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Things A Coach Should Know: Developing Positive Coaching Attitudes and Behaviours

A coach needs to help develop athletes physically, emotionally, and technically. To do so, a coach must have in-depth sport knowledge, patience, strong communication skills, the ability to motivate and discipline athletes, and skills to serve as a teacher, friend, and counselor. Additionally, a coach must communicate effectively with officials, media, sponsors, and parents. Most importantly, a coach should make athletes feel accepted and help them grow both in their sport and personally.

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Things A Coach Should Know: Developing Positive Coaching Attitudes and Behaviours

A coach needs to help develop athletes physically, emotionally, and technically. To do so, a coach must have in-depth sport knowledge, patience, strong communication skills, the ability to motivate and discipline athletes, and skills to serve as a teacher, friend, and counselor. Additionally, a coach must communicate effectively with officials, media, sponsors, and parents. Most importantly, a coach should make athletes feel accepted and help them grow both in their sport and personally.

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THINGS A COACH SHOULD KNOW

A coach needs to know that his/her job is to help develop the athlete physically, emotionally
and technically. Therefore a coach needs to be someone who

a) Know much more than just the sport and its rules
b) Is patient and is a good communicator
c) Enjoy working with people
d) Is able to motivate the athlete
e) Is able to provide discipline and direction, (knowing when o reward and when to deny
the athlete some form of pleasure)

A coach plays many roles, among them are teacher, friend counsellor and to guide t he
athlete.

A coach also needs to be able to communicate effectively with officials, media, sponsors and
parents.

MAKING THE ATHLETE

The coach is often the most important person to the athlete. The coach helps the
athlete grow and develop in the sport and personally, remember the athlete has his/her
reasons for participating. Success coaches know how to match the needs of the athlete
and objectives of the programme, thus the athlete participates fully and develop skills.
The coach needs to make the athlete feel good about themselves, they need to feel
they are accepted as people regardless of their sport performance.

DEVELOPING POSITIVE COACHING ATTITUDES AND


BEHAVIOURS
A good coach is guided by personal values the influense why and how they do
things. Values are what we believe in , the core of what we hold true, they make us
who we war. All

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