Coach to Coach: Follow These Four Keys to Become a Better Coach Every Day

As coaches, we often preach to our players, “You will either get better or worse today.” In order to get better every day, players have coaches who have made practice plans for them and provide encouragement, feedback, and inspiration. But if we, as coaches, are going to get better, who and what do we have to help us? The following is an acronym for a process you can use on a daily basis to make sure you are improving in key areas of coaching effectiveness. Follow this plan each day, and you will get better.BuildTo be a great coach, you must build relationships. Relationships are the primary element in any change process involving two people (e.g., player and coach, student and teacher, mentee and mentor) such as improving a skill or learning a game plan. Relationship building is powerful because it deals with values, which is half the equation for motivation (i.e., a useful model