Key to Coaching Success: Administration
Admin work doesn't get a lot of attention in coaching. If you get it wrong, though, it can have a big impact on your success.
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Coaching skills
Key to Coaching Success: Competition Management
The management of the competition phase probably isn't the biggest driver coaching success, but it definitely matters - especially when margins are narrow.
Key to Coaching Success: Player & Team Management
Your relationship with your players - both individually and collectively - can be a massive influence on your success as a coach.
Key to Coaching Success: Training
If your training sessions produce better results than the competitions' - even if only by just a little each time - your chances of success go up.
Key to Coaching Success: Team Organization
A coach who is skillful in team organization is one who gets the absolute most of their personnel. This is a major driver of success in a team sport.
Key to Coaching Success: Talent
The quality, depth, and breadth of players available to the coach go a long way in determining success. So too does the ability to make good selections.
What drives coaching success?
Do you know why Supercoach Sam wins so much? It could be any of a number of factors. Best to understand which one(s) before you try to replicate them.
The influence on those around us
We coaches (should) know how much we can influence those around us, emotionally and otherwise. It's something we also need to teach our players about.
Book Review: The Little Book of Talent by Daniel Coyle
The Little Book of Talent features a bunch of really interesting things to think about as a coach, in a very consumable fashion.