It’s that time of year again. New Year’s Day is when so many of us make resolutions for the year ahead. Do you have any where your volleyball coaching is concerned?<\/p>\n
I will admit that I’m not really one for setting resolutions in this way. I understand that people do it as part of a look-back\/look-ahead reflective process. Why, though, should flipping the calendar over to a new year make me suddenly want to do this or accomplish that. It tends to take things out of context and make it all a bit artificial. It also can be vague or overly ambitious. That’s probably why so many resolutions fail rather quickly – often with negative consequences.<\/p>\n
I personally prefer to take a continuous development view of things and make resolutions in a proper context. Let’s take a coaching example – blocker training. It’s all well and good to say I want to get better at teaching players how to block. What happens, though, if I’ve got a team of short players? No matter how good I get at blocker training it isn’t going to help them. All the time I spend on my blocking development is time I could put to better use on something that could help the team. I could work on defense or running a faster tempo offense. See what I mean about the context?<\/p>\n
Here’s a personal example.<\/p>\n
Back in 2013-14 my season focus was improved team and player communication. In particular, I wanted to work better with the Exeter university women’s team. It was, for me, a key area of improvement from the prior year. I made a concerted effort to keep it top of mind in the new season. I solicited feedback from the team captain along the way. Heading into the term break, I also surveyed the players for their input. My hope was that I could use the results to continue improving on my ability to communicate with and motivate them, both as individuals and as a group.<\/p>\n
So where do you want to improve your coaching and what are you planning on doing about it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A good volleyball coach knows that they must continue to grow and develop in their craft. Resolutions can be part of that process. What are yours?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[107,112,125],"class_list":["post-1623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-r","category-volleyball-coach-development","tag-coaching-philosophy","tag-volleyball-coaching-skills","tag-communication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623","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=1623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}