The biggest difference between a coach and a manager comes down to their mindset on development. Coaches develop talent. Managers develop teams. The title someone has doesn’t matter if their mindset doesn’t fit the title. If a manager takes the time to develop individual talent, they are coaching. If a coach only focuses on recruiting […]
A good friend who happens to be a wrestling coach shared a tweet with me this morning so juicy I had to write about it today. It was a video of Olympic bronze medalist and current wrestling coach Tervel Dlagnev talking to an audience about what wrestling coaches say to wrestlers during a match. Dlagnev […]
Too often coaches teach young athletes to view mental toughness only through the lens of sports. As a result, athletes limit their perception of a mentally tough athlete to only a few attributes such as: thriving in the clutch, pushing through the pain of injury or fatigue, and overcoming adversity with grace. Yes, all these […]