YOUTH COACHING

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YOUTH COACHING
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CONFIDENCE IS EVERYTHING

• BE POSITIVE
• Recognise and highlight strengths
• Show interest in their activities outside sport
• Communicate with parents
• BE PREPARED or at least LOOK PREPARED

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The Start...

• What do I want to achieve?
• What does the PLAYER want to achieve?
• What does the TEAM want to achieve?

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The Dream

• Nothing is ever achieved that stays in a dream.
  Take action.
• Goal settingteam and individual
• Define the goal, pursue the goal.

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THE DREAM

• LEADERS BELIEVERS
• FOLLOWERS DOUBTERS

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The Leadership Group

• Influential and/or respected
• Valued member of the team
• Ability to walk the talk
• DO AS I DO NOT DO AS I SAY

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The Plan

• Be prepared
• Short-term and long-term targets
• Your standards (non-negotiable)
• Their agreed standards
• Listen to their opinions and be prepared to be
  flexible in your plans

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The Sell

• Delivery by the leadership group
• This is OUR team, not YOUR team
• BUY IN?
• Outline the steps
• Outline the priorities
• WE NEED YOU, EVERYONE HAS A ROLE

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Take control

• Fundamental skills Back to basics
• Work through your plan
• Be patient, be disciplined
• Ask for opinions REGULARLY
• Admit it when you make a mistake

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Re-inforcement

• Keep re-visiting your goals and targets
• Benchmark off Number 1
• Visual encouragement and reminders
• TV, videos, posters, books, quotes, diaries
• Success comes to those who make it happen, not
  to those who let it happen.

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Bumps in the road

• Stay positive
• If you believe that what you are doing is right,
  then keep doing it
• Choose advice carefully

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Challenges on the field

• Player performance
• Player dissatisfaction
• Reset individual targets and goals,
  incentives
• Changing team dynamics
• Who are our leaders now?
• Do we need to change anything?

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Challenges off the field

• Arrested for assault, disorderly behaviour,
  DIC, broken hands from fighting, pregnant
  girlfriends, car crashes, failed drug tests,
  drunk at training, stealing

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What to do!?

• Discipline
• They agreed to the standards,
• they accept the punishment
• No favorites
• Stick to your guns
• 3 strikes rule
• Each case judged on its merits
• HELP ME!

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• Dream big and encourage your athletes to do the
  same
• Set realistic targets and goals
• Develop your leaders
• Keep benchmarking off Number 1
• This is OUR team, these are OUR rules
• BELIEVE IN YOURSELF