1. Pursuing Coaching Excellence

2. Who are you Coach?
Leader
Decision Maker
Establish Expectations

3. Expectations
Effort
Attitude
Focus
Game Skills
Sportsmanship

4. Why do you coach?
What’s your motivation
What’s your purpose

5. Traits of Coaching Excellence
Sportsmanship
Fortitude
Confidence
Communicate Skillfully
Practice Proficiently

6. Sportsmanship
Builds character traits of honesty and fair play into the lives of the players
An absence of sportsmanship, teaches selfishness, dishonesty, and disrespect are acceptable.

7. Sportsmanship
“After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.”  Mickey Mantle
“If character is what you do when nobody is watching, sportsmanship is that conduct with everyone watching.” Bob Ley
“The only way you can prove you are a good sport is to lose.” Ernie Banks

8. Fortitude
Maybe the most important trait to model. Adversity will always show up on the field and in life.
An absence of fortitude leads to giving up, self pity, excuses, and a losing mentality.

9. Obstacles to Overcome Highly Skilled Game
Lots of Failure – Hitting, Pitching Fielding
Highly Skilled Game
Team game with mostly individualized training
Outside Game Practiced inside

10. Fortitude
“Mental toughness is not usually seen in the actions of a person but rather in the reaction of a person” Kevin Eastman
“Mental toughness is a decision you make everyday when you get out of bed. Mental toughness is a lifestyle, not an event” Dave Serrano
“You just can’t beat a person who won’t quit.” Babe Ruth
“Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up” Chinese Proverb
“We focus on the reasons why we ‘can’t’ at the expense of the far greater reasons why we ‘can’.” Craig D. Lounsbrough

11. Confidence
Portraying confidence leads to buy in from your players, which leads to trust.
A lack of confidence leads to anxiety, distrust and dysfunction.

12. Confidence
“One important key to success is self- confidence. An important key to self- confidence is preparation.” Arthur Ashe
“Nothing builds self-esteem and self- confidence like accomplishment.” Thomas Carlyle
“Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.” Vince Lombardi

13. Communicates Skillfully
Skill that must be developed
Effects Individuals and the Team
What you say
How you say it
When you say it

14. Power of a Coach Encourage/Discourage Motivate/ Demotivate
Confidence Builder/Confidence Breaker
Positive Culture/Negative Culture
Love Game/Hate Game

15. Practice Proficiently
Development/Grow in knowledge and performance
Teaching Process Based Progression Drills
Lots of reps
Station work. Use assistant coaches Smaller groups less standing around.

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