Abstract:

People are in need of leaders who will guide them in achieving these goals while struggling to specific goals throughout their lives. This situation applies to people who do sports and need to be individual team athletes, leaders who will guide themselves and contribute to their development at the highest level. Coaches are often in the leading position for athletes and are expected to have a higher level of communication skills and motivation for successful coaches while having a great impact on athletes. This research was done to study the communication and leadership skills of the coach candidates who participate in training courses. The Nicel research model was adopted in this study and the relative scan model was used. The study group consisted of 287 (188 men and 99 women) coach candidates who participated in the first-degree assistant coach training courses opened within the Sports General Directorate in 2017. In the first part of the survey, which consists of three sections, the "Personal Information Form" was used, while in the second part, the "Communication Skills Assessment Scale" was developed by Korkut (1996) (IBDÖ). In the last part, the "Leadership Orientation Survey" was developed by Luthans (1992) and adapted to Turkey by Çömert (1999). The data was considered to normal distribution and not showed normal distribution, and it was used by non-parametric tests. The data obtained was subject to the analysis of Correlation, Mann Whitney-U and Kruskal Wallis H. As a result, the increased communication skills of the coach candidates have been found to increase their leadership skills towards task (r = 0,55**) and towards man (r = 0,54**). The result is that the increasing leadership skills of the trainer are also increased in the leadership skills of the person. It has been found that women have higher communication skills than men (X=158,34, p<0,05) and leadership characteristics towards men (X=163,97, p<0,05) than men.

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