MIND BODY LIFE

Ep 016 What Makes A GOOD COACH


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Let’s take a look at what makes a really good coach:

Are you an athlete? Then what follows will help you figure out how your own coach measures up. It will give you some valuable information that will allow you to more intelligently evaluate how your coach conducts him/herself in relation to you and your teammates. In this way it will give you the ability to better “reality test” the coach-athlete situation that you currently find yourself in. It's very often quite difficult for an athlete to really know if there’s something wrong with him or the coach. Most often in emotional coach-athlete interactions, the athlete typically comes away feeling badly about him/herself. Hopefully the information that follows will help you better understand what is really going on and help you not blame yourself for things that you shouldn’t.

Are you a parent of an athlete? This discussion will help you get a good idea of what to look for when you shop around for a coach for your child. Such as: How do the better coaches conduct themselves? How do they treat their athletes? How do they interact with you as the parent? How do they deal with winning and losing? How do the better coaches deal with mistakes and failures? Parents need to be educated as much as possible about their child’s sport and coaches in order to help their son or daughter have the best and happiest experience possible.

Are you a coach? Perhaps this discussion will help you get a better sense of how the finest in this profession conduct themselves. If you yourself want to coach ‘legendary’, than you need to understand which behaviors and characteristics will best motivate and inspire your players. You also need to ponder over the following questions: 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? If you so choose, then you can use this list to begin to work on making yourself that much better as a professional.

Connect with Frederick Entenmann, Bestselling Author & Consultant at MIND BODY LIFE;
(614) 827-5427, [email protected], FrederickEntenmann.com or Skype frederick.entenmann8
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