Watch this video please:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQUiIrCo6JM
If you are reading this blog, chances are you are not a beginning coach. If you watch these three minutes of a Youth Basketball Practice filmed in the Fall of last year, you might see some things that would trouble you. What are the negatives specifically?
Now watch it again and find the things that you do in your practices, or that you maybe DID when you first started coaching? What are the positives specifically? Even if you don't think so, there are some there.
Now, here comes the hard part. Can you talk to these two young coaches and give them your feedback in a way that isn't condescending, isn't too complicated? Can you give them a plan of action for next practice? Can you help them be better coaches?
Can you do it all without bruising their dignity or making them rethink their "volunteer" position?
While it's still a challenge, coaching our teams is much simpler than coaching coaches. Coaches who coach the way they were taught, who see what other coaches have done and emulate them with no thought to the idea of science or human engagement. Can you reach them? Help them?
When we see the coaches at the highest levels of their sport, they have usually won with their teams but they have another gift that allows them to continue flourishing. They have the ability to reach other coaches! Maybe it's their "street cred" alone, but they have something to share with other peers in their sport.
Can you be that Coach? Can you help teach your local coaches, school coaches, YMCA or Boy's and Girl's Club coaches? Can you spread the wealth?
Most probably, without one of these kinds of coaches in your life, YOU wouldn't be where you are today. Paying it forward is the great coaching mantra.
While it's still a challenge, coaching our teams is much simpler than coaching coaches. Coaches who coach the way they were taught, who see what other coaches have done and emulate them with no thought to the idea of science or human engagement. Can you reach them? Help them?
When we see the coaches at the highest levels of their sport, they have usually won with their teams but they have another gift that allows them to continue flourishing. They have the ability to reach other coaches! Maybe it's their "street cred" alone, but they have something to share with other peers in their sport.
Can you be that Coach? Can you help teach your local coaches, school coaches, YMCA or Boy's and Girl's Club coaches? Can you spread the wealth?
Most probably, without one of these kinds of coaches in your life, YOU wouldn't be where you are today. Paying it forward is the great coaching mantra.
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