What values can sport instill? How do we teach or coach them?

In sport, there are lots of life lessons and values that sport can teach the participants involved. Although these values can be taught, it is up to the coaches and parents as to how much they influence the participant as they would be the people involved in teaching the values. These values include..

• Discipline - This value is needed by participants so that they can maximise the potential that they can gather from their coaching. This will teach the participants that discipline will help to improve their chance of success. This can be taught by coaching by the coach having the correct attitude towards their participants, this will help the performers to know what is acceptable and what isn't in terms of sportsmanship and also in life decisions. 
• Hard Work - This is another value which can be taught by coaches because without hard work, the chance of success would be slimmer as less effort would be put into the training that the participant is taking part in. This can be taught by coaches so that the participants can realise that with harder work they can maximise their potential in both sports and life activities.
• Teamwork - Teamwork is another value that would be useful for the participants to learn and take forward into both sporting life and also general life as working in a team is utilised in both the sporting world and also the academic and working world. This can be taught by coaches as they would stress the importance of not only performing well as an individual but also as a team by learning how to build chemistry and communication.
• Dealing with Success and Failure - This is another value as this will be a problem throughout the participants life again both in sporting activity and also personal life. A coach can teach this by giving feedback after wins and loses and ensuring that the same attitude is maintained after a match. This will meant that the participants will learn not to be a bad winner or loser and to make sure that morale is kept at a constant level and to maintain could character as both a person and a player.
• Goal Setting - This is a very important value that can be used both in sporting and general life as it means that the participants will strive more to achieving personal goals to improve themselves as a performer and as a person. By setting short, medium and long term goals in the micro, meso and macro cycles, it will help the participants to have personal goals and a better chance in improving skill progression goals or academic/work goals. This can be taught by coaches or teachers by helping their participants during the planning process and pointing them towards what they think would be effective for them to improve in to make them a better player and they can then take those planning skills forward for personal gain in general life.
• Value of Practice and Preparation - This value is vital in achieving goals as the performers will need to learn that the preparation of goals is vital in setting out clear goals for them to help identify specific advances in skills. Practice is also vital as this will be the make or break of achieving goals, without practice, it will be a lot more difficult to achieve the goals set out by the individuals or the coach. This value can be taught by using motivation as a technique to encourage their practice. 
• Sacrifice - This is another important value to be taught as the participants will need to be accepting when it comes to giving up social activities in order to complete sporting or general goals. This is important as it will make clear to the performer their priorities in which will help them to improve more as an athlete and also an individual. This will then help the performer to ultimately have better life choices in what they know would be better for them. Coaches can teach this value by allowing the performers to learn from their mistakes, this can be harsh as they may be unsuccessful in some parts of life but it will help them to realise where they went wrong and what they will need to change and know what to do in future circumstances,