How can coaches help their players enjoy the game at the highest level and also perform their best?
Key Points:
- Freedom is the power to take action without hesitation, fear of failure, or risk of penalty.
- The best coaches give their players freedom to take risks, but within the framework of the overall team strategy.
- Athletes who are afraid to make a mistake play tentatively, lack creativity, and underperform.
- Great coaches design creativity and risk-taking into practice and resist the urge to pull a kid when they make an aggressive mistake in the game.
Talk About It
- What is your initial reaction to this topic? What jumped out at you?
- Share about a coach who was great at giving his or her players freedom. How did it affect the team?
- Share about a coach who was too controlling. How did that attitude affect the team?
- Read Proverbs 29:22. When a coach does have to pull a kid for making a mistake, how should they coach them up on the bench?
- In your own words, describe what it means to coach with freedom within a framework. On a scale of 1-10, how would you grade your own coaching in this area?
- Is there a step you need to take based on today’s topic?
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