This Course Will Provide a Few Things:
1) Exposure for coaching career paths
2) Development of individual coaching and leadership philosophies and coaching and leadership styles
3) Instruction on how to use your individual style and personality and best practices from coaches and leaders around the world to best lead your own program
4) Improve individual effectiveness by growing them as leaders
I want this course to provide a forum for students to learn about the coaching field, for students to learn how to use their individual personality, skills, and experiences to be leaders of sports teams, and to help students increase their effectiveness by growing as leaders.
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I wasn't 'taught' how to coach until I was a coach, and I now know how blessed I was to have had my first coaching job working for one of the greatest coaches I have ever been around. I only briefly considered a coaching career a possibility for me. When graduating college, he called me offering an assistant position on his coaching staff. I didn't realize it at the time, but what he also offered me an opportunity to go through a three year coaching school through which I learned and grew immensely as coach, a leader, and a man.
This coach taught me the importance of having a vision for every aspect of your program, being diligent in making that vision a reality, and the importance of doing so with energy and enthusiasm. Without him, I don't know if I would even still be a coach, and without learning from him, I know that I would not be nearly as effective as I am.
Even under his great tutelage, it took me years for me to really find myself as a coach and a leader. It took me years to really develop my philosophy of coaching and leadership and it took me years to develop my coaching style. It has taken me even longer to be able to effectively communicate that to potential athletic directors, school principals, school superintendents, players, coaches, and any other stakeholders in a program that I am or am seeking to lead.
I think of the thousands of coaches who might share my story. There aren't a lot of coaching courses out there to advertise the endless career possibilities that come with a coaching career. Engineers, doctors, architects, etc all know exactly what they need to do to pursue their respective careers. High school counselors are great at identifying students' skills and guiding them to college majors and career paths through which they might find post secondary success. I don't think that coaching gets as much of a push as could be because of the lack of course work for the field.
I want this course to provide a forum for students to learn about the coaching field, for students to learn how to use their individual personality, skills, and experiences to be leaders of sports teams, and to help students increase their effectiveness by growing as leaders.
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