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What is the key to developing a philosophy of coaching? Right Ans - getting
to know yourself
What does a coaching philosophy consist of? Right Ans - major objectives
and your beliefs or principles that help you achieve your objectives
Why evaluate decisions about your principles? Right Ans - favorable
evaluations strengthen principles, while unfavorable evaluations indicate that
you need to search for different principles
What does philosophy mean? Right Ans - the means to the pursuit of
wisdom
What are the two main taks to develop a useful coaching philosophy? Right
Ans - 1 - develop greater self-awareness, and to decide what your objectives
are in coaching
What is your ideal self? Right Ans - the person you would like to be - it
represents your values, your sense of right and wrong
What is your public self? Right Ans - the image you believe others have of
you. yo want others to believe certain things about you so they love and
respect you
what is your real self? Right Ans - the sum of the subjective thoughts,
feelings, and needs that you see as being the authentic you. it is constantly
changing.
what is important about self disclosure with coaching? Right Ans - deciding
how much of yourself you will share with your athletes. Some coaches want to
remain etched to be good taskmasters, others disagree and think this
detachment hurts the team.
What is societies main objectives in sports? Right Ans - primarily to help
young people develop physically, psychologically, and socially. society expects
, the coach to accept development as the number one objective. but evidence
supports that society really values winning the most.
Coaches main objectives in sports? Right Ans - to win, to help the young
have fun, to help them develop physically, psychologically, and socially
whats different about societies objectives and coaches objectives in sports?
Right Ans - one may place a more important value on winning, or
development of character may be more important to the coach. its important
for the program and coach to have the same objectives
Whats the difference between recreational and competitive sports? Right
Ans - recreational sports have the short term objectives of having fun and
learning the game, with winning being a secondary objective. competitive
sports have short term objectives of wining and performing well, with fun as a
secondary objective
whats the motto that this book supports about winning? Right Ans -
athletes first, winning second
what is the appropriate perspective to winning, according to this book?
Right Ans - the emphasis of a coach should not be on the winning itself but on
striving to win
what does making an ethical decision help an individual develop? Right
Ans - it helps they develop their character
What are the three coaching styles? Right Ans - command, submissive,
cooperative
what is the command style? Right Ans - the coach makes all the decisions
what is the submissive style? Right Ans - the coach makes as few decisions
as possible- the "we are here to have a fun time" approach
what is the cooperative style? Right Ans - coaches share decision making
with their athletes. they want to provide leadership while allowing the players
to make decisions. this is the best