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    Facebooklet 3
    Facebooklet 3
    Facebooklet 3
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    Facebooklet 3

    By Bruce E. Brown

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    This booklet contains all the posts from year three on our Proactive Coaching Facebook page. They are divided into sections for Coaches... Competitors... Team Leaders... and Parents

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBruce E. Brown
    Release dateMay 31, 2015
    ISBN9781311569356
    Facebooklet 3
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    Bruce E. Brown

    35 years as a teacher, coach, athletic administrator at the junior high, high school, junior college and collegiate level Coached football, basketball, baseball, and volleyball Former National presenter for the NAIA’s Champions of Character Program Director of Proactive Coaching Clinician – Speaking nationally to athletes, coaches, parents, school districts and corporations

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      Facebooklet 3 - Bruce E. Brown

      2013 Facebook Booklet #3

      Bruce E. Brown

      Proactive Coaching LLC

      Copyright © 2015 Bruce Brown

      All rights reserved.

      Distributed by Smashwords

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this ebook with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      What we do… Creating character based team cultures…

      Providing a blueprint for team leadership…

      Developing confident, tough minded, fearless competitors…

      Training coaches and leaders for excellence and significance

      Table of Contents

      Coaches

      Competitors

      Team Leaders

      Parents

      Coaches

      Coaches who recruit players based only on their talent with no idea about their character or no ability or willingness to intentionally teach character will watch their team self destruct based upon character issues

      Coaches… before you speak during an emotional moment, ask yourself if your words are going to serve you or serve others - Discipline and train yourself to quiet your mind and control your words at any time.

      Advice from my dad about a career… Either look for a job that pays you so much money you can enjoy all your spare time or get one that you love so much that you don’t care how much you get paid. Choosing teaching and coaching… never a doubt, always thankful.

      Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life. - John Wooden

      Coaches… Would you rather have an athlete who is a 5 on a 10 point scale of ability and a 10+ rating on the commitment to the team or one who is a 10 on the ability and 5 on the investment and commitment?

      Both of these team cultures are so easy to spot.

      Coaches… Have you clearly defined what an athlete looks like in your team culture? Defined so clearly that it cannot be misunderstood? There is a big difference between being athletic and being a true athlete that has a teachable spirit, is accountable, mentally tough, selfless, disciplined, etc. If you haven’t defined them, don’t expect your athletes to be living them - Life Lessons booklet

      Thanksgiving… Wealth is not about who has the most. It is about who needs the least to be happy. This is for the great teachers and coaches who can never be paid enough for all they do but who have found a calling by working with young people

      In this week of gratitude we would like to recognize those of you who sacrifice so much by being married to a coach and sharing him/her with other people’s kids

      A Lakota warrior wanted to teach his four sons about the power of teamwork. So he gave each of them an arrow and asked them to break it. Each son did it easily. Then the father gave them a bundle of four arrows bound together and asked them to repeat the process. But none of them could. The lesson is, the father said. If you four stick together, you cannot be defeated. Compete with and for each other!

      When working with athletes at the competitive level… Praising people prior to performance isn’t as effective as praise that is earned through performance. A compliment isn’t a treat, it is a reward. Make sure you don’t miss a chance to praise but save your great for great and use it only when it is earned. What you reward will be repeated.

      Five things that cause young athletes lose their love of athletics…

      1. Negative Coaching - completely in the control of the coach - develop a style that works for the athletes in your care

      2. Constantly losing - Coaches, learn to create victories in practice - Motivational Strategies booklet

      3. Making the game too complex - Games, strategies, and skills can be complex but when coaches or parents make the game too complex before they teach the kids to love the game, it overwhelms young kids. Great coaches have the ability to take complex concepts and make them appear simple.

      4. Mental and physical fatigue - The same game, same muscle groups year round. What was fun at age 9 is often forced labor at 14 or 15. Keep your athlete fresh by encouraging a variety of activities and interests.

      5. Outside pressure - parents who push too hard and too much, place too much emphasis on winning, who live out their dreams through their kids, or who withdraw love and affection after failure to perform well. At best this causes kids to lose confidence at worst to hate competition.

      Athletic Directors… Do you see your coaches as a team? Are you trying to build an entire character based athletic department with that team? We just spent the weekend working on that exact process with 3 college AD’s from NY, FL and CA. This supports our belief on who calls on us…The people at the very top of their profession because they are always looking for an edge - always trying to get better. Powerful

      Most games cannot be played without officials. At the high school level every referees associations could use more people. Where are we going to find and develop qualified, strong officials? Mainly they will come from our CURRENT ATHLETES. Most young people are first exposed to officiating by doing youth games at their school or local leagues - they have never attended referee school. The gyms are usually small and very few people. Everything that is being said is heard. How long would you keep trying to do something new when you are getting a few dollars a game and have adults (spectators and coaches) yelling, "Call a foul -

      You’re terrible ref - that is ridiculous - you’re lost out there - don’t you know the rules? - I can’t believe you’re getting paid" - etc.

      As a spectator, leave young officials alone. Coaches, if you have problems, quietly and respectfully approach them. As a league administrator - if the fans and coaches can’t do this, ask them to leave.

      If you knew in advance that the words you would speak to a particular person would be your last opportunity to communicate with that

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