The lesson of the promise and the prize is a lesson in commitment to success. This commitment starts with a promise to take action, and ends with fulfilling that promise with a prize of success. What athletes must learn about the promise and the prize is to control the controllables and not to worry about […]
In one of my favorite books, The Mentor Leader by Tony Dungy, Dungy provides a simple formula for effective coaching and leadership. Dungy states: Engage, educate, equip, encourage, empower, energize, and elevate. Those are the methods for maximizing the potential of any individual, team, organization, or institution for ultimate success and significance. 1. Engage Engagement […]
Coaches where many hats. However, the most important hat they where is that of a teacher. In that role of a teacher, there is one lesson above all that coaches must find the time to teach their athletes about preparing for practice. This is the lesson of mind and body harmony. While the idea of […]