The 5 Stages of a Coach's Career
Contributed by Coach Brian Williams
What is your rocking chair statement?
That is, what do you want the athletes that you have coached to say and remember about you when you are retired and spending your time in a rocking chair on your front porch.
I hope that this collection of ideas will have an impact on you, your staffs, and most importantly, your performance with the athletes that you serve.
Coach so that your athletes will not only remember you, but keep in touch with you in your golden years!
So what stage are YOU at?
Dawn Redd Kelly
Let me tell you what I think about coaches:
- We’re crazy in our preparation and dedication.
- We work long hours and love it
- We give up our nights and weekends.
- We mentor our student-athletes.
- We demand big things from them and even more from ourselves.
- We’re passionate in our belief in our team and our love for our sport.
- We believe in the power of sport to have a positive and long-lasting impact in our athlete’s lives.
The 5 Stages of Your Career
1. Survival: Don’t Know What You Don’t Know
Turns out also I needed to formulate a recruiting plan, balance a budget, create practice plans, order equipment, manage assistant coaches, and make in-game adjustments. 2. Striving for Success: You Want Folks to Recognize You Can Coach
3. Satisfaction: You Relax, Set Another Goal, & Want to Get Better
4. Significance: Changing Lives For The Good
Now you want to make sure your teams understand the value of sport and hope that you’re teaching them how to be better people, not just better players. 5. Spent: No Juice Left, Can’t Do It Any More
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Thoughts on Extending Your Coaching Career
These notes are a summary of a presentation given by Bob Starkey, Associate Head Coach for the LSU Women’s Program.
- The Goal is not the goal. The goal is to become the best coach you can become on a daily bais and an extended career will follow.
- Decide what your “why” or your overriding purpose for the reasons you are in coaching. It is what you stand for. As the late, great Don Meyer said, “It doesn’t matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.
- Focus on the daily process. Give your undivided attention to the task at hand. Execute as well as you can with what lies directly in front of you at the moment. If you continually focus on extending your career, or on looking at the next job, you are draining yourself of the energy that you need to focus on today.
- The best way to move up the ladder or extend your career for the future is to own and master what is given to you to do at this moment in your career.
- Ethical choices are a full-time job. Don’t let a short-term gain for a win be overshadowed by a bad choice you made striving for an edge.
- You have to win to keep your job to be able to have a positive impact on your athletes. But, you can’t let winning be a conflict of interest.
- Don’t be consumed by trying to win that you turn your head on discipline and your culture. You have to fight for your culture, even if it costs you a victory now and then.
- You must be willing to walk away from a job that does not share your beliefs.
- Have a fire for being a continual learner and growing as a person and as a professional.
- Find balance. Find ways to incorporate your family in your job and program.
- Schedule time for your spouse and children throughout the season and honor those commitments.
- Find some “you time.” Mediation, working out, walking, reading, or anything that helps you to be centered.
- Creating a circle of influence group of people that you believe in and trust. People who will tell you the truth and will tell you that you’re wrong when you are. It is best to include both coaches and non-coaches in this group.
- Find a good financial planner and accountant to help you take charge of your finances. “You must gain control of your money or the lack of it will forever control you.” Dave Ramsey
- Have flexibility and be open to change. Changes in jobs, changes in coaching staffs, changes in administrations. Be open to change by staying open minded and being a good communicator.
- Every athlete has a story. Learn that story. Knowing your players at a deeper level improves your ability to impact them. Get to know each player’s individual learning style. What motivates each player?
- Be a problem solver. Not enough resources? Solve it! Not enough players with a specific skill? Solve it! Need better facilities? Solve it!
- Hardly a day goes by without at least one minor problem–if not major. Take the attitude that a problem is an opportunity.
You can read the entire original article at this link: 8 Thoughts and Tips on Exending Yng our Coaching Career
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