Coaching Experience Analysis

I find myself in a different place then most of the students that are or will be taking this class when asked to establish a philosophy for being a professional helper or coach. I have been coaching since 1986 and have spent most of my coaching and helping career learning from relationships that I have created and the mistakes that I have made over those years. I will use this paper to explain what I have learned about helping and coaching and where I hope to someday be as a coach and helper.
I started coaching at 18 years old and I thought that I had to prove to the players that I was the smartest person in the room. I thought that if I yelled it then it would be heard better and they wouldn’t forget it. This idea looking back at it didn’t make a lot of sense because I played for a man in Coach Spear who only yelled at umpires and even then it was more of a strong tone. I was young and thought I knew more than Coach Spear did so I was going to do it the total opposite of him. …show more content…
I’m not a yelling type coach and I was having my players tell me they didn’t understand what I was saying because most of the first season they just ignored me when I yelled. I spent the whole second season undoing the damage I did that first season. I learned that it is important to listen to the players and not just tell them what you want them to do, but to hear what they think they can do and not do and to help them be a better player. What I also learned in my second season was that when I wasn’t yelling I had real kids who were going thru more than just a baseball season. I found myself helping my kids in so many ways that had nothing to do with baseball, it was life and family which made them better people which I have learned is the real reason I became a coach and