An important issue in any profession, so including sport training, is to understand the psychological and social component of your job. You can be a good surgeon or engineer but also be a bad manager. The same goes for a coach, you can know very well the technical dimension of your job but be a bad coach. In other words, someone who only knows the technical side of his job cannot lead other people. Just as champions are not built in the gym, as Muhammed Ali said, managers are not built in the classroom.
They must be taught to live in their own context, to improve themselves by giving them the opportunity to learn from their experiences.
We need to develop leadership coaching activities in sports starting from the coaches’ experiences. Teach them to listen to themselves and we have to listen to what they have to say in order to understand how they think, how they manage their emotions and how they bring their ideas to others.
Certainly we need to know our work but if we do not know how to communicate it effectively it will be completely useless, our athletes may follow us but because they have no alternative and not because they are confident that the proposed system is the best for them.
And let’s remember that those who don’t want to improve are left behind.
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