3 Skills you need to become an exceptional coach


 How YOU can be an effective instructor

 batting drills, batting tips, little league baseball practiceI have been a coach with the freedom of not having to teach (God bless all you teachers & teacher/coaches). This has allowed me to put in more time than most in studying the art and science of hitting and learning. I think it is just a formula that has allowed me to create a living teaching hitting.

No life + obsession with hitting + no real job + living in Arizona + a lot of luck = The Krush Hitting Company.

All this is just prefacing what I believe are the most important things I have learned about being an effective coach. Now this has changed a whole lot in my 30 year coaching career.
The most important characteristic of being a quality coach is being a good communicator. Whether you are right or wrong, if you communicate well, you will be effective.
The second characteristic is to be very knowledgeable (big surprise) in your field. What I really mean by this is to know a lot about a lot in the field. Acknowledging what others believe or teach is showing that you are not just a stubborn, narrow minded coach. The ability to rattle off what this coach teaches or what that player thinks about will make you a much better teacher.

Another very important value you must build between the players and yourself is trust. If a player doesn’t trust you, for whatever reason, you will not get the most out of the player. The athlete must trust that;
1, You know what you are talking about
2. You are fair
3. That you care about the individual
4. Your word is good

These days you have to be a Psychology major, as well as a coach, to get the most out of your players. You must analyze and figure out what buttons to push on each, individual player. The days of, “Do it because I said so” are long gone… not many players respond well to that teaching methodology.
I have several ideologies and teaching methodologies that I go through in detail in our coaches’ clinics(along with swing mechanics, etc)

Lisa dodd, UNLV softball, batting drills, coaching tips
. I will also be detailing these, along with several real life stories that have molded me and way more importantly, help you as a coach, in the posts in near future.

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