Communicating Effectively with Your Head Coach
I believe the assistant's primary role is to support their head coach and program. However, it’s equally important to provide new ideas, training tactics, and solutions. Other than conversations and group discussion, I have found very few resources to support and lead assistant coaches on this mission.
I personally enjoy learning from fellow coaches, and I love hearing new and creative ideas and simply conversing about ways to be a more effective communicator and coach. Hopefully through this article, I can share some of my thoughts on how to communicate ideas to your head coach and support his/her decision (whether it’s your idea or not).
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