Sports coaching is a difficult area to enter into, especially if you are lacking knowledge of the sport. In my opinion, sports coaching is an important discipline, especially when coaching young children, because the right coach can inspire someone to do great things. The right coach can help you develop your skills and develop a real love for the sport. This is really important as a sport can help you to develop so many friendships and great memories. How is it, then, that we can create the “right coach”? Well, I believe that we can do it through mentoring and hence I would like to highlight the importance of mentoring in sports coaching. I believe that mentoring people about sports coaching can enable sports coaches to inspire more children and, potentially, breed more success.
Firstly, I believe that mentoring people about sports coaching is important as coaches need to know the importance of allowing children to experiment. Often sports coaching can be quite regimented, and this means that children are often bored and not motivated to try new things. However, by mentoring people about sports coaching, we could potentially give children more freedom to experiment. This freedom ought to enable them to realise what they are good at and, most importantly, what they like the most. By noticing this they may decide to pursue these interests and become successful (and develop valuable traits) as they grow.
Secondly, I believe that mentoring people about sports coaching can lead to the formation of new coaching methods. This, however, requires the coaches to think actively and so can only be done with the help of trained mentors. These mentors must promote active reflection and evaluation which should enable to coaches to question the norm and hopefully develop new ideas of their own. These ideas will be creative and hopefully enable children to have more fun. I think it is important to constantly reflect upon coaching methods, with the help of mentors, so that we provide children with new and inspiring things. This is what will enable them to maximise their full potentials and flourish.
In summary, I hope that you can see how mentoring people about sports coaching can benefit both the coaches and the children playing the sports. In essence, I believe that sports require new ideas which have the capacity to spark new interests. This can only be done by breaking boundaries which can be taught by sports mentors. For more information on mentorship visit https://www.selfmadebook.uk/mastermindgroup/