The Double-Goal Coach: Positive Coaching Tools for Honoring the Game and Developing Winners in Sports and Life FROM THE PUBLISHER
The Double-Goal Coach is filled with powerful coaching tools based on Jim Thompson's Positive Coaching Alliance. These strategies reflect the "best-practices" of elite coaches and the latest research in sports psychology.Hundreds of workshops have shaped these tools for maximum effectiveness and ease of use.The lessons and activities can be used in the very next practice to make sports fun and to get the best from players.
The Double-Goal Coach provides the framework for coaches and parents to transform youth sports so sports can transform youth -- allowing young athletes to enjoy sports while learning valuable life lessons.
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Many problems are associated with contemporary youth sports, including the "win-at-all-cost" mentality, the unruly behavior of parents, on- and off-the-field violence, and showboating and taunting athletes. A coach for more than 20 years, Thompson (director, Public Management Program, Stanford Graduate Sch.) founded the Positive Coaching Alliance, which has trained over 25,000 coaches and 250,000 children nationwide. Here he offers his alternative approach to coaching, recommending coaching techniques and explaining how to develop a team culture. As Thompson ably demonstrates, sports can teach children many important lessons, including the value of hard work, teamwork, commitment, and leadership. Highly recommended for all public libraries; at this price, the book is a steal.-Tim Delaney, SUNY at Oswego Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
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