I think in today’s current, fast paced, everyone striving to be better life you must posses certain skills to be a successful coach. First, patience, with the entire team striving to be better than everyone else you need to be patient with them so that you can instill some valuable life lessons like that winning and being better isn’t the only thing. Second, energy, the energy to keep up with your team who is trying to be better so they are moving at a much faster pace then that of the old coach and team. Third, wisdom, the wisdom to understand that a loss is just a loss and that and entire season of losses is just a loss. There are much bigger things in life to worry about and there is more than just winning in that life. Fourth and finally, friendship, today’s players need more than just someone to guide them in there sport.
As a coach with a struggling or losing team you must be able to keep the team together. The team is struggling and they are just as upset as you but you can’t show that you are upset. The coach is the strongest part of the team. Only great coaches can keep your team encouraged while they are losing. Being able to teach your team from losses is very important. A team has to learn from what they did wrong in each game nad even though that is hard it must be done. I know of a team that spent a year losing almost every game. The very next year that coach brought them from a 6-30 team to a 28-8 team. Not bad for only filling three more spots on your line-up of 15. Teaching from losses is also a good way to battle team complacency after a very successful year. A coach can use the losses of the past to remind the team that it could ha
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