see what you don’t want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be” (Tom Landry). In order for athletes to achieve their highest goal, they need to have an effective coach that will help them become the best athlete they can be. An effective coach will be successful while working to achieve goals they intended. A powerful coach takes their love for the sport and puts it into their athletes. Athletes will progress immensely by what they learn from their coach. Coaching is such an influential position in an athlete's life and there are certain attributes and concepts they must know and employ to be successful. Coaches need to have a positive relationship...
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...basketball coach in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. Even though Junior had only known his coach for a short amount of time, he has changed his outlook on his life in a positive way. Coach helped push him past the expectations people have for a reservation Indian. They have an important relationship because he teaches Junior he is more capable than he thinks and boosts his self confidence. If Junior had not connected with Coach he would not have had a positive outlook on his basketball skills and future. “Coach was thinking I would be an all-state player in a few years. He was thinking maybe I’d play some college ball. It was crazy. How often does a reservation Indian kid here that? How often do you hear the words “Indian” and “college” in the same sentence?”(180) Is a quote from the novel that proves how much Coach believes in Junior despite the fact he is Indian, and the way he thinks about him and his potential does not change. His words prove that he is different than other white people and help Junior believe in himself. “You’re starting tonight. And you’re going to guard Rowdy. The whole game. He’s your man. You have to stop him. If you stop him, we win this game....
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...Coach An Investment Thought March 9, 2016 American’s have many luxury brands that interest us and Coach is one of them. A luxury brand is defined as a product that we do not need but a good that as our incomes increase we view them as desirable. They tend to be better quality goods than the rest and Coach has a strategic edge over their competition by making their products with the quality we expect but also at a more accessible price. An accessible price is something that we can easily get. So an accessible luxury product is one that fits into the exceptional quality but is still at a price that we can achieve easily without having to work extra for. First let us get a brief history on Coach and then we can better see some of the more pertinent issues we need to discuss. Coach was founded in 1941 as a family-run business in Manhattan. The family originally made wallets and billfolds all by hand. Coach has grown dramatically since then but maintains the original high standards for materials used, quality, and integrity. Coach is now based in New York City and they are known for more than just wallets with many different leather lines from handbags to shoes and other accessories like watches and fragrances. Lewis Frankfort was the former CEO and chairman of Coach. He was with Coach since 1979 and retired as CEO in January 2014 and later that year as executive chairman as well. He was CEO of Coach for over 18 years. Currently Victor Luis is the CEO of Coach and is ready...
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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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...Midterm Examination Leadership 1. Facing the Giants Facing the Giants is a movie about Grant Taylor who is a high school football coach with a mediocre record. After several poor seasons, the football team “Shiloh Eagles” is considering replacing him as head coach. This is not the only problem the coach is facing, he has a lot of problem, his car is breaking down, the players’ fathers are trying to get him fired, and he discovers that he is the reason why he and his wife has no child. One day, in order to find a solution to these problems, he prays to God for help. At first he doubted God but after listening to the two farmers metaphor where the Father said that the good farmer is the one who prepare his field rather than not preparing and just waiting. Taylor then prepares his team. After he pray for God’s help he decided to make three big changes (challenge the process) to the team: - He changes the philosophy of the team and the team member’s life. He decided to praise God after each game, no matter what the result. He said to his team members to play for God’s glory instead of for their own sake. Coach Taylor asks his players, "What's the purpose of this team." Then one of the players responds, "To win ball games." The coach then says, "Winning football games is too small a thing to live for. We're not here just to get glory, make money, and die. So I'm here to present you with a new team philosophy. We need to give God our best in every area. And if we win we praise...
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...Issues in Servant Leadership Coach John Wooden, the legendary men’s college basketball coach who led UCLA to 10 national championships in the late 60’s and early 70’s, wrote “Wooden on Leadership.” He has been called the greatest coach of all time, regardless of sport, and has written several books about character habits and leadership. Some of his remarkable achievements are the 10 national championships, seven of them in a row, 88 consecutive victories, 38 straight tournament playoff wins, four perfect seasons (all but the 88 consecutive wins are still records), and in 41 years of coaching he only had one losing season which was his first. Of course with this type of success coaches and business leaders around the world wanted to know what was his secret. How did he do it? The secret, he reveals, is simple, and parallels many of the same principles of servant leadership. Coach Wooden does not simply offer up random thoughts on leadership and coaching. He graduated Purdue as an English teacher and, barring a few financial hurdles, he would have been quite satisfied to have become a teacher rather than a coach. But he had been a highly successful athlete at Purdue and was sought after as a coach for a high school program in Indiana. It was then that he began to develop an overall concept for leadership that has over the years solidified into a tangible philosophy that has been used by many leaders since then. The reader can tell that Coach Wooden took great pride in this...
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...Developmentally disabled Job Coach Thelma Robinson BUS/303Human Resource Management Mary Wright August 10, 2015 Developmentally disabled job Coach A developmentally disabled job coach is a very rewarding career for someone who enjoys helping others. A job coach is a trained specialist that applies techniques to assist their audience with skills they need to perform job related task. The job coach is also responsible for providing the client with necessary skills to become an acceptable employee. I like to think of the job coach as an extension of the clients learning power. The position as job coach requires a variety of responsibilities. The first responsibility is to work closely with individual/s that has some type of disability. The job coach must then assess the individual to determine what degree of assistance is required. Once the coach has completed the assessment of the individuals he or she must then teach them the basic skills of obtaining employment. The clients must learn work related rules and expectable social behavior. The job coach is required to provide assistance with obtaining...
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...Like many coach’s, I’ve always been a big fan of Coach John Wooden. He is a legendary college basketball coach who led UCLA to 10 national championships and one of the winningest programs in sports history. I’ve been an avid reader of any books I could find from Coach Wooden and highly recommend reading any of his books on leadership. He led with integrity and was an example of doing things the right way. We see a lot of coach’s now that relish in the spotlight and are driven by ego. They tirade on the sidelines yelling and screaming putting on a show. Coach Wooden, believed and demonstrated self-control and was a big believer in controlling your emotions. He always referred to himself as a teacher first. One of his major teachings...
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...controlling. Coach Boone demonstrated these four functions in different scenarios that he faced. When Coach Boone accepted the head coach position he knew that he would have many challenges and obstacles to face. Coach Boone knew that he would have to have a plan and set it into motion to bring the team together. This was going to be the first time that blacks and whites would be on the same team in this town. Coach Boone put a plan into action to bring the players together as a team. One of his actions was to force the players to sit together on the bus when they were on their way to training camp. He made sure one black player and one white player were sitting together and rooming together at the camp so that they would get a chance to get to know one another. He also knew that by making Bertier and Campbell the team captains that they would help bring the team together. Once Bertier and Campbell formed their bond, it helped the other players to let their guard down and try to become a real team. Coach Boone also used his organizational skills when set everything up for the training camp. He organized how their day would go from the conditioning to get into shape to the players that would have to room together. It was important to Coach Boone to have things run his way so that he could get the team where he needed them to be for the season. Coach Boone was in charge and he made sure that everyone knew he was the leader of the team. One of the ways that Coach Boone showed that...
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...everything. Any sports contest or in life, there will always be a winner and a loser. Fans need to realize their team cannot win every single game. If that was the case, the team would be perfect and no one is perfect. Being a sports fan and an athlete, winning is bittersweet, but sometimes, everyone needs to lose in order to learn from their mistakes and to become a better athlete. I think sports fans who never played a sport, do not understand the true meaning of winning and losing. They need to realize no athlete or team is perfect. They never experienced the feelings that come with winning and losing. If they did, then they could better relate with their sports teams and favorite athletes. In the section, Professional Context, pages 143 and 144, discusses the coach’s role in winning and losing. Sociologist Harry Edwards quoted, “In American society, it is commonly accepted that the success or failure of an athletic unit depends almost entirely upon the competence or incompetence of its coach.” (Llewellyn, p. 143). I agree and disagree with this quote because it can go both ways. A coach should set the tone and example of how the team should act and play, but at the same time, it is up to the athlete to put in the hard work and dedication to the game and team. A team’s success does not...
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...For my interview I choose coach Brian Garza that currently coaches at Edinburg high school. He coaches the defensive ends there and does a fine job in my opinion. I started off by asking him what his background in football. He said they he grew up playing football. He played pop warner all the way to senior in high school. He explained to me how football was a massive part of his life. I asked him About his accomplishments in football. He said that while playing in high school, he was a 1st team all-city player, a first team all-district play, a 1st team all valley players, along with red zone player of the year, but that was not what he most proud of. He most proud of how he’s had many football players that he has coached as well be first...
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...for fiscal 2014, net sales decreased 5.3% or $269.2 million to $4.81 billion. During 2013-2015, net income for Coach decreased from $1,034 million to $402 million. Specifically, net income decreased in fiscal 2015 as compared to fiscal 2014, due to a decrease in operating income of $502.1 million, partially offset by a $131.8 million decrease in our provision for income taxes. Net income per diluted share decreased primarily due to lower net income. Although Coach’s net income is still higher than Kate Spade and Guess, it falls behind MK in 2015, who saw a big jump on net income, reaching at $880 million. Clearly, Coach is under pressure from MK’s challenge. MK’s sales have been increasing over the three years and finally catches up with Coach in 2015, reaching at over $4,300 million. In the meanwhile, MK keeps expense growth proportioned to sales, keeping a profit margin of 20% over the years. However Coach’s profit margin declined from 20.38% to 9.6%, beaten by Kate Spade. Another trend that can be analyzed is total assets. Coach has a huge advantage on this item. Specifically, Coach has total assets at $4,669 million in 2015, while the second largest in total assets, MK, falls behind Coach at $2,691 million. However, Coach has the second highest liabilities to assets ratio after Kate Spade. Key Ratio Analysis Profitability Ratios The profitability ratios show how well a company manages its net sales to convert them into profits. Coach’s profitability has decreased dramatically...
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...author of this portfolio is currently the head boy’s basketball coach at Desert Hot Springs High School. Basketball has always been a passion of the author ever since he was a young boy playing the game in front of his childhood home. Immediately after high school, he had put himself in a situation of being a young father raising a newborn, beautiful little girl. It was then, when he realized that he wanted to become a basketball coach. He felt that it would be tough for him to pursue a career playing basketball, while having to support a family, so he figured why not coach the sport that he was passionate about. His experiences with former coaches, both positive and negative, have helped shape his coaching philosophy. The first high school coach that the author played for helped him realize the coach that he did not want to become for his players. This high school coach would be consistently late to practice, make inappropriate comments to players and simply roll the basketballs out and have the team practice on their own. This coach almost turned the author off from playing the sport that he adored because of the ineffective coaching style that was demonstrated. The author then ended up transferring schools in hope for a better experience playing basketball. The last coach that the author played for in high...
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...MGMT3000 Unit #6 Assignment Coach Carter 1) Describe the portrayed leader. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the leader? Answer: Coach Carter is a great man who accepted an offer from Richmond High School as the basketball coach based on not only his own interest, but more interest of the basketball players’ future. As a former basketball player, he knew that the current educational system would lead the basketball players to no future, so he didn’t only pay attention on improving players’ basketball skills, but also focused on players’ academics. Under his coaching, Richmond basketball players not only improved their basketball skills, but also achieved high on academics. He was a strong leadership with great expert power and also knew how to use his power to achieve goals. However, he also showed up his weakness in the film. He almost gave up on the team because of a conflict. 2) Utilizing information you have learned about leadership from your text, explain how a key leadership model, theory or approach is illustrated in the film. Answer: Coach Carter showed more than one leadership styles in the movie, and his key leadership is transformational leadership. As the textbook states: a transformational leadership inspires followers to transcend their own self-interests for the good of the organization and is capable of having a profound and extraordinary effect on their followers. They pay attention...
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...Basketball Coach As a part of this assignment, I chose to interview a friend of father’s who is a head basketball coach in my hometown. I was recently home for Spring Break and was able to meet with Ken Overton to discuss his career as a high school basketball coach and the years he spent as a teacher. I also was able to ask him many questions about how he chose this path and what steps are needed to realize this dream. I admit it is a little difficult to envision such a path at my age but it seems with a lot of hard work and education, I can see myself coaching basketball. I already love the sport and hope to make it a central focus of my future. While I already knew there is not a lot of money in high school coaching, I also feel this position is more about a calling than a salary. Interview Questions: 1. How long have you been a high school basketball coach? 2. What type of education do you need to become a high school basketball coach? 3. How many years of coaching before you become head coach? 4. What has been the most impressionable experience of your coaching career? 5. Do you think your coaching makes a difference? 6. How would you define the job satisfaction of coaching? 7. How do you feel about having to teach history in the classroom and also coach the team after school and in spare time? Why can’t it be a separate job position? 8. Do you stay in touch with students you have coached? 9. What was the most difficult situation you encountered as a coach? 10...
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