Coaching Philosophy
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Philosophy Paper
Due: July 5, 2023
Inevitably the most difficult thing for any sportsman to face is the realization that in the
future they will be unable to participate in what they love to do. Whether that's a sport,
cheerleading, being into wellness (both mental and physical), or even business. It is a reality of
life that your abilities will come to an end sometime in the future, and unless you happen to be
one of the fortunate handful whom plays on a professional level your physique’s year of wellness
will not endure indefinitely. This knowledge is highly important to my coaching perspective. I've
generally been enthusiastic about everything I enjoy doing given that I support investing all of
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myself into anything I'm passionate about. This is also vital when becoming a coach (the passion
you have for coaching). The five most significant elements that I consider while developing a
general coaching framework and ideology are as follows:
1. Motivation, 2. Self- Disclosure, 3.
Skills Acquisition, 4. Time Management and 5. Accountability.
Motivation.
Although you may have all the knowledge and skills in the world if you do
not have the motivation to put it to use then you won’t be a great coach. Coaching requires much
of your time, early mornings, late nights, and long evenings. As a coach, you have to motivate
your mentees to do better, to keep going, and to be confident in their abilities. In order to
motivate your mentees or athletes as I should say then you have to be motivated to coach, and by
setting that example you can inspire your players. Inspire them to challenge themselves, to do
better, to practice every chance they get, and to be passionate about the sport as much as you are
in coaching them in the sport. And in doing so your team will be successful, your team is only as
good as you make it. In high school I played soccer, I trained at home every chance I got and
trained before school if I had time and after during practice. My coach however only put his time
and effort into after-school practice, so our team was as good as they thought they could be. Our
coach didn’t push us to practice and prioritized everything else except the game when it came
down to it. Then when my siblings joined that same soccer team, they had a different coach and
he trained and worked them after school, on the weekends, and in the afternoons and they did
amazing (way better than my team in the previous years). The point of this story is that I wished
my coach had motivated me to do better, motivation plays a huge part in your team's
performance. Although my sibling's team was smaller, they still managed to win every game for
the first time in a long time. Motivation is what gets us out of bed each morning and knowing
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your players get out of bed each morning excited to be coached by you can be quite rewarding in
the long run because of the impact you’ve made in their lives.
Self-Disclosure.
How can you expect your players to trust you if they barely know
anything about you except information everyone already knows? (Successful Coaching,
Martens) When you self-disclose information, you wouldn’t normally tell others unless they are
close to you to your players then you get to build a connection that makes them feel not alone. As
a coach, you have to decide how much you want to disclose and what’s considered appropriate.
Information like what you struggled with when you played the sport, and how you overcame
these obstacles. By being willing to disclose personal information about yourself to your team,
you show your team you care and that you trust them enough to do so. Your team can’t depend
on you as a coach if they do not know you, so it is very important that you connect with your
team. When disclosing yourself to your team you are opening the opportunity for your athletes to
commit to you as much as you commit to coaching them. As a coach you have to be willing to
pen yourself up to your athletes, so they know how passionate you are in making sure they are
successful for not only your benefit but for theirs as well. Not sharing your feelings doesn’t
consider you a powerful person. Resilience is the courage to take chances in your connection
with your trainees and reveal oneself to establish a stronger bond. Self-disclosure in this manner
entails being true, transparent, and genuine, first to oneself and then to those you coach. Your
players are unlikely to disclose their ideas and emotions to you if you fail to adequately self-
disclose.
Skills acquisition.
Knowledge is crucial in almost every part of your life. It is particularly
apparent in the employment world.
When you're beginning your career, looking for a
subsequent advancement, or just beginning out, learning new abilities is an important
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element of your career growth.
In order to properly nurture potential and transfer knowledge,
coaches must be cognizant of the thesis advanced by athletics researchers, which states that the
trip every youthful player takes on their way to competence is divided into separate phases. In
order to successfully coach your athletes to successfully go through skill acquisition, one must
coach with empathy, and empathize with your player's struggles and concerns for their future in
the sport. A coach should stay calm under pressure, if they handle stress well then, they are able
to teach their trainees how to support themselves under pressure. Skill acquisition in coaching
helps athletes see their potential outside of the sport in high school for instance or just as a
hobby, it could encourage them to seek it out as a profession. Being a good listener as well helps
your trainees feel heard in the passion they have for the sport, which you could use to make them
more successful by putting their passion to use. As a coach, you could also help your trainee
improve their skill acquisition by focusing on their talents and helping them improve their
weaknesses that way they are growing and being challenged by you. Always communicate
respectfully and encouragingly that way your trainees will go to you when they need support or
advice. The goal of coaching is to help your trainees enhance their abilities through unlocking
their fullest potential. It assists people in learning instead of educating or informing them.
Finally, skill acquisition fills the separation among coaching research, treatment, physical fitness,
and healing.
Time Management.
Time management is very important when coaching your team
because you have to time manage time for practice, time for one-on-one discussions for players
who need it, time manage games to help improve your player's abilities and help your trainees
learn how to time manage their time outside of your help. If you succeed as a coach teaching
your trainees how to time manage then they will be able to time manage when they put in
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practice when they make time to cater to their physique, how to manage any other hobbies or
family time, and when to rest up. Learning how to time manage overall in your adult life,
benefits you in the long run to time manage everything else in your life. You can coach time
management skills by working with your trainees in learning what’s most important for them, by
discussing how to handle smaller tasks that can be time-consuming, by learning how to praise
oneself for small achievements (sort of like a milestone checklist), do some of their tasks with
them to help motivate them to keep this same routine, team your trainees in two’s to keep them
accountable and ask them how they are doing every week with the new change. Many people
believe that a time management coach merely assists them to stay on top of their spare time and
thus become more productive, but they provide much more. They assist individuals with
identifying priorities and eliminating unnecessary work. That allows you to complete tasks in
lesser time as well as with fewer worries. Time management helps teach your athletes to not
procrastinate, be productive, enhance concentration, setting goals and priorities. Coaching your
athletes to time manage may help them build efficient time management routines, overcome
problems, and achieve their goals in life and work. Overall teaching your trainees to time
manage is very important in their sports careers to set them up for success.
Accountability.
Coaching accountability is especially important to trainees because it
includes an additional individual who has a genuine stake in your achievement, the
accountability part of coaching is a strong instrument for change and developments. As a coach
the primary objective is a trainee's achievement and satisfaction, therefore keeping them
accountable for making decisive actions toward their objectives. As a coach, you teach your
trainees that accountability entails accepting ownership of their conduct and holding themselves
accountable to criteria. Keeping me accountable helps me to keep going with my success even
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when I’m busy, for instance, I have a gym trainer and she checks in with me every week to see
my progress. Sometimes I’m busy with schoolwork and can’t go to the gym at my usual time so
I’ll ask her to check in with me later, that way she can remind me that I need to still go to the
gym. That helps keep me accountable and my coach is setting me up for success by checking in
and reminding me if I can’t fulfill the task right away. Teaching your trainees to keep themselves
accountable helps build their performance because of the goals they achieve through
accountability and improve their character because they are not blaming everyone else for the
mistakes, they have made that’s contributed to their failed success.
In conclusion, passion plays a huge role in mastering these 5 topics in coaching. Motivate
your trainees to help them be confident in themselves and succeed. Self-disclose to help build a
sense of trust and connection with your trainees. Help improve their skill acquisitions to
challenge and improve your trainee's performance. Time managing helps your trainees knock
important tasks out of the way and set themselves up for success. And last but not least
accountability, helps your trainees keep themselves accountable for the decisions they make for
their success path. Successfully coaching these topics will surely help make a change and impact
in your players lives.
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