Improvement and Development:
Professional Growth: Coach evaluations provide coaches with constructive feedback, helping them identify areas for improvement and professional development.
Skill Enhancement: Evaluations can pinpoint specific skills or competencies that need enhancement, allowing coaches to focus on targeted training and development.
AD and Coach meet to cover any needs/wants for the program.
Topic 1: Review Schedule
Topic 2: Go over the checklist & expectations
Topic 3: Pressing Needs/Wants
Topic 4: What is needed from the Athletic Department to ensure a successful season?
AD and Coach meet as needed to support the program.
Step 1: End of Season Surveys
Step 2: Coaches Checklist
Step 3: Post Season Meeting.
The survey provides insights into what coaches are doing well and where there is room for improvement. This feedback can help coaches enhance their methods and strategies. Coaches can use the input to pursue targeted professional development opportunities to improve their coaching skills and effectiveness. Just our athletes, our coaches have a growth mindset and are striving for competitive greatness.
The survey questions below were developed using John Wooden's Pyramid of Success
Why did we use John Wooden's Pyramid of Success to develop survey questions?
Using John Wooden's Pyramid of Success for coach evaluations can provide a holistic and character-based approach to understanding a coach's effectiveness. Wooden's pyramid emphasizes core values and qualities that contribute not only to winning games but to building strong teams and well-rounded athletes. Here are some key reasons for using it in coach evaluations:
Focus on Character and Leadership: Wooden’s pyramid places significant emphasis on qualities like industriousness, enthusiasm, loyalty, and team spirit, which are essential for a coach’s character. Evaluating coaches on these values encourages them to model positive behaviors that can inspire athletes.
Balanced Approach to Success: The pyramid doesn't focus solely on winning; it promotes success in broader terms. It suggests that true success comes from preparation, cooperation, and hard work, which are critical to developing both a positive team culture and players' personal growth.
Personal Development and Team Dynamics: The principles in Wooden’s pyramid encourage coaches to foster an environment where athletes learn skills that extend beyond the sport, such as self-discipline, resilience, and responsibility. This creates a lasting impact, as players can carry these qualities into other areas of life.
Consistency in Standards: Using the Pyramid of Success provides a standardized but flexible framework to assess coaches across various situations and sports. It ensures that coaches are evaluated on their alignment with the organization’s values rather than solely on quantitative outcomes like wins and losses.
Encourages Long-term Growth: The pyramid emphasizes continuous improvement through attributes like patience, adaptability, and integrity. By evaluating coaches on these traits, organizations can promote a growth mindset that goes beyond immediate results, focusing on developing both the coach’s and team’s potential over time.
There is no substitute for work. Worthwhile results come from hard work and careful planning.
You foster an environment where hard work, effort, and dedication are consistently encouraged and rewarded.
Optional: "What specific actions or behaviors contribute to promoting hard work among the team?"
The coach fosters an environment where hard work, effort, and dedication are consistently encouraged and rewarded.
Optional: "What specific actions or behaviors from the coach contribute to promoting hard work among the team?"
The coach fosters an environment where hard work, effort, and dedication are consistently encouraged and rewarded.
Comes from mutual esteem, respect, and devotion. Like marriage it must not be taken for granted but requires a joint effort.
You create an environment of mutual respect and shared commitment where all team members collaborate and contribute to a collective effort.
Optional: "How do you encourage mutual respect and cooperation among team members?"
The coach creates an environment of mutual respect and shared commitment where all team members collaborate and contribute to a collective effort.
Optional: "How does the coach encourage mutual respect and cooperation among team members?"
The coach creates an environment of mutual respect and shared commitment where all team members collaborate and contribute to a collective effort.
To yourself and to all those depending upon you. Keep your self-respect.
You create an environment of mutual respect and shared commitment where all team members collaborate and contribute to a collective effort.
Optional: "How do you encourage mutual respect and cooperation among team members?"
The coach creates an environment of mutual respect and shared commitment where all team members collaborate and contribute to a collective effort.
Optional: "How does the coach encourage mutual respect and cooperation among team members?"
The coach instills a sense of loyalty and pride to the team and community.
With all levels of your co-workers. Listen if you want to be heard. Be interested in finding the best way, not in having your own way.
You instill a sense of loyalty and pride to the team and community.
The coach instills a sense of loyalty and pride to the team and community.
The coach fosters a cooperative environment where finding the best solutions takes priority over individual preferences.
Brushes off upon those whom you come in contact. You must truly enjoy what you are doing.
The coach effectively cultivates an environment of enthusiasm, energy, and passion that motivates the team to stay engaged and give their best effort.
Optional: What actions or behaviors from the coach inspire enthusiasm within the team?
The coach fosters a cooperative environment where finding the best solutions takes priority over individual preferences.
Optional: What actions or behaviors from the coach inspire enthusiasm within the team?
The coach effectively cultivates an environment of enthusiasm, energy, and passion that motivates the team to stay engaged and give their best effort.
Practice self-discipline and keep emotions under control. Good judgment and common sense are essential.
You effectively create an environment where self-discipline, emotional control, good judgment, and common sense are emphasized.
Optional: How do you encourage your players to practice self-discipline and manage their emotions during high-pressure situations?
Optional: How do you demonstrate and reinforce the importance of good judgment and common sense in decision-making on and off the field?
The coach effectively creates an environment where self-discipline, emotional control, good judgment, and common sense are emphasized.
Optional: In what ways does the coach encourage you to practice self-discipline and manage your emotions during high-pressure situations?
Optional: How does the coach demonstrate and reinforce the importance of good judgment and common sense in decision-making on and off the field?
The coach effectively creates an environment where self-discipline, emotional control, good judgment, and common sense are emphasized.
Be observing constantly. Stay open-minded. Be eager to learn and improve.
The coach encourages learning from both successes and mistakes.
Optional: How does the coach promote a culture of continuous observation and learning from both successes and mistakes?
The coach encourages learning from both successes and mistakes.
Optional: How does the coach promote a culture of continuous observation and learning from both successes and mistakes?
The coach encourages learning from both successes and mistakes.
Cultivate the ability to make decisions and think alone. Do not be afraid of failure, but learn from it.
You foster an environment that encourages you to take initiative, make independent decisions, and learn from mistakes without fear of failure.
Optional: In what ways do you support independent thinking and decision-making within the team?
Optional: How do you help your athletes view mistakes as opportunities for learning and growth rather than setbacks?
The coach fosters an environment that encourages you to take initiative, make independent decisions, and learn from mistakes without fear of failure.
Optional: In what ways does the coach support independent thinking and decision-making within the team?
Optional: How does the coach help you view mistakes as opportunities for learning and growth rather than setbacks?
The coach fosters an environment that encourages you to take initiative, make independent decisions, and learn from mistakes without fear of failure.
Set a realistic goal. Concentrate on its achievement by resisting all temptations and being determined and persistent.
You help your athletes set realistic goals and stay focused on achieving them by demonstrating determination, persistence, and resistance to distractions.
Optional: How do you support your commitment to goals despite challenges or setbacks?
The coach helps you set realistic goals and stay focused on achieving them through determination, persistence, and resisting distractions.
Optional: How does the coach support your commitment to goals despite challenges or setbacks?
The coach helps your athlete set realistic goals and stay focused on achieving them through determination, persistence, and resisting distractions.
Mental-Moral-Physical. Rest, exercise, and diet must be considered. Moderation must be practiced. Dissipation must be eliminated.
The coach promotes balanced conditioning, emphasizing the importance of mental, moral, and physical well-being through proper rest, exercise, diet, and moderation.
Optional: In what ways does the coach emphasize the importance of mental and moral discipline in addition to physical training?
The coach promotes balanced conditioning, emphasizing the importance of mental, moral, and physical well-being through proper rest, exercise, diet, and moderation.
Optional: In what ways does the coach emphasize the importance of mental and moral discipline in addition to physical training?
The coach promotes balanced conditioning, emphasizing the importance of mental, moral, and physical well-being through proper rest, exercise, diet, and moderation.
A knowledge of and the ability to properly and quickly execute the fundamentals. Be prepared and cover every little detail.
You prioritize skill development by ensuring a thorough understanding of the fundamentals and the ability to execute them quickly and accurately.
Optional: How do you prepare your athletes to master the details of your skills and techniques?
The coach facilitates skill development by ensuring a thorough understanding of the fundamentals and the ability to execute them quickly and accurately.
Optional: In what ways does the coach prepare you to master the details of your skills and techniques?
The coach facilitates skill development by ensuring a thorough understanding of the fundamentals and the ability to execute them quickly and accurately.
A genuine consideration for others. An eagerness to sacrifice personal interests of glory for the welfare of all.
You cultivate a team spirit characterized by genuine consideration for others and an eagerness to prioritize the team's welfare over individual glory.
Optional: How do you promote a culture where team success is valued more than personal achievements?
The coach cultivates a team spirit characterized by genuine consideration for others and an eagerness to prioritize the welfare of the team over individual glory.
Optional: How does the coach promote a culture where team success is valued more than personal achievements?
The coach cultivates a team spirit characterized by genuine consideration for others and an eagerness to prioritize the welfare of the team over individual glory.
Just being yourself. Being at ease in any situation. Never fighting yourself.
You create an environment that encourages your athletes to be themselves and maintain composure in any situation, fostering a sense of ease rather than internal conflict.
Optional: How do you help develop confidence and comfort in your athlete’s abilities?
Optional: How do you prepare your athletes for handling pressure or challenging situations?
The coach creates an environment that encourages you to be yourself and maintain composure in any situation, fostering a sense of ease rather than internal conflict.
Optional: In what ways does the coach help you develop confidence and comfort in your own abilities?
Optional: In what ways does the coach prepare you for handling pressure or challenging situations?
The coach creates an environment that encourages your athlete to be themself and maintain composure in any situation, fostering a sense of ease rather than internal conflict.
Respect without fear. May come from being prepared and keeping all things in proper perspective.
You create an environment of confidence characterized by respect without fear, emphasizing preparation and maintaining a proper perspective.
Optional: In what ways do you help your athletes build confidence through preparation and understanding of their role?
The coach fosters an environment of confidence characterized by respect without fear, emphasizing preparation and maintaining a proper perspective.
Optional: In what ways does the coach help you build confidence through preparation and understanding of your role?
The coach fosters an environment of confidence characterized by respect without fear, emphasizing preparation and maintaining a proper perspective.
Just being yourself. Being at ease in any situation. Never fighting yourself.
You create an environment that encourages your athletes to be themselves and maintain composure in any situation, fostering a sense of ease rather than internal conflict.
Optional: How do you help develop confidence and comfort in your athlete’s abilities?
Optional: How do you prepare your athletes for handling pressure or challenging situations?
The coach encourages you to perform at your best when it matters most, fostering a mindset that embraces and enjoys difficult challenges.
Optional: In what ways does the coach help you develop the ability to rise to the occasion during high-pressure situations?
Optional: How does the coach promote a positive attitude towards facing and overcoming challenges in competition?
The coach creates an environment that The coach encourages your athlete to perform at their best when it matters most, fostering a mindset that embraces and enjoys difficult challenges.encourages your athlete to be themself and maintain composure in any situation, fostering a sense of ease rather than internal conflict.
AD, Secretary, and Coach ensure that all coach checklist items are handled.
The coach & AD meet
Topic 1: What was successful?
Topic 2: What was challenging?
Topic 3: Review survey data and use it to help shape future professional development opportunities.
Topic 4: What are the program's needs, and how can AD support?