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Transformational Coaching and its Implications for Educational Environments
No full textThis research on transformational athletic coaching and its implications for educational environments contributes to knowledge by using a case study design and purposeful sampling to analyze the impact of transformational coaching as a leadership style for educational environments. The researcher examined this unique transformational leadership style by studying transformational athletic coaches in diversely populated secondary school environments. The study participants were athletic coaches renowned for promoting transformational change in their educational environments. Transformational coaching is a leadership style that can help educational communities flourish socially, emotionally, spiritually, physically, and cognitively. Appropriate research-based observations and best practice techniques were used to illustrate the challenges and/or obstacles transformational athletic coaches may encounter in transforming educational organizations inside and outside the field of athletics. Additionally, this research study was designed to heighten awareness of how the transformational coaching leadership style can enhance educational environments by utilizing positive motivation, mentorship, and mutual collaborations, for the betterment of the educational community
High School Sports Coaches’ Perspectives of Mental Skills Training Implementation
Full text linkThe purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to gain an in-depth understanding of the perceived benefits and challenges that exist when implementing a Mental Skills Training (MST) program in high school sports, from the perspectives of high school sports coaches. Constructivism theory informed this study’s arguments about the role that the benefits and challenges had on the coaches’ perspectives of MST. For this research, interactions with six high school sports coaches took place through one-on-one virtual interviews and an asynchronous online focus group. The primary research question that guided this study was, “How do high school sports coaches perceive the benefits and challenges of implementing an MST program?” The conversations provided this researcher with an understanding of what the coaches learned from their perceived benefits and challenges of implementing an MST program. Five major themes arose: (a) reasons for implementing MST, (b) structure of MST and topics, (c) perceived effects on athletic performance, (d) perceived effects on life skills, and (e) support. The findings in this study can offer future high school sports coaches with relevant evidence about whether MST programs are a viable method of improving high school athlete performance and life skill development
