Ep. 15: The 5 Habits Of Effective Coaches

Between The Posts Podcast: Keepers | Coaches | Parents | Soccer

Topic: The 5 habits of truly effective Coaches

What are the things that great coaches do every day that makes them great? Is it their ability to inspire, to educate, or to Motivate? On today’s episode of Between the Posts, we will tackle the 5 habits of effective coaches giving you a few things to think about as you prepare for your next coaching season.

1. Make training more challenging and more demanding than the game you face each week.

• Great coaches realize that competition is not the time to find out where your athletes’ physical and mental limits are. Training needs to be more challenging and more demanding – physically, mentally, technically, tactically, emotionally – than the competition your athletes are preparing for.

2. Never cease to Learn and develop as a coach faster than the players you’re coaching.

• Great coaches realize that success is a moving target and to stay relevant they must be committed to life-long learning, honest personal and professional evaluation and continuous improvement.

3. Accelerate your rate of learning faster than your opposition.

• The Internet has ensured that there are no secrets in our sport. Everyone knows what you know. Anyone can get anything, anytime, anywhere and for free. Everyone is learning something every day. Great coaches understand this and strive to accelerate their rate of learning faster than their opposing coaches.

4. Enhance your creative thinking skills.

• Creativity is the defining difference between good coaches and great coaches. Ironically, creativity is the one thing that we are robbing our players of in youth sports.

5. Coach individuals – even in team sports.

• There are no true team sports left anymore. Every significant moment in every sport boils down to “person vs person” and with performance analysis now at the level of millimeters and fractions of seconds, every athlete’s strengths and weaknesses are well known by their opposition.

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