How should young coaches effectively reach out to established coaches to find mentors?
Young coaches should reach out to successful people, build a relationship with them, and eventually ask them to be a mentor. They must be willing to listen and take feedback and criticism in order to succeed. Transcript: "I think young coaches should just reach out to the people that they think or believe have been successful, and try to ask them questions, and try to develop a relationship with them. And then eventually, ask that person to be your mentor, and see what they say. But keep in mind, you have to be willing to listen. You have to be willing to take positive feedback and criticism. And you can go a long way. I think a mentor is absolutely necessary if you want to reach the top of your career or the top of your profession in your sport."
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Caryl Smith Gilbert
Head Coach University of Georgia
I think young coaches should just reach out to the people that they think or believe have been successful, and try to ask them questions, and try to develop a relationship with them. And then eventually, ask that person to be your mentor, and see what they say. But keep in mind, you have to be willing to listen. You have to be willing to take positive feedback and criticism. And you can go a long way. I think a mentor is absolutely necessary if you want to reach the top of your career or the top of your profession in your sport.
Jeremy Fischer
๐บ๐ธ Olympic Medalist Jumps Coach
I think is a great question. I think that to reach out to establish coaches, I think I just establish coaches. Also try to find coaches who are leaders in coaching education, giving back ones, who do a lot of talks ones who efficiently have education as their base, and then can also have show you success, in their ability, to coach athletes because some coaches are great at teaching and they've created ucation and there's no application and Other coaches, they tend to be pretty decent coaches solid, but they may not know the sides in the wise to what you can still learn from everybody. But definitely, if you're looking for a mentor, someone who has both, those has probably going to be the best mentor and the most willing to help.