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Jeffrey Seigler

Qualification of a GOOD coach?

A coach is someone who can give correction without resentment - Coach John Wooden

"Leaders have to search for the heart on a team, because the person who has it can bring out the

best in everybody else." - Coach K

"The ideal way to win a championship is step by step."- Coach Phil Jackson

Before we talk about what qualities and skill sets that makes you a good coach, we need to first

understand how difficult coaching really is. Coaching is sometimes a thankless, frustrating non

winning kind of job/career. When it comes to judging your performance everyone seems to be an

expert and have the qualifications to criticize you. Fans, parents, students, alumni, the media, and

the teams organization all seem ready to offer you either the thumbs up or thumbs down. Whats

even more frustrating for a coach is that so much of this judgment comes from individuals who

dont seem to have a clue about you, your players, or what youre trying to accomplish with the

team.

Coaching is also one of those jobs where your effectiveness is always judged by something that

is often totally out of your control, winning and losing. You can be a bad or ineffective coach,

because you can get lucky enough to have great players on your team, you win all the time

because of good record you are considered in your profession to be a great coach. But however

you can be a wonderful coach and teacher but lack of player talent, luck, or other circumstances

beyond your control such as player injuries, your won loss record is not to well and as a

consequence of this youre seen as an ineffective coach.

So now lets take a look at what it takes to be a good coach.


Coaches: Then our discussion will help you get a better sense of how the finest of coaches

conduct themselves. You will learn which characteristics best motivate and inspire your players.

How do the really great teachers conduct themselves? What it is about these individuals that

make them so successful? What are some specific things that you can learn from them that will

help elevate you in the coaching ranks? you can use this list to begin to work on making yourself

a much better coach.

Athletes: This will help you figure out how your own coach measures up on how to be a good

coach. It will give you some information that will allow you to know more about your how your

coach conducts him/herself in relation to you and your teammates.This will give you the ability

to test the coach athlete situation that you might find yourself in. It's very difficult for an athlete

to really know if theres something wrong with him or the coach. Most often in emotional coach

athlete interactions, the athlete typically comes away feeling badly about him/herself. I Hope the

following information will help you better understand what is really going on with you and your

coach.

Parents of an athlete: Our discussion will help you get a good idea of a great coach. How do they

treat their athletes? How do the coaches conduct themselves? How do they interact with you as

the parent? How do they deal with winning and losing? How do the coaches deal with mistakes

and failures? Parents need to be educated as much as possible about their childs sport and

coaches in order to help their son or daughter have the best experience with the sport possible.

What makes a Great coach?

The very best coaches get their athletes to believe in themselves and their teammates; Good

coaches inspire their players to do more than they think they can. Part of this involves building
the athlete up rather than knocking him down. Good coaches always build self esteem rather than

weaken it. In other words the coach doesnt praise a mediocre effort. He/she simply makes it a

practice to catch his/her athletes doing things right. The good coach doesnt get caught up in

playing head games that leave the athlete questioning his/her abilities.

The very best coaches are passionate about what they do; these coaches know that passion is a

high test fuel that will power you over obstacles, beyond setbacks and through frustration until

you achieve success. Their passion is infectious, motivational and inspiring.

Great coaches do not let their egos get tied up into the game; the best coaches are mentally

healthy enough to know that they are not their performances, regardless of what others around

them may say. They do not feel as down has an individual when their teams loses or do they feel

that much better about themselves when their team succeed.. Coaches who get into trouble with

their athletes do so because they are emotional and tend to feel threatened by a loss. Their egos

are on the line whenever his/her players compete and therefore they feel like they have a lot to

lose.

Great coaches understand their players; Coaches have a basic understanding that each athlete

on the team is different in attitude, personality, sensitivity and how they handle criticism and

adversity. These coaches take the time to get to know each athlete's differences and styles. They

then know what to say, and how they treat this athlete to achieve maximum coaching

effectiveness. They know that while one athlete may respond well to a hard edge and raised

voice, this approach may totally shut another one down.

Good coaches keep the learning environment safe; they understand that the emotional climate on

the team dramatically affects how players practice and perform. They make it their job to directly
and immediately deal with bullying, petty jealousies that sometimes start between players. They

give a very clear message that cruelty and mistreatment of others will not be allowed and is

doing nothing but hurting the team. these kind of coaches create an atmosphere of safety for the

team that is absolutely just for learning and peak performance.

Great coaches challenge their athletes to do better and push their limits; they inspire their

athletes to believe in themselves by putting them in situations which challenge their limiting

beliefs. They do this by pushing their athletes outside of their comfort zone, physically, mentally

and emotionally, and then helping them overcome that, they can do better than they first believed

they could. They teach the get comfortable being uncomfortable principle, which states that the

only way to grow physically and emotionally is to challenge yourself to do things that arent

easy. In this way they refuse to tolerate mediocrity in effort, attitude, technique, performance.

The best coaches challenge themselves; They maintain a beginners mind when it comes to their

professional development. They understand that regardless of how much success they may have

had in the past doing things their own way, they can always learn new and better ways. In this

way these coaches continually step out of their comfort zone as experts and put themselves in the

more uncomfortable position as beginner and learner. Because these coaches walk the talk and

demand from their athletes exactly what they want from themselves, their athletes are far more

motivated to meet the coachs higher expectations.

Good coaches are not defensive while having interactions with their players or parents; they

understand that part of being a good communicator is that you have to be open to negative

feedback and criticism because within this feedback are the seeds to becoming a better more

successful coach.
Great coaches use their players mistakes as teaching opportunities; they know that their athletes

need to be relaxed, loose and rested in order to play to their potential and that a fear of making

mistakes will always undermine this relaxed mood. the good coaches give their athletes

permission to fail. Coaches tell their players their understanding with mistakes, It's nothing more

than feedback, feedback about what you did wrong and specifically about what you need to do

better next time. One of the bigger teaching mistakes that coaches make is to get angry and

impatient with their athletes when they mess up. This reaction only makes your athletes make

plenty more mistakes. Knowing that your coach gets angry when you make mistakes will cause

you to worry about this while you're playing.

The successful basketball coach is able to teach. He/she must be able to present the basketball

material in such a way that every player can learn and understand quickly. Coaches are not only

able to teach the team as a whole, but can effectively provide individual instruction as needed.

Teaching methods:

Whole Part - Present the overall concept and then teach it step by step. Teaching the whole-part

method works for every skill and concept. Teach the jump shot as a skill, then break it down so

the player can learn the proper form and technique to shooting the jump shot. Present your new

offensive system then break it down into various drills so the players can familiarize themselves

with it and learn all the skills and necessary.

Master the Learning - Make sure that each player has mastered what you are teaching. Sure,

some players will master things more quickly. Each player should be able to adequately perform

what he has learned. If he cannot, then you must look at your methods and determine ways in

which you can help him improve.


Repeat, Repeat, Repeat - Work on the skill or concept until the action becomes automatic. And

when a skill or play is mastered, repetition is still needed to keep it fresh and to improve even

further.

Teach Individually - Work individually with players. Help the less skilled become more adept at

the skill. For the more highly-skilled player, teach them something new or something that will

help them improve on a current skill. Be patient and be able to demonstrate and correct until the

skill is mastered.

Demonstration- One of the best teaching methods available is demonstration. This is pretty

common sense. Maybe you are installing a new set play, show it to them so they can see how it is

run. This will help them learn it and perfect it more quickly. If its more of an individual skill you

are teaching, make sure you can demonstrate it.

Utilize Visual Methods- Incorporate various tools to help you teach and present. Classroom

teachers are always using visual tools when teaching their subject. As basketball coaches, we can

and should do the same. Utilize playbook drawing software to diagram your plays. Keep it low

tech and use a chalkboard. Show game clips of your own games or other games to highlight both

good and bad techniques. The options and ideas are really endless and only halted by your own

creativity.

Do Not Over Coach - Simple concept. It is far better to do a few things well than many things

poorly. If youre finding things arent working so well, you might need to scale it back. Get back

to the basics and, just Keep It Simple.


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