...Coaching Philosophy Coaching philosophies are an instrumental part in a coach’s overall success. From the way you handle winning or losing, how you handle your players, and the lessons you want to get across to them, philosophies in general are very broad and cover many different aspects of coaching. Overall I believe my coaching philosophy will be based the morals and values that were taught to me by my parents. I have also played for some great coaches so far in my athletic adventure and I will be sure to take different philosophies and mannerisms from them. Some positive things I have seen firsthand are how to relate to your players, how to adapt, and most importantly how to communicate. On the other hand I have also played for some horrible coaches that I believe have taught me an abundance amount of information on how not to carry yourself, handle certain situations, or treat players. As far as professional coaches that I have been able to read about, admire, and implement ideas from are Phil Jackson, John Wooden, and Tony Dungy. I do believe it is important to establish a unique philosophy that fits my personality and natural coaching style, while also intergrading some ideas from the great coaches mentioned before. So far in my search to create a solid philosophy the constants have been leadership, empowerment, communication, relationships, trust, motivation, and love. Coach Phil Jackson with eleven NBA titles has obviously been able to implement a coaching philosophy...
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...III. General Company Description What business will you be in? What will you do? A: My business is coaching as I am certified in intervention, life coaching, and relationship counseling. I will be coaching to help people manage their priorities, learning their communication style, and explore the way they use their inner and outer resolution and conflict styles to better understand themselves (Leadership skills for, n. d.). I have learned and used many tools to get at these ideals, and have a genuine desire to do some good. Mission Statement: Many companies have a brief mission statement, usually in 30 words or fewer, explaining their reason for being and their guiding principles. If you want to draft a mission statement, this is a good place to put it in the plan, followed by: A:...
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...Positive Coaching Practices I found Positive Coaching by Jim Thompson to be one of the better books I have ever read. This book was both very enjoyable as well as packed with wonderful information and ideas. This book contains so many useful concepts that I went through two highlighters while reading this book. I can honestly say that I have about a fourth of the book highlighted. There are so many ideas that got me thinking about how I can apply them to my coaching life I don’t know were to begin. I am currently coaching my son’s seven and eight year old coach-pitch baseball team and many of the things Mr. Thompson writes about fit well into this level of coaching. One thing that was new to me was the idea of going and watching a team a little older than your group practice or play a game. I think this is a wonderful idea and something I will pursue next year when the timing is better. Since I was not able to accomplish that this year with this group I instead did the next best thing. I had a couple of players from an older team come to practice and teach my young players a few things, sort of a mini-clinic within practice. This seemed to really work well and the young players really listened and focused on what they were learning. They could really relate to one another and I think the older players really enjoyed teaching the younger kids. This type of activity made them all feel important and as though they were apart of something special. Another new concept...
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...management of a classroom. As proposed by him, I realize that how important for a teacher trainee like me to learn how to manage a classroom. In my opinion, I think that classroom management is like coaching a football team. The teacher who is the coach needs to develop a mutual understanding and commitment with the students in order to deliver and empower them with effective teaching and learning process. This also ultimately reflects my personal teaching philosophy which is to engage in the student’s learning and inspires them internally. In order to make my personal philosophy a success, as a future teacher I will be very strict in my ways to produce successful learners who upholds the school’s name which also football coach needs to uphold his countries name by winning as many games as his team could. I will engage with my students by teaching and imposing them with the correct ways of learning and asked them to stick to what I have taught so that they won’t be on the wrong side and we can work together and achieve tone of successes. Furthermore, as a future teacher I will deliberately use the legitimate power that I will have and engage with my student as a form of authority that need to be followed and considered during the teaching and learning process as I’m the teacher and I know what best for my students. I will also inspire my students by giving them lots of rewards which indirectly keep them inspired to do well in their exams and achieve flying colours like how the football...
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...Coaching Philosophy There is no doubt that winning competitions is important in sports. However, not everyone plays sports only for winning. The purpose of playing sports can be different depending on the person, the situations, the level of participants, and so on. Therefore, to be a successful coach, I believe that a coach needs to know the athletes whom he is coaching and to be able to communicate with them in order to understand what they really want. Although I have never had a professional coaching experience, I have once had a coach who was a member of Korea national volleyball team when I played volleyball in a amateur volleyball club at my undergraduate school. Since volleyball in Korea is uncommon sport for teenagers and the club is an amateur team, freshmen needed to learn about very basic skills and most of us were not that good at that time. However, the coach trained us in the way how he had been trained when he was a player. We could not stand his training and some members did not want him to coach us anymore because the level of his way was not suitable for our club, so he finally left our team before long. He was a great volleyball player, to be sure, but he was not a good coach for us. He should have focused more on his players by communication with them than just on the improvement of skills. In conclusion, since I usually coach amateur club team, I would like to be a coach focusing on the person and seeking fun rather than winning. I would like to make...
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...retention * Increased job security * Improved employee morale * Enhanced shareholder and stakeholder value * Improved and innovative processes Advantages of Total Quality Management: * Improves reputation- faults and problems are spotted and sorted quicker * Higher employee morale– workers motivated by extra responsibility, team work and involvement in decisions of TQM * Lower costs – Decrease waste as fewer defective products and no need for separate * Quality Control inspectors (Quay,2012) Lean Manufacturing Lean manufacturing is all about creating value by bringing in fierce efficiency in every aspect of production, by minimizing wastefulness in all its manifestations. With its origins in eastern philosophy of 'Kaizen', lean manufacturing focuses on reduction of 'Muda' which is the Japanese word for anything in a manufacturing or business process, that is wasteful or not directed towards...
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...What do I believe to be important as the best coach I can be? Well, for me it is treating every player I coach with complete respect, fairness, open communication with every one of them and building a long trusting relationship with each other. If I show them these characters from within myself it is my hope that they will model it for themselves, for me, their teammates, the officials, the fans, their parents and by all opposing teams, too. My main objective when I coach any team is I want to help them develop psychologically. I remind them often to have fun, celebrate their wins, loses or moments of opportunities that are presented to them. I have the knowledge I want to pass it on to those who do not, I also believe that playing sports, as a child not only builds character and confidence but also gives them a sense of accomplishment. It goes to the part in the book about self-knowledge, self-esteem and self-disclosure that if I expect myself to be like this, I want all my players to see their total self as well. The core part of my philosophy is an athlete first and winning comes second. This makes my coaching style to be cooperative style. This has always been my coaching philosophy, I have used on the field, as a team I will let them set their own guidelines for themselves among the team. I will let them hold each other accountable to their guidelines since they are the ones that created them with their list of values, guidelines and behaviors. This is part of being honest...
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...As a life long Cincinnati Bengals fan, I have listened to Marvin Lewis speak several times in clinics and other coaching conventions. He has a sound concept of defense, and what it takes to be successful at the highest level. I also appreciate what he has done for the team I root for, as we were mired in a decade long of embarrassing seasons before his arrival. He has brought stability, consistency, and pride back to our franchise. I have coached at both the high school and middle school level, and have spent time as the offensive, defensive, and special teams coordinator at the high school level at some point in my career. I stepped away from coaching three years ago to spend more time with my family. I have two children, Mackenzie is 7 and Andrew is 5. The time it takes to be a successful coach even at the high school level was just far too much for me and my family. This past season I decided to get back into coaching, and I took over the middle school program in the district I teach. I had a great time getting back into it, but didn't have to spend my summer coaching football, or 100+ hours a week breaking down film, preparing offensive scripts, evaluating our players, attending booster and coaches meeting, as well as practicing and games. It was just enough for me to get my competitive fix, but not so much that I felt like it was taking me away from my family. While watching the video Winning with the Three T''s (Tackling, Third-Downs, and Takeaways),I felt by far the...
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...four-style leadership model based upon Moses and his attainment of the ten items on the ethical leadership scale (ELS): visionary, shepherd, teacher and servant. This paper will evaluate an ethical issue within an organization and will discuss the various traits and skills apparent and lacking in the situation based upon Ben-Hur’s and Jonsen’s model as well as several other approaches to ethical leadership. Ethical issues come up in all levels of management in all organizations. In my previous position at EDMC an ethical issue surfaced with one of my employees. One of the managers who worked for me, who I will call Sally, bumped into one of my peers who was in charge of the training department, Bob. Sally proceeded to tell Bob a story about one of his trainers, Tom, forging coaching documents to fake coaching with Sally’s employees; Bob was Tom’s boss’s boss. This story that Sally was telling Bob was not first-hand knowledge; it was hearsay from Sally’s employees who supposedly had coaching sessions with Tom. In addition, a couple of months earlier, Sally complained against Tom to Tom’s direct supervisor, and she made it very clear that she did not support Tom as a trainer. The ethical issue seemed to be Tom faking...
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...time, regardless of sport, and has written several books about character habits and leadership. Some of his remarkable achievements are the 10 national championships, seven of them in a row, 88 consecutive victories, 38 straight tournament playoff wins, four perfect seasons (all but the 88 consecutive wins are still records), and in 41 years of coaching he only had one losing season which was his first. Of course with this type of success coaches and business leaders around the world wanted to know what was his secret. How did he do it? The secret, he reveals, is simple, and parallels many of the same principles of servant leadership. Coach Wooden does not simply offer up random thoughts on leadership and coaching. He graduated Purdue as an English teacher and, barring a few financial hurdles, he would have been quite satisfied to have become a teacher rather than a coach. But he had been a highly successful athlete at Purdue and was sought after as a coach for a high school program in Indiana. It was then that he began to develop an overall concept for leadership that has over the years solidified into a tangible philosophy that has been used by many leaders since then. The reader can tell that Coach Wooden took great pride in this pyramid of success (as he call it) and the building blocks of this pyramid share similar definitions with many of the sentiments that we have discussed in class. Along with his pyramid of success, Coach Wooden also promotes a very simple...
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...“I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep.” Now that I am fully retired and this book is complete, what does the future hold? Since 1994, when the movie first came out, my bucket list has always included standing on the spot that “Forrest Gump,” ended his transcontinental run in the movie of the same name. While only a runner could understand that goal, I finally achieved it while visiting Utah’s five national parks in May 2017. Little did I know that during that escapade I would travel to the depths of the Zion Canyon by horseback and, more than once, watch helplessly as the horse I was riding stood nonchalantly on the edge of a cliff with a drop-off of well over five hundred feet. And I thought running past that cemetery was...
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...nerdy, focused, dedicated person. Here is my story of immense struggle, pain, humor and confusion. “Philosophy! Yes that’s what I want to do after finishing school!”- I announced with pride and an intellectual air, sensing almost a discovery of sorts, discovery of my true passion and interest based on my convictions, ideas and daily thought process. Studying for entrance seemed too much of a headache- with all the cramming involved and so much more! Moreover the idea of studying in a medical college didn’t fascinate me anymore. The reason why I opted for biology in the 11th grade was because I was planning on studying for the premedical tests but I was just 15 then, realizing that I didn’t want to become a doctor but a philosopher at 16 sounded plausible and reasonable to me. “What?” mom replied back, almost choosing to ignore what I had just said. “I want to do a course in philosophy,” I repeated myself. “Be serious! Anyway you can do whatever you want after you become a doctor,” mom said almost forcibly, so not interested in what I was putting across to her. “Umm, no but philosophy is what really interests me and I am pretty sure about that.” “You are ruining your life and ours too. What do you want to do? Mop the floors? You have taken up biology! Don’t talk like those art students! You are seeking escape from hard work. Nothing in this life comes easy. Be courageous and don’t step back from what you have already decided. What will relatives say? It’s the most crucial...
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...My Leadership Philosophy Dictionary.com defines leadership as the position or function of a leader, a person who guides or directs a group. I will go in-depth on leadership and how I feel it should be achieved in hopes that you will grasp my vision for leadership. I will be explaining what I consider an importance to leadership and describing the aspects I want to improve in my own leadership style. There are many different leadership styles: transactional, laissez-faire, and coaching to name a few, and I believe ones’ leadership style is based off of your morals and the interactions you have had with your leadership. My goal is to take the different leadership attributes I observe and produce the perfect leadership style for myself. I quickly found out that my objective was not easy for me to achieve. I have worked in three different duty positions in my four years serving in the Army, but all of them gave me an opportunity to work on my leadership skills. I used my experience as the lowest ranking Soldier on my team as an opportunity to learn from my higher-ups while in the Cyber Protection Brigade. I do not solely base my leadership quality on how my higher-ups feel I need to be, but how my soldier views me as their leader. I strive to portray a leadership style that my Soldiers will want to emulate....
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...How has this course changed my opinion about the true meaning of leadership? "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." (Drucker, 2001). My concept of leadership has changed in three main ways. First, I previously used the concept of leadership and management interchangeably. Leadership, clearly, was just “management—done better.” Second, good leadership was just a litany of actions: having a vision, good communication, open-mindedness, and so forth. Third, a major underlying assumption was that leadership came with the position one held—hence, one either “was” or “was not” a leader, depending on the position they hold. This view on all three fronts has completely changed. Leadership and management are two different concepts. Margaret Wheatley’s book, Leadership and the New Science, crystallized this difference for me (Wheatley, 2006). Wheatley’s insight was that leadership was a process, rather than a state (Wheatley, M., 2006). It is organic and ever evolving (Wheatley, 2006). It develops from within and radiates out to inspire others to solve problems according to their individual talents, instead of directing them to just follow orders (Wheatley, 2006). Leadership, in this respect, is establishing the playing field for organizational action, not directing it. If business were like football, leadership would be the field on which it is played and the rules of the game; management would be the decisions of the coach. Before I...
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...Coaching is a profound leadership mindset, but you have to believe in it first. Andrew Wood explains the big picture as follows: "Leadership is not a right of passage, or at least it shouldn't be. Leadership is a state of mind. A philosophy. An attitude. Understanding this, you can recognize and develop the key traits that will enhance and improve your personal capacity for leadership." Great leaders touch the lives of their followers through coaching. The key to consistent business success is to understand that people come before spreadsheets. The personal growth and coaching of their employees is put on top of the priority list and soon the results on the spreadsheets will follow. When you hear the word "coach," what comes first into your mind? Do you picture a sports team with someone shouting out directions or perhaps a frowning manager pacing to and fro and calling out the names of the players? Coaching is no longer reserved for sports teams — it is now one of the key concepts in leadership and management. So why has coaching become so popular in the business world? Coaching levels the playing field. Coaching is one of the several emotional leadership styles. Moreover, it is a behaviour or role that leaders enforce in the context of situational leadership. As a leadership style, coaching is used when the members of a group or team are competent and motivated, but do not have an idea of the long-term goals of an organization. This involves two levels of coaching: team and...
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