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    On Point: A Coach's Game Plan for Life, Leadership, and Performing with Grace Under Fire
    On Point: A Coach's Game Plan for Life, Leadership, and Performing with Grace Under Fire
    On Point: A Coach's Game Plan for Life, Leadership, and Performing with Grace Under Fire
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    On Point: A Coach's Game Plan for Life, Leadership, and Performing with Grace Under Fire

    By Pam Borton

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    On Point gives you a seat on the bench with one of the nation’s top women’s basketball coaches. Distilling a 27-year coaching career into crucial lessons, On Point drives home the essence of effective leadership under pressure, stress and times of chaos. On Point delivers the practical knowledge and skills leaders need to achieve success in life and business, using stories from business, the courts, locker rooms, and press conferences. From leading a Big 10 basketball program to coaching high-performing teams in business, leader-focused chapters provide a holistic view of attributes crucial for On Point leadership.

    On Point leaders will learn to:

    • Master the Front Court – establish the fundamentals that set leaders on the path to winning
    • Build A Strong Bench – develop a team with the right attitude, skills, and strength
    • Dominate At Center Court – integrate the core values of On Point leadership
    • Leverage the Locker Room – influence and motivate individual success
    • Defend Your Back Court – finish strong in your life and your work
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateSep 20, 2016
    ISBN9781683500223
    On Point: A Coach's Game Plan for Life, Leadership, and Performing with Grace Under Fire
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    Pam Borton

    Pam Borton ICF MCC occupies rarified air as a Master Certified Executive Coach, one of the few master coaches in the world. Her journey began on a farm in rural Ohio that led to a 27-year career coaching Division I women’s basketball. In her tenure as women’s head coach at the University of Minnesota, she guided her team to the NCAA Final Four and was a familiar face at March Madness with her teams. She is now a sought-after senior executive coach, speaker, and best-selling author of ON Point and The Crooked Rim. Through her business coaching expertise, multiple certifications, and thought leadership, Pam continues her endless pursuit of excellence, her passion for elevating others, and her commitment to growth and development to support the complexities and challenges her clients face daily. She has appeared on ESPN, CBS, NBC and transitioned from the sports world to the boardroom by founding ON Point Next Level Leadership LLC, a national, woman-owned leadership development firm. Pam has also founded two nonprofits supporting women and girls, TeamWomen and Empower Leadership Academy. As a true coach and gifted force of nature, she has been recognized by the Top 10 Global Women of Leadership Pillar Award, (Real) Power 50 Award, New England National Coach of the Year Award, and a two-time nominee for the Naismith National Coach of the Year. Pam also was honored with the creation of the Pam Borton Endowment at the University of Minnesota in the College of Education and Human Development, the only endowment of its kind in the world. Pam lives with her partner, Lynn, and their two Yorkshire terriers, Louie and Stella, in State College, Pennsylvania.

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      On Point - Pam Borton

      PART ONE

      GRACE UNDER FIRE

      Life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we react to it.

      –Charles R. Swindoll–

      You can’t truly know how you will handle adversity, chaos, or extreme situations until you actually stare them in the face. Nothing will ever prepare you for the worst of these situations. Taking a class, listening to a podcast, reading a best-selling book, or attending a seminar—none of these will prepare you adequately. You have to go through the storm to really know what I’m talking about.

      A PERFECT STORM

      My 27-year basketball coaching career, and 12-year tenure at the University of Minnesota, gave me valuable, leadership-affirming storms to weather and fires to extinguish. In the 2005-2006 season, a firestorm engulfed me. I learned a key ON POINT lesson: to conduct yourself with grace under fire, you must brave the heat and dance among the flames.

      The 2005-2006 Minnesota Gopher women’s basketball team wasn’t only one of the deepest and most talented—it was also one of the most unsuccessful—teams I ever coached. Conditions began to unravel early in the season and it only got worse as the season unfolded. First, the team was spoiled. Two of the world’s best players, Gophers in 2004-2005, had graduated or exhausted their eligibility. The returning players, the fans, and the coaching staff were accustomed to putting All-Americans on the floor, and we would have none this season. We were spoiled by talent and the expectations it brought.

      The remaining players were not used to taking on roles of higher responsibility, greater consistency, more production, and deeper accountability for keeping the program at a national level. After reaching three consecutive NCAA Tournament Sweet 16s and a Final Four, there was an elite level of expectation. It was now someone else’s turn to take on a bigger role, to step up, to be a leader, to be put in pressure situations, and to make plays. My coaches and I had to learn a different way to coach, motivate, and win without All-Americans. We had to learn to grind it out, to rely on many and not just one or two players, and to figure out ways to win without elite star performers. Unfortunately, these conditions created a you-know-what storm we were unprepared to

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