Aspirations and Goals Short,medium and long term:

My short term goals:

My short term goal, is to again have the amazing opportunity of coaching in the summer in America, this means I need to organise my returner forms and get the ball moving as well as organising, several things such as time off work and university times.

My medium term goals:

My aim for the end of the second academical year, is to achieve the best possible grades to stand me in good stead for the third year. I also want to learn more about myself as an individual seeing how I cope with various pressures, experiences, and external influences.

Long term goals:

I plan to become a more competent coach, with a greater knowledge and application skills in order to become a successful coach in later life. This year I would also like to partake in several courses and opportunities such as to complete my level ones and above, first aid and disabled coaching awards.

I have several anxieties, about achieving the above targets such as work commitments, but everything is currently in my hands and its all to play for, bring it on!

Strengths and Weaknesses:

In the lesson where we first got told about the blogs, we where asked to list our strengths and weaknesses, below is the lists I came up with, it will be interesting latter in the year to see what I have maintained, improved and perhaps depleted in.

My strengths:

• I feel I have an abundance of confidence, which allows me to work to a high level and succeed.
• I feel I have good public speaking skills, which were developed significantly over the summer, when coaching in America; where I had to speak to large groups of people of contrasting ages.
• I feel I have efficient punctuality, which is vital for future careers.
• I feel I have good communication skills, and can empathise well with others problems and issues; partially due to my role as a bar tender.
• I feel I am a good leader, yet am equally comfortable working within a team situation.
• I feel I am focused and have a clear desire to succeed.
• I have a great amount of enthusiasm and try to keep upbeat in all situations.

 

My Weaknesses:

• I can often become over exuberant and become over talkative.
• I often allow judgements and perceptions to cloud my judgement of character and situations.
• Whilst I feel I could become more organised by planning in advance.
• I find it hard to accept criticism and negative feedback.

Benefits of evaluation and reflecting on performance:

Benefits of evaluation and reflecting on performance:

     I believe that, the potential information these blogs can provide to me in the future will be priceless, as not only will it remind me of techniques, skills and knowledge developed it will also allow me to see, my insight/opinions my feedback from my tutors and also reflect upon what I have said and see if my values, interpretations and opinions have altered with experience and subsequent acquired knowledge; whilst hopefully also seeing where I have developed as a coach and understand how I have developed and improved.

   Evaluation allows you to critic self-performance, and determine strengths, weaknesses (area’s for improvement) in order to develop as a person and as a coach and see how you have evolved and become more knowledgeable and creative.

For me Self-Reflection is the way to remove inner road-blocks, to first become aware of the things that really holding me back and then tackle them by finding a solution, Thum(2008).

I read the above quote and thought it was a real inspiring quote as it basically says there will be things that you might not be good at but you can find solutions to overcome these weaknesses and use them to improve as a person and thus a coach.

 

Myrko Thum (2008) Personal Development that Transforms

http://www.myrkothum.com/self-reflection-how-to-do-it-right/

Introduction into my summer:

       An indication to my summer experiences that have helped shape my coaching. My summer coaching experiences are touched upon during my blogs, so this provides the reader with an insight.

   During the summer, I took the initiative and experienced the unique opportunity of coaching soccer for challenger sports in Sacramento, C.A., America; for the duration of ten weeks, it was an invaluable experience that developed me both as a coach and as an individual. Over the summer I coached for approximately 250 hours over the 10 weeks 5/6 days a week dependant on additional coaching or goalkeeper camps. I worked as an individual and as a member of a group and coaches children from several age groups ranging from 3-16 years. I also had the opportunity to be the camp director where I was in charge of organising several coaches and delegating roles, splitting the children relevant age and into groups, the administrative aspects such as payments and health and safety aspects and also resigning the camp for next summer. I decided to try the challenger experience as I have friends that have coached on the camps and they could not speak highly enough of the experience and the company, whilst I also wanted a fresh challenge.