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Nature and Concepts (Lesson2)

There are three main coaching styles: autocratic, democratic, and holistic. Autocratic coaching involves the coach making all decisions with little input from players. Democratic coaching involves facilitating decision making and goal setting with athlete input. Holistic coaching, also known as laissez-faire, takes a hands-off approach with little structured training. The core principles of coaching include self-responsibility, awareness, solution focus, and challenge. Effective coaching behaviors can positively influence athletes' motivation, self-esteem, and psychological development. Qualities of a great coach include in-depth sport knowledge, seeking new information, being a motivator, knowing athletes, communicating effectively, listening well, leading by example, and being disciplined.

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Nature and Concepts (Lesson2)

There are three main coaching styles: autocratic, democratic, and holistic. Autocratic coaching involves the coach making all decisions with little input from players. Democratic coaching involves facilitating decision making and goal setting with athlete input. Holistic coaching, also known as laissez-faire, takes a hands-off approach with little structured training. The core principles of coaching include self-responsibility, awareness, solution focus, and challenge. Effective coaching behaviors can positively influence athletes' motivation, self-esteem, and psychological development. Qualities of a great coach include in-depth sport knowledge, seeking new information, being a motivator, knowing athletes, communicating effectively, listening well, leading by example, and being disciplined.

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Nature and Concepts

of Coaching
Lesson 2
Coaching
Styles
1. Autocratic coaching
Autocratic coaching can best be summed up by the
phrase “My way or the highway.” Autocratic
coaches make decisions with little to no input from the
player or players. The coach articulates a vision for
what needs to be accomplished by the players, and the
players are expected to perform
1. Autocratic coaching
Autocratic coaching is win-focused and typically
features inflexible training structures.
This style of coaching works better in
team sports than individual sports, and there is some
evidence that gender plays into how well autocratic
coaching is accepted.
2. Democratic coaching
Democratic coaching is exactly what it sounds
like. Coaches facilitate decision making and goal setting
with input from their athletes instead of dictating to
them. This style of coaching is athlete-centered, and
the athletes shape their own objectives under a
framework outlined by the coach.
2. Democratic coaching
Democratic coaches give a lot of autonomy to
players and teams, who are active collaborators in their
own development and direction.
This style is well-suited to individual sports, like
tennis or track and field events, where individual
athletes have to take a lot of control over
their training style
3. Holistic Coaching
Also known as “laissez-faire” coaching,
this style of coaching is founded on the theory that a
happy team naturally becomes a successful team.
Very little is offered in terms of structured training or
positive feedback.
3. Holistic Coaching
A holistic approach to coaching can encourage an
attitude towards fitness that will help bring a lifetime of
health and happiness to the athlete. 
Coaches need to develop fitness training programs
that will help athletes on the playing field as well as in
life's arena
What are the principles in coaching?
The core principle of coaching is self –responsibility,
or taking ownership of our decisions. We learn better
when we discover things for ourselves rather than when
others tell us. We like to create our own solutions rather
than be told what to do.
Think of a child learning to walk.
The Seven
Principles of
Coaching
Awareness
Awareness is the most common outcome that
coaching delivers and many of the benefits the coachee
receives from it arise from this.
There is a misconception that coaching is about
pushing people, or bullying them, or leading them to
solutions.
Responsibility
The core principle of coaching is self –responsibility,
or taking ownership of our decisions.
We learn better when we discover things for
ourselves rather than when others tell us. We like to
create our own solutions rather than be told what to do.
Responsibility
The coach is in charge of the process, the coachee is
in charge of the content. If the coach gets sucked into
the content, he or she is no longer of any use to the
coachee. Sometimes as coaches we become interested
in the story and then we have to step back and ask
ourselves: is this useful or interesting?
Good coaching should be useful to the coachee rather
than interesting to the coach.
Self-belief
Confidence that we can do something is a key factor
in achieving it. People develop self belief by being
given the space to learn, both through making mistakes
and achieving goals.
When employees are learning a new task, what helps
them is to be left alone to work things out for
themselves, supported by encouragement and role
modelling from others.
Blame-free
We can’t learn to walk without falling over. In a
coaching culture, mistakes are viewed as learning
experiences, not reasons to look for scapegoats.
Coachees are likely to learn as much from the actions
they have not completed as those that they have and the
coach is there neither to form an opinion on what is
right or wrong for the coachee, nor to measure the
coachee’s life against the coach’s own yardstick.
Solution focus
When we dwell on a problem, it gets bigger. When
we focus on a solution, the problem becomes
manageable and we find more energy to deal with it.
Think of a problem you may have – it could be small,
like losing something temporarily, or something much
more serious. Now think for a minute about the
problem, not the solution.
Challenge
Most of us like to be challenged and stretched within
a supportive and encouraging environment.
If we aim higher than is absolutely necessary, it is
easier to hit the mark we wanted in the first place and
quite likely, even higher than that.
Action
Coaching uncovers new perspectives and awareness.
In this way, coaches gain new insight, which leads to
more options, which in turn lead to a desire to take
action and change.
Coaches ensure that this energy is channeled into
action and a change of habits
Coaching
Behavior in
Sports
Coaching behaviours have been shown to
influence athletes' self-esteem, motivation, and
performance anxiety, attitudes toward
their sport experience, peer relationships,
burnout, psychological skills development,
physical well-being, and sport attrition
Behaviors are what people see. By
defining coaching through behaviors, we are able to
present clearly what great coaching looks like through
the eyes of the participant. 
Behaviors also provide a connection to the
knowledge and skills required to help enhance a
person's experience or performance.
Qualities of a
Great Sports
Coach
• Knows the Sport. To be able to teach effectively
the coach must have an in-depth understanding of
the sport from the fundamental skills to advanced tactics and
strategy.
• Seeks out New Information.
• A Motivator.
• Knows the Athlete.
• Effective Communicator.
• Good Listener.
• Disciplined.
• Leads by Example

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