Coaches and Scouts

• Provide training direction, encouragement, motivation, and nutritional advice to prepare athletes for games, competitive events, or tours.
• Explain and enforce safety rules and regulations.
• Plan and direct physical conditioning programs that will enable athletes to achieve maximum performance.
• Instruct individuals or groups in sports rules, game strategies, and performance principles, such as specific ways of moving the body, hands, or feet, to achieve desired results.
• Teach instructional courses and advise students.
• Evaluate athletes' skills and review performance records to determine their fitness and potential in a particular area of athletics.
• Monitor athletes' use of equipment to ensure safe and proper use.
• Adjust coaching techniques, based on the strengths and weaknesses of athletes.
• Develop and arrange competition schedules and programs.
• Keep abreast of changing rules, techniques, technologies, and philosophies relevant to their sport.
• Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of opposing teams to develop game strategies.
• Contact the parents of players to provide information and answer questions.
• Coordinate travel arrangements and travel with team to away contests.
• Explain and demonstrate the use of sports and training equipment, such as trampolines or weights.
• Arrange and conduct sports-related activities, such as training camps, skill-improvement courses, clinics, and pre-season try-outs.
• Hire, supervise, and work with extended coaching staff.
• Keep and review paper, computerized, and video records of athlete, team, and opposing team performance.
• Counsel student athletes on academic, athletic, and personal issues.
• Select, acquire, store, and issue equipment and other materials as necessary.
• Perform activities that support a team or a specific sport, such as participating in community outreach activities, meeting with media representatives, and appearing at fundraising events.

Source: O*NET OnLine information for Coaches and Scouts.

• Speaking - Talking to others to convey information effectively.
• Monitoring - Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
• Management of Personnel Resources - Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
• Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Learning Strategies - Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
• Social Perceptiveness - Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
• Complex Problem Solving - Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
• Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.

Source: O*NET OnLine information for Coaches and Scouts.