What's a coach's role in a match? Should they provide feedback or focus on motivation? The skills is knowing what the situation demands.

A mistake I often see coaches make is providing players with instructions for a drill or game, then providing feedback on everything but.

If we want our players to get the most out of training they must understand what we want from them and get useful, specific feedback.

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The level of your players should influence the type of feedback you give them in terms of whether you go more positive or more negative.

A team-building exercise resulted in my getting a bunch of positive feedback from the Midwestern State players, and the other coaches.

What your say to your players isn't the only source of feedback they get, and in some cases it shouldn't even been the main source.

You should probably spend a bit less time thinking about what drills you will use to teach a certain skill and more about player feedback.

It seems to me that the area of court awareness in volleyball is one which suffers a bit from a lack of specific feedback.

A volleyball coach recently asked for some ideas on avoiding their players becoming dependent on them for feedback, to which I provide some thoughts.