Being available for your players
You don't always need to have meetings with your players. Sometimes all that matters is that they know you're available.
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communcation skills
Your players aren’t you
A real challenge faced by former players who get into coaching is developing the realization that your players aren't you.
What does letting them make mistakes look like?
We want to encourage players to take chances in order to help them grow and develop, but how do we handle them making the inevitable errors?
Talking stats with players
Some coaches wonder if they should share stats with their players. A more important consideration is how they use and talk about them.
Knowledge of performance and feedback
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.
Key coaching capabilities
Here's a list of coaching qualities we should be looking to develop and expand upon if we want to be the best coaches we can be.
Coaching the current generation
Here's my advice for being successful coaching the current generation of athletes. It's pretty simple and to the point - and hopefully not a big surprise.
A player’s perspective on better coaching
Here, according to an athlete, are five ways coaches can be more effective communicators, get more out of their teams, and be better role models.
Be a better coach – 3 things you can do
Some academic research into top performing coaches offers up three areas coaches can work on to make themselves better and more effective.