Coach Strengths And Weaknesses Essay

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Being a master coach can be difficult if I don’t accept my strengths and weaknesses. I’m unable to better myself as a coach if I don’t own my weaknesses and work to fix them, this would be a terrible work ethic and unacceptable behavior of a coach. I would be contradicting myself if I told and athlete to work on their weaknesses and I didn’t work on mine. Coaching is a two-way street, no matter the age group. I believe my strengths are; meeting my athletes prior to the season and setting rules and to know what will happen if the rules are broken. I ask my seniors more of rules and expectations they want to set for the season, as I see them as my leaders. Although, I see my seniors as leaders, this does not mean my younger athletes have no say, everyone will …show more content…

I want my athletes to strive to be the best and to never settle. I want my athletes to be the hardest working person in whatever their career …show more content…

This is like life. Every employer has a yearly meeting with their employees to tell them what they are doing right and what they are doing wrong, but how to fix it and ways to fix it. This will be a fix that can take time watching my athlete and learning how they react to constructive criticism. Learning from my one-on-one’s will help me in my second weakness. My fourth weakness is offering advice to my athlete’s whether it is in education, athletics, or careers. My weakness is not in listening to my athletes, it’s the advice. I’m not saying I’m not qualified to give advice or to be a coach. Being a young coach and giving advice is going to be tough because I still look for guidance and advice from my past coaches, and co-workers. This will be better over time when I learn from mistakes, or solid choices I have