Coaching a team can be very challenging. But with these tips, it could be easier.
Steps
Step 1. Find some free time
A workaholic couldn't realistically be a full-time coach. Take note of the commitment it takes to train. If you give up after a day, then you show your worst side. Don't train if you can't.
Step 2. Learn every strategy and detail of your sport
It will help you know what a "home run" is if you coach a baseball team.
Step 3. Read training books, talk to other coaches, make contacts
There are other essential qualities that an ideal coach should have besides mere education, competence and experience. The following are some of the important steps required to perfect your coaching profession. The most important include:
Part 1 of 3: Specializing as a Trainer
Step 1. Get the educational qualifications, training and experience you want
Step 2. Make full use of the guidance for effective self-management
For example, the requirements of health, career, money management, and a whole assortment of critical and adaptive skills need to be honed.
Step 3. Learn to develop relationships and manage them right
Step 4. Refine the art of building a learning atmosphere
Step 5. Learn to focus on goals and manage emergencies
Step 6. Provide valuable service and high quality sessions
Part 2 of 3: Best Preparing
Step 1. Always go through a session with clear ideas, to make sure you are 100% present and to be able to fully focus on your athletes
Free your mind of any thoughts, opinions, evaluations, prejudices and experiences. This amplifies your listening skills and the ability to process the information you are giving and receiving without interference and helps you to accommodate their needs
Step 2. Review previous sessions (if any) to the current one
Make a note of the results you want to get from the next session. It may not all go according to plan, but it keeps you from getting confused or distracted in the middle of a training session.
- Do not allow yourself or the athletes distractions during training.
- Remove any potential distractions such as misbehavior or unruly spectators, portable devices, cell phones and computers.
Step 3. Make sure your athlete learns something new every time
It always has to take something positive out of the interaction with you. You need to have confirmation from them, so don't assume everything went well.
Step 4. Explain the upcoming sessions or steps or actions they should learn from training to achieve their goals
Step 5. Learn how to stay focused and keep this list in mind, especially if self-management is often overlooked or taken for granted
By assessing your professional expectations and personal performance levels, you will do what it takes to stay fit and enthusiastic.
Step 6. Look for a job
If you are a teacher, ask if a coaching position is open at your school. If not, search the classifieds.
- Don't be afraid to apply for a managerial role in person. If you get rejected, then try somewhere else. In larger cities, there are many potential teams to contact.
- Search the internet to find new opportunities.
- Accept any coaching job. Don't expect top-notch work right away. Sure, it makes sense to hope to get that job, but he also agrees to start as a deputy.
- Start from the bottom. Team managers first need to see what you're made of. They need to make sure you know your stuff, and that the players are safe.
Part 3 of 3: Practice Your Management Skills
Step 1. Work on the following skills as you strive to become the perfect coach:
- The ability to motivate.
- The ability to make good decisions.
- The ability to communicate effectively. Use easily understood language at a level suitable for the interlocutor to eliminate unnecessary repetition and minimize misunderstandings.
- The ability to provide personal support without creating a sense of fulfillment that could lead to arrogance. Athletes must be satisfied with their performance but must never lose the desire to grow.
Step 2. Recognize your strengths and be smart enough to ask for help when needed or to delegate
Step 3. Pay attention to every detail
Anticipate and anticipate questions.
- Reassure athletes when they do something positive and cheer them up when concentration or commitment drops.
- Watch learning take shape by paying attention.
Step 4. Know that training is about the athlete, and must be essentially athlete-based, so in that sense, you shouldn't feel like the boss
Have the humility to recognize the merits of each one. It is immensely important to you, the coach, to understand the athlete's problems and be supportive
Step 5. Adopt appropriate techniques, proportionate to the needs of the athletes
Trying to force them to respect the coach's personal style to increase their performance may not be the best route.
Step 6. Play video games in "coach mode" or "manager"
Write game patterns and new strategies in your spare time. Keep a notebook with your future plans.
Step 7. Know your team
- Learn ALL player names as soon as possible. Find out each one's favorite nickname (eg Teo for Matteo, Edo for Edoardo…).
- Learn their strengths and weaknesses, record your thoughts in the notebook.
- Work on their strengths and try to improve the areas where they are weakest. Be friendly with your team. Nobody wants to take orders from a grumpy person.
- Know your staff. It applies to any coaching role. Being friendly will make you either level up or have happier assistants (depending on the job you get).
- Don't be afraid to share your ideas with the boss, and consider any ideas in case the boss is you.
Step 8. Teach your players new techniques
Step 9. Teach your players ways to get out of trouble
- Warm up before each game.
- Manage the matches!
- Use all the above steps to your advantage.
- Know what to do in case of an injury.
- Memorize all patterns.
- Don't just sit around the whole game. Take the time to congratulate a player who has done something right, and to reassure someone in case of a mistake by telling them that it's just a game after all.
Step 10. Understand that winning isn't everything
There will always be a "next season". But, anyway, try to make your mark. It will make your work more stable.
Keep trying! Once you have coached a team of children, you may be called upon to coach teenagers, and so on
Step 11. Keep climbing this mountain consistently and one day you may find yourself among the pros
Advice
- Remember that most of the players are there to have fun.
- Don't let training fill your life. Make time for other things.
- Bring a regulation with you. It's a good way to convince the referees without getting kicked out.
- Don't antagonize or argue with the referees unnecessarily. You will be a bad example to the team if you get kicked out and leave your assistants in charge.
- Don't punish bad performance. Take a moment to think about what you would like to say and weigh the words. Does a 12-year-old really want to hear you yell at him for making a big mistake? A word of encouragement at the right time and constant positive reinforcement is what it takes to improve the athlete's performance.
- Study your opponents. Find out which players are fit and which are the weak links, and train your athletes to recognize them and turn them into a technical advantage.
- Learn any special championship rules. These special rules will usually decrease as you age and level.
Warnings
- Training full-time may lead you to quit any previous jobs or hobbies.
- Being a coach is a job that takes a lot of time.
- Being incredibly rude and inappropriate will cause you to lose your job.
