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Objectives. The target of the research was to examine coach’s social and emotional skills, on the perspective of developing the functionality of a team. Social and emotional skills are considered to have repercussion to an individual’s well-being, as well as succeeding in academic or professional career. The functionality of a team, consist different factors, such as cohesion and motivational atmosphere. The purpose of the research was to survey how coach can effect on a team’s functionality with social and emotional skills. Coach’s social and emotional skills has hardly been touched in research, even though general research of social and emotional learning has been conducted over the last decade. Methodology. The research was conducted as descriptive literature review. Research sources included printed literature, scientific journals, and research results about emotional- and interaction skill together with functionality of a team. Results and conclusions. Coach’s leadership behaviour had a correlation to multiple factors that effects the functionality of a team, such as; cohesion, psychological safety, motivational climate, and collective efficacy. The needs of athletes and hearing their thoughts with the help of democratic decision making were positive correlated to a team’s atmosphere. Coach’s social and emotional skills were connected to the increase of openness and trust within a team.