{"id":13053,"date":"2015-07-22T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T08:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=13053"},"modified":"2015-07-22T09:00:26","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T08:00:26","slug":"develop-these-habits-to-be-a-better-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/22\/develop-these-habits-to-be-a-better-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Develop these habits to be a better coach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A while ago I commented on a blog post which discussed 10 things that lead to coaching failure<\/a>. The same author has a related post<\/a> looking at the habits successful coaches develop. They are loosely based on the ideas put forth in the book [amazon text=The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People&asin=B00GOZV3TM] by Stephen Covey (which is definitely worth a read).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are as follows (paraphrased):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Make training harder than competition<\/li>
  2. Learn and develop at a faster rate than your athletes<\/li>
  3. Make your rate of learning faster than your opposition<\/li>
  4. Develop your creative thinking abilities<\/li>
  5. Coach the individual<\/li>
  6. Ensure that each player out-prepares their opposition<\/li>
  7. Develop training plans which optimize impact on each player<\/li>
  8. Make training as game-like as possible<\/li>
  9. Adopt an integrated approach to talent development<\/li>
  10. Lead<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    The first entry is something I have long lived by, and I think #8 has been pretty well covered<\/a>. Notice the heavy focus on individual athletes. Also see how many relate to continuous learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    I think #4 deserves a little extra attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    You may not think of it this way, but coaching is a creative endeavor. At least it is when done well. I’m not talking about whether coaching is an art or a science, or some combination. It’s much more simple than that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Coaching is about identifying a need and figuring out to meet it. That almost always involves trying to work around limitations or constraints. It’s creative problem solving. An example of this is dynamic practice planning<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Want to become a better coach? These ten habits could help you do just that. A lot of it has to do with continuous learning and individual focus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[171,191,306,331,435],"class_list":["post-13053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-volleyball-coach-development","tag-habits","tag-leadership","tag-success","tag-volleyball-training-plan","tag-volleyball-practice-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}