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Coaching Within Yourself
By Coach Kip | June 28, 2007
What is coaching within yourself? Basically stated you can’t coach like someone else. You need to be you. If you try to be someone else while you are coaching everyone else can see it, everyone else notices, and that includes your players.
When you are trying to be someone else you come across as a fake. That is the sin of coaching. You cannot look like a fake, this makes you lose credibility, and this hinders all success as a coach.
You must be yourself. If you are a compassionate person, you can be a great and successful coach being compassionate. Example? Dick Vermeil. No matter what you say about him, being a crybaby comes to mind, you can’t say that he was not a good coach. There was a coach who coached on emotion, and was truly compassionate about his players. But you can’t say that he is not a successful coach.
Are you a perfectionist? Example? Bill Belichick. A total perfectionist, a planner, an organizer, and meticulous about every little detail. Does he do well with the media, or with fans, or with anything that has do to with anything outside of coaching? No. But you can’t say that he is not a successful coach.
Are you a perfect type A personality? Example? Bill Parcels. Is there no other better type A in the world? Takes nothing from anyone. Takes nothing for granted, does not let anyone do anything that he does not approve of first, including his players. But you can’t say that he is not a successful coach.
How about a domineering over bearing put down artist, who is a perfectionist, and leaves nothing to chance? You mean the perfect coach? Vince Lombardi. He had no problems micro managing everything during practice and preparation before a game, no detail was lost to him. And if someone screwed up, you had to face a verbal barrage from him, including an occasional spit in the face. But you can’t say that he is not a successful coach.
What they all had in common was that they coach within themselves. They are who they are, and that is how they coach. The make no bones about it, the make no excuses. They are just who they are.
You need to coach like who you are. There is no one type of personality that is more successful as a coach than any other. Except for one. The one who is fake is not as successful. They are transparent, and not respected nor listened to as a coach.
If you don’t have the respect or the ability to communicate what you want with your players you will not be successful. So, don’t be who you are not. Be your own personality. Take the lessons that you can from other coaches, and make them your own. Don’t try to be like someone. Be yourself.
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