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clear philosophy that is underpinned by your experiences. It would have been useful if you drew
from more course content (e.g., inter- and intra-personal skills) where you begin to make relevant
suggestions. It’s also good to see you use literature to reinforce your suggestions, although you need
to check your citation and referencing formatting.

Grade: 58%
Dr Adam L. Kelly

19/11/2020

I am a coach for my local team as well as a student in Birmingham City University studying sports
coaching. This will help me gain more knowledge on coaching so I fulfil my dreams into becoming a
high level coach competing for trophies and become successful with my approach of coaching which
I’ve gained throughout my life.

As a coach I believe that I have the responsibility to educate and transfer my knowledge to the
athletes. I believe I need to portray myself in a professional matter and be seen as a positive role
model to the athlete’s especially towards younger individuals because if they’re influenced positively
at a young age it will have a good impact for them in their futures. Research also suggests that role
models has an impact on motivating and inspiring individuals to perform novel behaviours and
inspire them to set ambitious goals. (Thekla M, 2015). As a 10 year old I played for my local football
team and my coach who transferred me a lot of his knowledge to me to help make me the coach I
am today. He worked on different drill and focused on all aspects of the game to help improve our
overall game so we can use it in competitive matches. This has inspired me and would transfer the
knowledge that I learnt during football into my practise of coaching.

I also strongly believe that each coach should show their own uniqueness and embrace difference as
this would promote unity within and acceptance to those individuals you are coaching. Now as a
coach I understand the physiological aspects of sports and how confidents and motivation can have
a huge impact on athlete’s performance. In my coaching style I believe communication is key to the
success of the team so I focus my drills on team drills that involve communication. As well as this
outside of sports I would organise activities that enable individuals to work together for example
rowing to help them communicate together.

My autocratic approach to coaching allows me to coach the way I want and these allow me to
demonstrate that passing if used effectively will help create more chances for a team and will get
you further up the pitch. I would want my team to play in little triangles all over the pitch because
when attacking you will have a lot of options and defensively it would allow you to recover quickly.
To be a high quality coach for example Jeff Mayweather and Pep Guardiola you need to set yourself
goals and objective to become a successful coach. As a coach my goals are to win trophies and
compete against the best.

In the future I would like to coach a high quality football team because I believe with my idea I can
demonstrate that my coaching style would allow me to show high level team performance I will do
this by slowly progressing into a high level of coaching starting from an a low level team like a
Sunday league team into a premier team in the future.

Morgenroth, Thekla & Ryan, Michelle & Peters, Kim. (2015). The Motivational Theory of Role
Modeling: How Role Models Influence Role Aspirants' Goals. Review of General Psychology. 19.
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