One of my favorite books on coaching comes from the great Pete Carroll. In his book Win Forever he provides a simple philosophical prescription to help coaches go from good to great. Good coaches are good with game planning, great coaches are great with philosophical planning. Carrol gives Coach John Wooden credit for inspiring this […]
Nearly all youth athletes get their self-motivation from two areas: 1) Developing new skills. 2) Demonstrating those new skills. Contrary to popular belief, winning in youth sports is not how you motivate a young athlete. If a youth athlete cannot make the connection between practice and competing with these two things, they will not embrace […]
If you follow my coaching philosophy, you know I have a rather strong opinion about dealing with strengths and weaknesses. There are two rules of thumb I live by when it comes to deciding whether to build strengths or fix weaknesses. The first rule is to spend as little time, energy, and emotion in areas of […]