If your major purpose for coaching is to enhance your personal prestige by having a winning record, count on your players feeling they are cheating you if they miss practice or goof off. However, if you are trying to teach them what it takes to perform at a high level so they can learn how to perform at a higher level again in many different parts of their lives, they may understand that when they don t perform well for any reason that they are hurting their team and themselves. Thus, contribution has been put in the correct perspective. T here is saying in business and in sports that there is never a good man but only a good man to do a job. On a team there are never universal players or players who are the very best at every thing.
All human beings have weaknesses.
The purpose of a team is to hid individual weaknesses and enhance individual strengths. You as a coach must know what strengths players have and allow those strengths to surface and you must cover up individual weaknesses as best you can with strengths of other individuals within the team. You can never completely eliminate human weakness but you can cover them up with strengths you have developed or been given in other players. D o first things first. The first thing always in any team sport is going to be to increase knowledge and then improve individuals and then team technique.