If I had a dollar for every time a coach said, “Know your role”, I’d have some more money…
But have we ever turned that phrase onto ourselves as the coach?
Give the following tweet a few minutes of thought:
The In-Powered Coach leads through action and energy, and not the fake ‘bring the juice’ energy… Real power is more subtle and significantly devoid of ‘the juice’.
Bringing the juice is being ‘seen’ coaching…
Force is seen. Power is felt. It’s an attractor field of energy that isn’t seen. It isn’t loud.
But it is there.
If Force coaches knew their true function as coaches, they wouldn’t ‘act’ as they currently do. They’d switch roles from actor to director:
Consider a filter question next time you want to step in and ‘coach’ after a player completes a rep in practice or a shift in a game:
Am I about to speak to be seen coaching or does something need to be said?
You’ll defend your ego and say it’s the latter but if you give it some thought, you’ll be satisfying the former.
Your function is to positivly impact the player, your function is not to be seen coaching.
I’d like to leave you with this take…
You'll improve at coaching in direct proportion to your ability to let go of the attachment to the need to 'be seen' coaching.