Coaching Minds
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Coaching Minds Coaching is a great privelage!
And I want to use this page to tell people about thoughts I've had about coaching. And to get feedback and help for other coaches. I don't quite know how to lay this out yet, but wanted to put something down and hopefully get something started. My main focus here is to do the best job possible for the kids. How do coaches get better? How do parents get better? How do players get better? Number One Priortiy
What ever you're coaching is not about YOU! IT'S NOT ABOUT YOU!!!!Put your ego's aside. It's about the KIDS! It's about the TEAM! I see our society and individuals becoming so selfish these days, that it extends into coaching, and is not good. Coaching is about teaching. So, stick to teaching the team fundamentals. Break down your sport into things, and I mean little things, that can make your players understand what is most important for them to understand in building a team. The things that they must do to become habits that will help the team. These things will make the difference in your sport, regardless of what offense or defense you are running. Fundamentals are the basic skills, or knowledge, or habits that will get the job done, time and time again, when the game is on the line. Then hold them accountable for them. In other words, don't let them get away with forgetting them or not doing them in practice. Get your coaching done at practice. Get it done behind the scenes of the games. It takes 15 minutes a day, for 21 straight days for something to become a habit. DO IT! Number Two Priority
Fundamentals - Fundamentals - Fundamentals or shooting of a basketball, gun, bow, or even something like your finances or the economy: you can usually narrow the problem or part of the problem down to something being wrong with the fundamental steps or practices involved with the activity. Go back to the fundamentals you were taught when learning to shoot or swing or whatever. Go back to the drawing board and break things down into simple steps. This will reinforce what your are trying to do, and 90% of the time your problems will be fixed and progress resumes again. *****That is why you must focus your coaching on the FUNDAMENTALS! This is where success is started, fixed, and inevitably accomplished. Stop and think about the little things your team needs to learn and make as habits inorder to get where they want to go. These are the fundamentals that are needed to be worked on and kept apart of your program, always!. Just remember, it's not the big things that make the differences between winners and losers. It's the little things, getting done consistently, that makes the difference. Fundamentals are not always physical things either. Fundamentals can mean mental thoughts, and team thoughts, and principles that are coached and made into habits. When it's game time and the pressure is on, you want your team to be able to fall back on old, worn out principles, and fundamentals that are just a natural part of the game. They won't be worrying about plays, or skills, or techniques, just playing the game fundamentally sound. They can then add their athleticism and decision making uniquiness to the mix and be the playing at much higher levels, with confidence and teamwork. Though we make things complex sometimes, we need to keep them simple, as well. Fundamentals are simple, but the key to success. Number Three Priority
Team Roles and Individual Roles Every team or group that works together has roles or functions within it. The individuals that are involved bring different personalities, thoughts, strengths, and qualities to every function that is trying to be accomplished. This uniqueness is what makes that person, player, or team member who they are. These qualities need to be applied in a specific way in order to benefit the group and its performance.
It is up to the coach or group leader to recognize this in everyone involved. It is also up to the coach to encourage and inspire each member to understand their uniqueness to a point of benefiting the whole team. This is the role that the individual must play in-order to make the team stronger and a single unit. It is very vital to the group that all the roles are communicated, understood, and carried out to the best of the individuals ability. Roles are not written in stone, either. Roles can change even during the game or event at any time. Coaches must be able to recognize this and make adjustments on the fly. Review your team members. Find their strengths. Encourage them into roles that they can grow at and achieve. Make sure they know how important every role on the team is. When they improve, the team improves. It is quite obvious that communicating these roles is very important. First communicate them to the individuals and then to the team as a whole. This way everyone understands the initial roles. Remind them roles will change, and we must all be ready for the changes. Learn to communicate with tact, fairness, and most of all team values in mind.  |