Techniques of Coaching

What priority do you give to winning, having fun, and helping athletes develop physically, psychologically, and socially?

1. athletes develop physically, psychologically, and socially 2. having fun 3. winning

How do you reward good character?

season-end awards for sportsmanship, special privileges such as being named honorary captain for a game, stickers to place on lockers or equipment, certificates, or a simple recognition at a team meeting or practice-ending huddle.

What are three dimensions of communication?

sending and receiving messages, verbal and nonverbal, content and emotion

How do you provide rituals and routines to encourage your athletes to be people of good character?

shake hands with other team to practice respect, develop good citizen habits by fund-raising, mentoring programs, putting equipment away & cleaning up locker room.

What is the Athletes' Character Code?

six moral values are widely advocated by character educators and are embodied in the Athletes' Character Code: be respectful, responsible, caring, honest, fair and a good citizen in sport and in life.

What is character education, and why is it important? Do you believe character education is your responsibility as a coach?

"teaching young people the knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, skills, and behaviors to be a good, fair, kind—in a word, moral—people" total commitment to educating your athletes about moral behavior so that these behaviors are continually practiced, corrected when flawed, and celebrated when demonstrated. Once you accept the role of coach, you are a character educator. Everything you do will likely influence the character of the young people you coach.

How can you become more aware of who you are?

▶By reflecting on your own beliefs and assumptions ▶ By requesting feedback from other people on how they see you and how they react to you

What are some examples of how you emphasize striving to win, rather than winning, with your athletes?

1. The immediate short-term objective of any contest is to win. Striving to win within the rules of the game should be the objective of every athlete and coach. To play sports without striving to win would be dishonest and diminish the joy of playing sports. 2.

How does emphasis on winning differ between recreational and competitive sport programs? Are your objectives compatible with the objectives of the sport program in which you coach?

Both recreational and competitive sport programs are valuable as long as the long-term goal of helping athletes develop remains the first priority. But herein is one of our society's significant sport problems: Many coaches, administrators, parents, and team supporters place greater emphasis on the immediate short-term objective of winning than on the less observable long-term objective of development. A second significant problem is the discrepancy that sometimes exists between the short-term objectives of recreational and competitive sports programs and the short-term objectives of coaches.

What are the three coaching styles most coaches adopt?

Command, Submissive and Cooperative style coaching.

What eight communication skills do coaches need most?

Developing credibility when you communicate, Communicating with a positive approach, Sending messages high in information, Communicating with consistency, Learning how to listen, Improving your nonverbal communication, instructional communication, and reinforcement.

Do you have empathy for your athletes?

Empathy is the ability to understand the thoughts, feelings, and emotions of your athletes and to convey your sensitivity to them. Coaches who have empathy are able to listen to their athletes and express their understanding of what was said. Coaches with empathy more readily communicate respect for their athletes, and in turn they receive more respect.

How would you describe your ideal, public, and real selves?

Ideal Self: refers to the person you would like to be; it represents your values, your sense of right and wrong. what you expect and demand of yourself; it is typically based on moral principles acquired from your family, other important people in your life, and through self-reflection Public Self: the image you believe others have of you. You want others to believe certain things about you so that they respect you, love you, and help you meet your goals. If others believe the wrong things about you, they may ignore you, reject you, or punish you. Real Self: the sum of those subjective thoughts, feelings, and needs that you see as being the authentic you. Your real self is continually changing, and healthy people strive to honestly know themselves and to relate their inner selves to the realities of the outside world. Through interactions with others you come to understand, accept, and experience your real self.

Are you motivated to be the best coach you can be?

If you're not motivated to coach, your athletes will quickly discern that. Consequently, you'll not likely inspire your athletes to be motivated to play their best, and you're not likely to achieve the success that you may want. Thus, why coach? So if you're going to coach, commit yourself fully to the position, and give it your very best effort. Then you can legitimately ask your athletes to do the same.

What is a Philosophy?

pursuit of wisdom; it helps us answer fundamental questions about what, why, and how. determine the way we view objects and experiences in our lives as well as the way we view people and our relationships with them. determine the values we hold.

As the leader, in what ways do you address not only the physical but the psychological and social environment of your athletes?

Leaders build a psychological and social environment that is conducive to achieving the team's goals—what the business world calls the corporate culture and what we'll discuss later in this chapter as team culture.

How do you provide direction for your athletes? Do you focus on a step that will lead to winning as well as other goals?

Leaders provide direction by focusing not on the outcome of winning or losing, but on the steps that lead to winning, and on the other goals they consider important for the team.

What is your coaching style? Can you see how the cooperative style fits with the Athletes First, Winning Second philosophy? What aspects of your coaching methods would you like to change to become a more cooperative-style coach?

My style is cooperative coaching. Yes, athletes need to develop to have the skills necessary to win. Winning should be first and then win secondly. To become more of a cooperative coach I would want to have better communication with your team and compromise (open feedback).

Do you know yourself?

No, I am learning to know myself better through determining my personal values.

Are you knowledgeable about the sport you coach?

Not knowing how to teach technical skills puts you in the position of risking injury to your athletes (depending on the sport) and causing them frustration from their repeated failures. The more you know about the basic technical skills of your sport and about teaching these basics in the proper sequence, the more success and fun you and your athletes will have.

What is your level of self-esteem, and how does this affect your effectiveness as a coach?

Self-esteem is not achieved by defeating others but by living up to your own realistic standards. success as a coach is strongly related to your self-esteem, to how you value yourself. If you have confidence, you will help develop confidence in those around you. If you feel worthy as a person, you will recognize worth in others. If you care about your self, you will more likely care about others. It is not mentally healthy to base your self-esteem on winning and losing.

List the three steps to character and teaching sportsmanship. How do you encourage sportsmanship among your athletes?

Step 1: Identify the principles of Character Step 2: Teach the principles of Character Step 3: provide opportunities to practice moral Behavior practice routines, develop good habits, mentoring younger players, reward good character

What two things must you do to develop your coaching philosophy?

The first is to develop greater self-awareness—to get to know yourself better. The second is to decide what your objectives are in coaching.

Do you agree with the behavioral guidelines for coaches' code of ethics? Or you endorse any of the specific codes of ethics to which I've provided web links?

These are guidelines arrived at by coaches and sport administrators prescribing what are acceptable and unacceptable behaviors by coaches. yes I agree with the guidelines.

How does sport impart a sense of commitment and ethical behavior in athletes?

When athletes give their best, when they commit themselves to pursuing excellence, win or lose they are successful. life was greatly influenced for the better because of my participation in sport, and that I learned the value of commitment through the guidance of my coaches. young people can develop morally; they can learn a basic code of ethics that is transferable to a moral code for life. Competitive sport—in which winning is a valued prize—provides opportunities for high levels of moral development to occur.

What are our personal objectives for coaching? Are you able to achieve them without compromising the well-being of your athletes.

Why do you want to coach? To help young people through sport? To earn a living? To demonstrate your knowledge of the sport? To gain public recognition, maybe even fame?What are the three coaching styles most coaches adopt?

Are your objectives compatible with society's?

coaching for development, so winning falls into place. society sees winning as the most important. strive to coach to achieve all three objectives, while keeping in mind that the development of your athletes is your foremost priority.

What can you do to model good character and moral behavior for your athletes?

create a moral team environment, set rules for good behavior, explain and discuss moral behavior.

Are appropriately self-disclosing with your athletes? Do you share enough to build a trusting relationship between you and your athletes but not so much that you burden athletes with your personal issues?

detachment serves only one of two purposes: to try to extract more effort from the athletes, or to conceal the coach's doubts about his or her self-concept. Self-disclosing does not mean revealing intimate details about your life. It means sharing with your athletes how you feel about what they say and do, or about events that you have shared. Self-disclosure must be relevant to your relationship and appropriate to the situation. Strength is the willingness to take risks in your relationship with your athletes, to disclose yourself with the intent of building a better relationship. Self-awareness, therefore, is the first step to self- disclosure.

What is sportsmanship?

good character when participating in sports. Sportsmanship is about respect for opponents, officials, teammates, coaches—and especially for the game itself.

What do you consider the long-term objective of sport participation? Although winning is the goal of the contest in what ways do you help your athletes develop physically, psychologically, and socially?

helping athletes develop physically, psychologically, and socially—while pursuing the short- term objective of winning the contest because the rewards for winning are immediate and powerful. Keep winning in perspective to those who strive for excellence, who dare to risk error to learn, and who grow with both praise and constructive criticism. the leadership you provide, sport programs produce young people who accept responsibilities, who accept others, and most important, who accept themselves.

What are the three qualities important to the success of any coach?

knowledge, motivation and empathy.

How do you define leadership? What is the difference between leadership and management?

leadership: give the team direction by having a vision of what can be, and they know how to translate this vision into reality. To be an excellent leader—an excellent coach—you must develop the interpersonal skills to move people to action. Communication skills are essential— talking, listening, negotiating, encouraging, and consoling. Coaching is as demanding of communication skills as marathoning is of conditioning skills.

What are the 6 strategies you can use to help build character in the athletes you coach?

model moral behavior, use and teach ethical decision making, motivate your players to develop good character, create a moral team environment, set rules for good behavior and explain and discuss moral behavior

Do you embrace the Athletes First, Winning Second philosophy? Do you disagree with any parts of this philosophy?

through sport education programs, more enlightened sport administrators, and coaches with an Athletes First, Winning Second philosophy, this will change. In the final analysis, what's important is not how many games you win, but how many young people you help to become winners in life.