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When Frosty Westering was the head football coach at Pacific Lutheran, he had only four coaches total on staff for a program that was a perennial national title contender. A friend of mine played on the 1999 National Championship team for PLU and … [Continue reading] about Goal Sets and Accountability Cards: Systems for Individual Athlete Goals
I'm currently working my way through the excellent Daniel Croyle book The Culture Code. In the book, I've been struck by the parallels between what Croyle points out as how to create cooperation in small groups and individuals and the coaching habit … [Continue reading] about Listening Better=Better Coaching
For those of us who are old enough to remember Arnold Schwarzenegger as a body builder who only played parts where his thick Austrian accent didn't interfere too much with the main plot lines, you may remember his line in Conan the Barbarian when … [Continue reading] about What Outcome Equals “Success” in Youth and High School Sports?
Apparently this screencast was too long for YouTube so I edited, and uploaded to Vimeo. The next one of these that I do, I'll make sure to keep to around 10 minutes. Hope this helps. Summary of The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do from … [Continue reading] about Video Summary of ‘The Secret: What Great Leaders Know & Do’
This year marks the 175th anniversary of the Oregon Trail. The 2,170-mile Oregon Trail and it's offshoots were traveled by 350,000 people from 1846-1869. Historians estimate that of those 350,000 who started the trip, as many as 30,000 died along … [Continue reading] about Coffee Prevents Cholera: Why You Need to Build Systems to Have a Championship Program