Introduction of the Second Subject: Hockey Coach
The next topic, which will be related to an individual, is motivational theories. The individual was my hockey coach for numerous years. The role of a hockey coach is very interesting, especially at a younger age similar to this coach. The role of the coach does not revolve around winning and training, but more involving teaching players to become better teammates and overall individuals. Valuable lessons were learned on this team, therefore the coach plays a pivotal role. The coach had several strengths and one major weakness. The strengths include being supportive, friendly, and knowledgeable. The weaknesses include lack of motivation, and not handling situations correctly. The first strength …show more content…
The first theories of motivation are needs based theories. These focus on internal factors that energize individuals. The first theory is Maslow’s Need Hierarchy. This theory states that individuals have five basic needs: physiological, safety, belonging, esteem and self-actualization. This coach did not address physiological needs, for it was not his role to make sure players are able to survive. This is the one portion of Maslow’s theory which does not relate to the coach and his team. The coach of this team did relate his teachings to the rest of Maslow’s needs therefore the hierarchy does relate to …show more content…
This is another form of goal setting. The strategic plan would include strengths and weaknesses of the current team and how to improve the weaknesses. As well as long and short term goals such as simpler goals like be a better teammate and even more complex objectives such as make the playoffs. By the coach outlining what is expected and wanted from his perspective, this allowed players to better understand their main goals and objectives as a team. This improved cohesion and confidence on the team because accomplishing goals increases both cohesion and confidence. Goal setting is a strong motivational tool for sports coaches and they are often utilized on professional teams. This exemplifies the success used through motivation and goal setting.
Conclusion
This paper compared several Organizational Behaviour concepts and process to a specific group, Manitoba Smash Brothers Group and a specific individual, a hockey coach. Through comparison of these concepts, one could better understand the successes and failures of both a group and individual. The crux of this paper is to better understand previous experiences through the guidance of organizational behaviour concepts. This paper provided an opportunity to better understand previous personal experiences with both a group and an individual using fundamental group behaviours and motivational
The next topic, which will be related to an individual, is motivational theories. The individual was my hockey coach for numerous years. The role of a hockey coach is very interesting, especially at a younger age similar to this coach. The role of the coach does not revolve around winning and training, but more involving teaching players to become better teammates and overall individuals. Valuable lessons were learned on this team, therefore the coach plays a pivotal role. The coach had several strengths and one major weakness. The strengths include being supportive, friendly, and knowledgeable. The weaknesses include lack of motivation, and not handling situations correctly. The first strength …show more content…
The first theories of motivation are needs based theories. These focus on internal factors that energize individuals. The first theory is Maslow’s Need Hierarchy. This theory states that individuals have five basic needs: physiological, safety, belonging, esteem and self-actualization. This coach did not address physiological needs, for it was not his role to make sure players are able to survive. This is the one portion of Maslow’s theory which does not relate to the coach and his team. The coach of this team did relate his teachings to the rest of Maslow’s needs therefore the hierarchy does relate to …show more content…
This is another form of goal setting. The strategic plan would include strengths and weaknesses of the current team and how to improve the weaknesses. As well as long and short term goals such as simpler goals like be a better teammate and even more complex objectives such as make the playoffs. By the coach outlining what is expected and wanted from his perspective, this allowed players to better understand their main goals and objectives as a team. This improved cohesion and confidence on the team because accomplishing goals increases both cohesion and confidence. Goal setting is a strong motivational tool for sports coaches and they are often utilized on professional teams. This exemplifies the success used through motivation and goal setting.
Conclusion
This paper compared several Organizational Behaviour concepts and process to a specific group, Manitoba Smash Brothers Group and a specific individual, a hockey coach. Through comparison of these concepts, one could better understand the successes and failures of both a group and individual. The crux of this paper is to better understand previous experiences through the guidance of organizational behaviour concepts. This paper provided an opportunity to better understand previous personal experiences with both a group and an individual using fundamental group behaviours and motivational