Building team culture in basketball
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2015-05-04
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Dunkley, Ryan
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This project focuses on the head coach’s role in developing team culture in competitive amateur basketball. It explores the factors that the coach must consider and develop when creating and building winning team culture in basketball, and additionally why these factors are so important. Leadership, personnel and team building all emerge as key categories. Within these 3 categories key topics such as recruiting, shared leadership, projection, tradition, goal setting, character, coaching techniques and team building are discussed.
These topics lead to an activity based coach education resource that aims to help coaches develop, discuss, grow, re-visit and share key factors and topics that will help facilitate a vision and plan of action for developing winning team culture in competitive amateur basketball. The coaching resource also contains several working documents that can be used in actual team building/goal setting situations. The major activity within the coach education resource is an interactive documentary that takes participants through a complete basketball season and provides reflection and discussion opportunities within. The focus of the project is to present the key factors and considerations necessary developing strong team culture, and additionally provide a coaching resource to help create, clarify and grow strong team culture within a basketball program.
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Coach Education, Team Culture, shared leadership, competitive sport, amateur sport