All of these things will help to build trust between the players and the coaches. Players are a coaches most important asset and they should be guarded and encouraged to help them to reach their full potential as a successful team. All of the coaches do have many common characteristics that can be found within all of them. Some of these basic principles of coaching would include allowing the players to feel comfortable enough to be able to speak their minds about problems and questions whenever they should arise, encouraging your players to list goals for themselves and to help them to find ways to achieve their goals as and individual and as a team player and to help them with their sports life and their life off of the field. Working as a team does not meanthat it is a dictatorship but a compromise of input from both the players and the coaches.
Players also differ in many different ways be it mentally, physically or even emotionally.
As a good leader one needs to watch every aspect of the players development and show appreciation in every facet of their individual progress no matter how large or small. These are the qualities that make a winning team. Method Subjects Eighteen players from the West Chester University field hockey team served as volunteer participants. All were of the varsity status on the team and ranged in class rank from freshman through seniors. In this experiment I used a survey questionnaire comprised of 17 questions.