Any Sports Coach worth there salt, will have a Sports Coaching Philosophy that underpins everything they do, and every approach they take to the Sport they are coaching. The Sports Coaching Philosophy is what also underpins a Coaches game plan. My first coaching philosophy was two pages in length, and after 18 years of coaching hockey its now down to one very clear paragraph.
A sports coaching philosophy should include-
1. Your values
2. What your expectation are as a coach
3. Your standards.
Now I here some of you saying how do I get this into one paragraph, well at first when you start our as a Sport Coach, you often don't but in time you learn to say things in a more suck-sinked way, and that is how your philosophy gradually reduces in length and firms up as you begin to firm up what it is that you mean and what it is that underpins your coaching.
My advice to all new Sports Coaches, on developing there philosophy is that you need to seek out that inner coaching voice, you need to be able to relax, and quietly listen to that inner coaching voice in developing your philosophy. I also say don't panic if you cant hear it when you first start out, in a very short period of time you will here it.
Once you hear it, then I suggest you right everything down, this doesn't have to be in order either, then gradually piece it together in a way that makes sense to you. Also don't worry if its long winded this will change over time.
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