Professional Development

This video is courtesy of Glazier Academies In the 2-minute video, Frank DeLano delivers a powerful message taken from his full presentation “Everything They Don’t Tell You About Being a Coach” from Glazier’s Head Coach Academy. Being put in the middle of difficult situations is seemingly a daily occurrence for coaches. There is no one answer or ...

BORING is good when you want to be good Written and contributed by Dr. Chris Hobbs ( Follow him on Twitter @Dr_ChrisHobbs)   My youngest daughter is a 14 year old aspiring athlete. Early on in her sport endeavors she’s demonstrated strength, grit, commitment, and some explosive athletic ability. I don’t know how accomplished she’ll become but ...

This article was provided by Bjorn Galjaardt Okay, a catchy phrase for something that might actually be a double pyramid model. However, time is of the essence and clubs, coaches, athletes, parents or caretakers and stakeholders can act now. The Sandglass Sport Success model is a blueprint that poses challenges of ‘participation’, ‘early specialisation’ and ‘high-performance’. ...

This article is contributed by Bjorn Galjaardt Does coaching means to achieve results and reach set targets? Coaching to win! However, this is only one perceived idea on coaching. True, there are goals that need to be achieved. The reality is that most coaches view coaching as a complex process that contributes to multiple facets of ...

This article was provided by Coaches Network By Micah Kurtz Doubt in an individual’s mind is the cancer that kills dreams and prevents individuals from pursuing and achieving their ambitious goals. Dream big. Starting quarterback. All-state. College scholarship. Academic All-American. Professional career. Encourage your student-athletes to set big goals that might be a bit intimidating. Once you have given your student-athletes permission to ...

The post was provided by Coaches Network by Chris Wellman Productive coaches spend 75 percent of their time teaching the sport to their players, and the other 25 percent of the time coaching. With younger athletes, this gap increases with teaching becoming more important. The problem is that many coaches don’t understand how to teach athletics effectively. Plus, ...

By Dr. Rob Bell Dr. Bell is a Mental Toughness Coach and Certified Consultant of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology.  He consults with hundreds of athletes, coaches, and teams and has served as the mental coach for PGA tour winners, USTA Champion, and Olympic Medalists.  He is also the author of several mental toughness books. ...

This article is republished with permission. The original article was written by Björn Galjaardt Approach for Success. The golden egg? Shortcut in becoming successful? A proven model everyone can use? Actually, a little bit of all. The skeptics will stop reading now, however I have to elaborate on the above. It’s an approach that is applied by ...

Do Your Personal Goals Take a Back Seat to Coaching? Here are 12 ways to help you carve out more time in your busy schedule. This post was provided by Busy.Coach By Mandy Green Carving out time in our busy schedules to accomplish things outside of our coaching lives isn’t easy. After all, we coaches are all too ...

This article was provided by Coaches Network By Alan Hargreaves and Richard Bate There is nothing worse than a player who won’t or can’t listen. Because successful communication with your players is crucial, it pays to have some insight into the field of knowledge called communication. This field of knowledge has much to teach us, including the ...

This article was provided by Coaches Network Coaches are constantly evaluating the athletes entrusted to their care and developing ways to help them improve. Good coaches do the same for themselves. In an article on the USA Volleyball coaches education site, http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Volleyball Corey Radford from the USAV’s Florida Region offers advice for optimizing your coaching mindset. Here are a ...

Video touches every part of sports in the modern climate. Here’s why it matters and how all coaches should use it. We know the value of video at Hudl. It’s the bedrock of our company, the cornerstone we’ve used to build our entire structure. At this point, most coaches also see video’s value. They understand it can ...

This post was provided by Coach Dawn Writes By Dawn Redd-Kelly, Head Volleyball Coach at Beloit College. Communication builds trust. Trust generates commitment. Commitment fosters teamwork. Teamwork delivers results.”–Jon Gordon You want results?  Jon Gordon knows how to help. Communication builds trust. For the most part, the time of the coach who just hollers, but doesn’t explain has passed.  Have ...

This article was provided by Coach Dawn Writes By Coach Dawn Redd-Kelly,Head Volleyball Coach at Beloit College. “When leaders discuss their organizations’ vision in a specific way, not only is the vision better understood, the leaders are also seen as being more effective in general.”—Fast Company A team vision is only as good as the people who know ...

This post was originally post at Coach Dawn Writes and republished here with permission How should you deal with the player that is unhappy? This is tough but necessary work.   By Dawn Redd-Kelly, Head Volleyball Coach at Beloit College. Maybe they’re not happy with their playing time.  Or perhaps you’ve asked them to play a position and they’re ...

Professionals seek a standard of excellence, constantly improving and incorporating the best knowledge and research in your field in order to get better at what you do every single day. By John O’Sullivan, founder of Change the Game Project. “What makes you a professional?” That was the question Dr. Richard Bailey, Head of Research at the International Council ...

This post is courtesy of Coaches Network Communication is a two-way street. Not only do coaches need to be able to send clear messages that are interpreted as intended, they also need to receive messages from their athletes and staff. In a book published by Human Kinetics, Sports psychologists Damon Burton and Thomas Raedeke, describe what good communication looks ...

A couple of posts from Beloit College Head Volleyball Coach Dawn Redd-Kelly for today. Eliminate the Negative You can see the original post here:  Don’t Just Accentuate the Positive, Eliminate the Negative. Being a great head coach means success in competition.  I don’t know that we coaches can be successful if we don’t manage our team’s culture.  While ...

This post provided by Training-Conditioning No one likes difficult situations. But in all likelihood, as a coach, you will come face to face with an unforeseen problem at some point during the season. How you respond is critical. When it comes to facing complaints, Jenny McDowell, Head Volleyball Coach at Emory University, follows the advice she learned ...

How can coaches best draw out and utilize the knowledge and insights of their athletes? This article was provided by Coaches Network It’s no secret that many coaches seek advice and input from others, whether it be assistants, coaches that they had in the past, or even coaches of other teams. What they might not realize is ...

This post provided by Busy.Coach Coaches often have a handful of great ideas about how to improve their program. For many coaches it is difficult to put those ideas into action. Here are some thoughts getting better at following through. By Mandy Green I just finished up speaking at the United Soccer Coaches Association National Soccer Convention. A big ...

How can you keep yourself refreshed and excited every season? How can you keep yourself excited despite the repetitive lifestyle? This article and other helpful coaching tools can be found at Coach Dawn Writes By Dawn Redd-Kelly, Head Volleyball Coach at Beloit College. Coaches, our lives are like that movie Groundhog Day, where the main character relives the same ...

This article was written and submitted to me by Björn Galjaardt. The article has application to coaching regardless of the sport that you coach. Bright reflections playfully explore contemporary topics and aim to make you think. They are always teasing, sometimes provoking, but never judging.  With a flirt to sport and business… It’s like losing weight, in the beginning ...

Coaching is difficult. The job demands that you have knowledge, skill, patience and a drive to succeed. Most of you have these attributes or you would not be in this career. The stress and demands of the job can, however, drain your energy and enthusiasm. When that happens, how can you boost your motivation? The article ...

Coaching is a difficult career. You should not try to do it alone. Build yourself a network of  support to help. This support crew can help you be more successful and stay in the profession longer. This article and other helpful coaching tools can be found at Coach Dawn Writes By Dawn Redd-Kelly, Head Volleyball Coach at Beloit ...

Are you a leader who has reached a point in your coaching career where you no longer measure success in wins and losses, and in trophies and medals? If so, you are a coach of positive significance.  Coaches of positive significance realize that when you invest in people off the field, success on the field ...

This article was written and submitted to me by Björn Galjaardt. The article has application to coaching regardless of the sport that you coach. With a flirt to water polo… What do you do? How do you do it? Questions that are less important after understanding the why. Why do you wake up to go to training? ...

Coaches are very busy and their time is a precious commodity. Managing their time is one of the key components to their success. Here are 7 benefits to being committed to better time management. This post was provided  Busy.Coach, a site designed to help coaches manage their time and be more productive. By Mandy Green, I know that I ...

Great coaches and elite athletes understand that performance is a behavior, not an outcome. It is doing the little things correctly, moment to moment, day after day. But how do we do this in our teams? By John O’Sullivan, founder of Change the Game Project. Last week I received the following email (edited for anonymity). We get calls ...

By taking a transformational approach to coaching, you are more likely to get athletes to buy into your coaching style because they will see that you are there to support them. To take this approach ask yourself 4 Key Questions. This article was provided by Coaches Network Having a “common language” in your program means that everyone ...