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 […]
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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 […]
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Although I wrestled from elementary through high school, and played college football, there was a steep learning curve when I was a new wrestling parent nearly a decade ago. I made so many mistakes I can’t even count them. Mistakes such as: Paying for private lessons my son didn’t need. Traveling around the country for […]