{"id":13021,"date":"2015-07-09T09:09:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T08:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=13021"},"modified":"2015-07-09T09:09:16","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T08:09:16","slug":"coaching-leadership-differences-between-the-genders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/09\/coaching-leadership-differences-between-the-genders\/","title":{"rendered":"Coaching leadership differences between the genders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During my <a href=\"http:\/\/volleyballcoachingwizards.com\/?utm_source=CoachingVB&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=post\">Volleyball Coaching Wizards<\/a> conversations I&#8217;ve spoken with coaches who have worked with both male and female players. I&#8217;ve always made a point of asking each of them how they approach the two genders. Is there any difference in their coaching? What&#8217;s been interesting is that many have responded that they don&#8217;t really change anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the early influences on my own coaching was Anson Dorrance. He&#8217;s the long-time women&#8217;s soccer coach at the University of North Carolina. He started off on the men&#8217;s side and for a while coached both men and women. As a result, he has some very interesting observations on the differences in leading the two groups. They tend to disagree with the &#8220;I treat everyone the same&#8221; idea. Check out this discussion of his on the subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"UNC&#039;s Anson Dorrance on Coaching Men and Women\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QY8uB2cQVV4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the things I can&#8217;t help but wonder about coaches who claim they are the same coaching male athletes and female ones is if there really are differences they just don&#8217;t recognize. I know that I am different coaching men than coaching women. It&#8217;s not an intentional thing for the most part. I don&#8217;t consciously say I&#8217;m going to have this demeanor on the court with the men and this other demeanor with the women. It just sort of happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listening to Anson, the other thing I got to wondering was if coaches tend to niche themselves based on whether their personality better suits working with one gender or the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along these lines, I strongly recommend the book <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/book-review-gender-competition-kathy-deboer\/\">Gender and Competition<\/a>, especially if you work with female athletes. I also ranted a bit <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/rant-on-gender-coaching-differences\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many coaches say they don&#8217;t really approach coaching female athletes differently than male athletes. Is that really the case? 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