{"id":21953,"date":"2019-05-08T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=21953"},"modified":"2019-05-08T09:00:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T13:00:36","slug":"remember-what-matters-to-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/08\/remember-what-matters-to-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember what matters to them"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I reviewed Coaching Volleyball For Dummies<\/a> previously. While I have real issues with the book overall, there were some useful nuggets. Here’s one of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The worst measuring stick you can use to judge your team’s progress \u2014and your coaching abilities \u2014is your win-loss record. Instead, focus on whether kids show up at practice with smiles on their faces because they can’t wait to take the court with you and whether they learn and improve skills at every practice. After all, these experiences make up the true barometer of coaching prowess.” <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, I’m not going to suggest that coaches aren’t judged on winning and losing. They certainly are – fairly or unfairly<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All that stuff is external, though. What the players care about most is their own experience. Is it positive?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As coaches we have our priorities<\/a> for each practice. Above all of that, though, we have to think about the experience the players will have during the session. Will it make them eager to come back next time? Or will they walk away unfulfilled and unsatisfied. That’s not just a question of having the right attitude and\/or energy. It’s also a question of how we plan things out<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keep that in mind every single day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Above and beyond all our coaching priorities we must also account for the priorities of the players when planning and running our sessions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[252,331,435],"class_list":["post-21953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-volleyball-coaching","tag-player-psychology","tag-volleyball-training-plan","tag-volleyball-practice-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21953","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=21953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}