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How To Be A Successful Coach
For some, a coach’s success is measured in the number of checks he or she has in the win/loss column. For others, a coach’s success is measured in the number of happy smiles on his or her players’ faces.
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Coaching For Success
It is all too common to hear a boisterous sideline coach screaming paragraphs of what a player did incorrectly rather than offering praise for those accomplishments done correctly.
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Coaching For Success
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It is all too common to hear a boisterous sideline coach screaming paragraphs of what a player did incorrectly rather than offering praise for those accomplishments done correctly. And it is this level of reprimand that supports the 70-75% drop out rate from organized sports by the age of 13. Certainly other factors, such as newly found social issues, add to youth sports drop out, however, drop out is directly related to the time when a youngster no longer has “fun” playing a sport. This can easily be averted if coaching was better defined to teach more than to coach. More precisely, a coach should “teach for success, rather than coach for failure.”  Not every child can be the team’s leading scorer, not every child can be the team’s leading rebounder, and not every child can have the league’s best batting average. It is the duty of the coach to find that one skill, that one intangible that each athlete brings to the team. Then when it is discovered, he/she must expand upon that talent so that each player leaves the court or field feeling the sense of accomplishment, not the frustrations of failure.
Perhaps your team has a player with minimal offensive skills, but he/she is a good listener. Maybe this player is one of your taller players. Then why not introduce him/her to the “sixth” man, the baseline. You can teach this player that when playing defense near the low post it is his/her job to make sure whenever an offensive player tries to get around him/her along the baseline; by simply placing his foot onto the baseline, that offensive player now has nowhere to go except out of bounds. Yes, this “new” defensive standout can became best friends with the “sixth” man and force a turnover, possibly even save the two points that allows his/her team to win by one point. And when this happens, you make special note of this great accomplishment in front of the entire team. Now, your new defensive standout has just gained a new level of confidence and has benefited tremendously from your “teaching for success.”
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