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The Business of Greatness Introduction Regular Journal contributor Rose Mercier has tapped into her own successful business experiences to produce an invaluable guide by which women coaches can (and should) conduct their professional lives in order to get the maximum benefit from their chosen career. So often driven by passion for the sport they coach, women coaches, more often than not, forget all about caring for themselves. They ignore the importance of operating within a well-thought-out framework consisting of a career plan, solid business practices, and a well-defined vision based on carefully articulated values. A strength of this article is the many questions Rose poses, questions that are essential to defining a career path that should lead to excellence in every facet of life.This article is relevant to all women coaches, not just the ”professional” or paid coach. We know beyond doubt that the capacity to coach well is not strictly the purview of the professional. In Canada, many of our successful women coaches operate as volunteers. Often the salary is the only distinguishing feature between professional and volunteer — they share commitment, skill, education, and a consuming desire to have their athletes achieve their potential and derive the maximum from sport. Therefore, as Rose stresses, building your coaching career on effective business practices should be common to all. As she frankly acknowledges, such practices are all too easily put on the back burner; there are so many more pressing details to manage, even for someone as scrupulous as she. With this article, Rose has laid out a simple, logical, straightforward pathway to coaching success, one that the Journal believes has the potential to benefit women coaches at all levels of Canada’s sport system. Good luck, and let us know how you fare! — Sheila Robertson
The views expressed in the articles of the Canadian Journal for Women in Coaching are those of the authors and do not reflect the policies of the Coaching Association of Canada. |
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Get on the email circulation list click here Publisher: Sheilagh Croxon, Consultant, Women in Coaching, Coaching Association of Canada Editor: Sheila Robertson Editorial Board: Copy Editor: Heather Ebbs Translator: MATRA • gs Inc. © 2008 Coaching Association of Canada, ISSN 1496-1539 Coaching Association of Canada Web site by
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