This article by Bruce E. Brown, from the Proactive Coaching Intentional Coaching #2 collection, challenges coaches to be the coach they would have liked to play for and to examine whether coaching is a job, a career, or a calling for them. It outlines what it means to be professional, a master teacher, an example, a confidence builder, and a team builder, contrasts the mindsets of a job, career, and calling, and closes with a tribute to the "lifetime coach" and the poem "The Coach."
Be The Coach You Would Have Liked To Play For
Be Professional. When you make the commitment to coach, be the best you can be. Develop a foundational philosophy on which you base all your decisions and choices. Know why you are coaching - for the love of the game and the love of the athletes. Choose athletes above winning. Build trust by being an expert with the use of your words in this public, emotional competitive arena. Constantly work to improve your knowledge and ability to teach the game and motivate players. Go watch and learn from the best people in this profession.