How to Answer: If a player openly badmouths your coaching decisions, how will you handle the situation?
Advice and answer examples written specifically for a Coach job interview.
10. If a player openly badmouths your coaching decisions, how will you handle the situation?
How to Answer
The interviewer wants to know how you handle conflict with players. The interviewer wants to hear about different ways you deal with players and if those ways are appropriate. One of the best ways to handle the situation is to pull the player aside and have a private conversation.
Depending on the situation you may have to have a team decision, so for this question you may want to pick a situation where you had to deal with this and explain what you did to handle it.
Written by Cassandra Bates on November 11th, 2019
Answer Example
"I once had a player who during practice was talking how they didn't think the drill I was running was helpful. I pulled the player aside afterwards to hear their opinion why they thought what they thought- there was a deeper issue that the player was dealing with and we discuss proper ways that she should work on frustrations."
Written by Cassandra Bates on November 11th, 2019
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