What is a Successful

CoachYou must be a winner?

Can all coaches be winners? Yes, with knowledge

So, what is a winner when it comes to coachingA person who understands the sportA person who has a fire for perfectionA person who prepares for the seasonA person who can motivate his or her selfA person who can lead others to victoryA person who accepts responsibilityA person who never gives up

The Eight Aspects to Successful Coaching

TeacherSystemTeamAthlete MotivationOvercoming RoadblocksSelf MotivationLove your kidsLove your family

1.Being a Successful TeacherCan you teach what you do not know??????

Where can one find the knowledge?BooksCoachesClinics

2.Develop a System for SuccessIt is said that there are many roads to Rome

Rockford and Their SystemPaavo System Lydiard and Traverse CityJack Daniels and National Champions

Believe in the system and then go to work

Workout Planning - Number one for Runner Success

Do not plan day to dayPlan daily- weekly-season at the beginningLog those times everydayChart Progress Progress ProgressYou cannot know where you are going if you do not know where you have beenPLAN PLAN PLAN PLAN

3.Team Team TeamTrack and Cross Country are Team Sports!!!!!!It is what makes it fun

You pick your captainsTeam Awards- newspapers-banners- announcementsIf you coach long enough:

You will have a great runnerYou will have a great team

But if you do not stress the team concept you will never achieve the status of having a great program and being a GREAT COACH

4. MOTIVATION of ATHLETESWhere does motivation come from?

Internal MotivationRare for athlete

External MotivationParents

ReligionCoach

The Coach is the Key Motivator

Do you have the Knowledge to get the job done?Do you have the ability to lead to get the job done?Do you have the commitment to get the job done?Do you have the desire to get the job done?

Race Day Motivation

Go over the competitionHave a plan – go over eventsPack running or Fast and hold onSlow and pass or Even paceMental Prep for field events, starts, hurdlesStories of the past (jean story)Be Prepared to change the planWhatever you do

DO NOT CONVINCE THEM OF THE IMPOSSIBLE

Do not lose their trustOnce lost,

they may never believe you again

THEY WILL DO WHAT YOU EXPECT THEM TO DOPYGMALION - IS THERE REALLY A LIMIT?

Four FactorsClimate – what is the environmental situationInput – correct physical and mental trainingOutput – their performanceFeedback – go over the performanceChallenge yourself to do these things- Make sure you do these things to get the results that you want

Final Thought On MotivationEveryone is a house of four rooms,

Physical, Emotional, Mental, Spiritual , unless we go into each room everyday, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person

It is our job as coaches to touch every room every day for every kid

5.Handle the RoadblocksStudent excuses It is hard to coach without devoted kids (1/2 sheet)

Now op top of that we have other roadblocks from our school system (1/2 sheet)

6. Self MotivationNo one can stay motivated without

Knowledge - System – Family - Belief in oneselfWhat are our limits?????

Our school just does not support me- WHY?????We just do not have enough athletes - WHY?????

These kids do not work hard enough - WHY?????If I just had some talent - WHY DON’T YOU??????WE NEED TO LOOK AT OURSELVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR TEAM BY CHANGING YOURSELF

Be Positive When someone tells you it cannot be done, remind yourself how many times they have been wrong.Be Happy

Enjoy the athletes you have, do not worry about those who are not there

Success is knowing what you are doing, loving what you are doing, and believing what you are doing

Be PreparedKnowledge Knowledge Knowledge

Work Harder

We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.

Ask yourself

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO DURING THE

OFFSEASON????

The difference between a successful person and

others is not their lack of strength, maybe not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

The Man on Top of the Mountain did not

Fall There!!!

Accept the Results - You manufactured

them!!!!!!!

Only you can hold yourself back, only you can stand in the way.

Only you can help yourself

7. Love Your KidsThey are:

KidsStudentsHumans - not perfectAthletes

UniformShapeTeamConferenceStateCompetitive at all levels

Love them - and they will die for you

Use them for your record and they will not help your team

Ask YourselfWho are you here for?????

8.Family

Your won lost record is not importantSpending too much time trying to winSpending more time with your team than your familyWAKE- UP Or when you do there will be no one to share your success with and then and only then will you realize what success really is!

Remember that the best relationship is one in which

your love for each other, exceeds your need for each

other Dalai Lama

Everyone is a house of four rooms, the physical, emotional, spiritual and the mental, unless we go into each everyday, even

if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person

Make sure you touch all four for you everyday and life will be good to you. For all the

success in the world is worth nothing without

someone to share it with!

Remember ThisEvery snot nosed, arrogant, jerk kid

you will have on your team is someone’s special love,

It might be a parent, grand-parent, brother, sister, neighbor

But he or she is someone’s special love - And if not

They will need you more than ever!

Go out and earn the title

COACH

it is within your grasp