{"id":89782,"date":"2022-12-06T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=89782"},"modified":"2022-12-06T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T14:00:00","slug":"can-a-good-coach-succeed-at-any-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/06\/can-a-good-coach-succeed-at-any-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a good coach succeed at any level?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A reader left a comment on the Level does not determine coaching value!<\/a> post that reads:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are truly a good coach, you can take any team and have success with them (no matter the level).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have mixed feelings about this statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the one hand, I do strongly believe that coaches coach<\/a>, no matter who is in front of them. A good coach is about developing whatever players and\/or team they’re working with at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, as I suggest in the Judging coaching greatness<\/a> post, coaches do have niches in which they tend to operate best. For example, a coach who is really good at teaching fundamentals to a bunch of 12-year-olds new to the sport isn’t the same as a coach who can get a team of professional players to the league championship. The skill sets involved are different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is success?<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

And this is where the definition of success comes in. There isn’t just one, after all. We need to know which one applies in a given situation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s take the example of a coach who is really good at driving player enthusiasm. Players love playing for them. A coach like that can likely have success at any level if that means a happy squad. If, however, success for a given team means winning the championship, then a happy group isn’t enough. If that coach doesn’t have the additional skills required, then ultimately they won’t succeed by that metric.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And you can flip that around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I once had a conversation with a former schoolmate of mine from both high school and college well after our school days were over. She was an All-State player on the girls’ team in high school and an All-American in college. We both had the same coach in high school because she coached both the girls and boys at times. Her programs – especially on the girls side – were consistently successful in terms of winning a lot, including state titles. That schoolmate – who went on to do some high school coaching herself – noted a shortcoming of that coach, however. Basically, she said that while our old coach was very good at teaching the game, she wasn’t great at skill development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, success in one area, but perhaps not in another. That’s why I think the quote above is a bit tricky to simply agree with, even though I like the spirit of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can a good coach really be successful at whatever level they coach? I would contend that probably depends on the definition of success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[112],"class_list":["post-89782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-volleyball-coaching","tag-volleyball-coaching-skills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89782","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=89782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}