Personal Narrative: My Strengths As A Coach

As a coach, you are never going to be perfect. You will have strengths, and you will have weaknesses. It is up to you as a coach, to take these characteristics and try and utilize them in a way that would work best for you and your team. Some of my strengths personally are that I am very logical thinker, responsible, and self-assured. While these traits can be very beneficial to me as a coach, I do have some traits however, that could potentially be some weaknesses when it comes to coaching. These traits could be that I am stubborn, sometimes insensitive, and can be judgmental. However, it is my job as a coach to make sure that I am doing my absolute best for my athletes and myself. One of the things that I love about myself is that I am a very logical thinker. Often times, this is a great strength that I have, and I pride myself on it. Being logical, I tend to thrive off of facts and honesty. As a coach, this would be beneficial, because I would not try and play mind games or manipulate my athletes, I would always be very direct
If I promise to do something, I am going to keep my word. I think that being responsible has been really emphasized within me since I am an only child. As an only child, I rely on loyalty a lot of the time, and trust those who are loyal to me. To me, responsibility and loyalty can kind of go hand-in-hand and relate in how proactive and trustworthy a person can be. A coach needs to have a sense of responsibility and knows that this is extremely important to the team. A coach who is not responsible would result in chaotic practices and a chaotic team in general. Responsibility would be having practice plans ready for everyday, arriving early and on time to practice and events, being fair to all my athletes, and anything else that the team would rely on me for. If I were not responsible, my team would not trust me, thus why responsibility is