April 2011
8 posts
Coaching Stress and Ethics
Coaching Stress (a) My coaching stress during the season was high.  Hitting responsibilities were solely mine and that produced a lot of pressure.  Even though, overall, the hitters performed significantly better than last year, it was still a lot of pressure.  Coaching stress differs from academic stress and relationship stress because, in coaching, you have to worry about two other coaches and...
Apr 28th
Ethical Leadership Self-Assessment Please check one answer for each of the following items: I. Demonstrate that ethics is a priority Almost Never-AN Occasionally-O Frequently-F Almost Always-AA   NA was used a few times because it is not applicable to me in my current assistant coach position or financial state (poor graduate student) I tell my staff to make ethics a priority.— AA I use...
Apr 26th
Cultural Competence Checklist: Personal Reflection This tool was developed to heighten your awareness of how you view clients/patients from culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) populations. *There is no answer key; however, you should review responses that you rated 5, 4, and even 3. Ratings: 1 Strongly Agree 2 Agree 3 Neutral 4 Disagree 5 Strongly Disagree 2 was the response for all...
Apr 26th
National Fastpitch Coaches Association's Adopted...
The Coaches Code of Ethics The function of a coach is to educate students through participation in interscholastic competition. An interscholastic program should be designed to enhance academic achievement and should never interfere with opportunities for academic success. Each student-athlete should be treated as though he or she were the coaches’ own, and his or her welfare should be uppermost...
Apr 26th
Apr 26th
Apr 19th
Leadership Improvement Plan
The graph above is a depiction of how 3 players, my head coach, a peer, and myself scored on the Leadership Practices Inventory.    The Plan.  Devising my leadership improvement plan was not an easy task.  While I scored myself fairly low on the Leadership Practices Inventory, my athletes and those who know me scored me high.  The key to my plan is staying consistent with my players, regardless...
Apr 19th
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