Concentrating on weaknesses or strengths

Here’s a question.

Do you spend most of your time improving your team’s weaknesses? Or do you focus on your strengths?

The question may come down to your priorities. Are you in a mainly developmental or mainly competitive situation? If your concentration is on development, then working on weaknesses will likely be your main focus. The question really is more aimed at competitive situations.

As coaches our natural educational inclination tends to be toward wanting to “fix” things. That may not be the best way to go, though.

This subject is the basis for one of the chapters in Volleyball Coaching Wizards – Wizard Wisdom, the second book in that series.

John Forman

John is a volleyball coach, performance director, and coach educator with 20+ years of experience across the NCAA (all three divisions plus junior college), university and club volleyball in the UK, professional coaching in Sweden, and juniors clubs. He has also served as a visiting coach with national team, professional club, and juniors programs in multiple countries.

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