The Wisdom Of Coaching

The wisdom of coaching is a search for the best philosophies of coaching.  A philosophy is a set of beliefs that are often found within sayings, phrases & quotes. From the heart comes carefully selected words that emphasize our true beliefs.

Mission + Vision + Values + Goals = Philosophy

Mission is the purpose of our journey.
Vision is the future destination we want to reach & the experience we want to create.
Values are the guides on the journey we use to accomplish our goals.
Goals are the steps and milestones we take on the journey towards the successful completion of the vision.

Philosophy the the combination of mission, vision, values & goals working together to accomplish the dream.

The Ultimate Questions
1. Why am I Coaching?
2. What will my players forever remember about the season?
3. What kind of relationships will they build?
4. How can we measure our progress & improvement?
5. What will we learn and what legacy will we secure?

Practice Philosophy
Practice is a race against time.
Practice makes permanent.
Never practice until you get it right. Always practice until you can't get it wrong.

Pygmalion Philosophy
If we take people as we find them, we may make them worse, but if we treat them as though they are what they should be, we help them to become what they are capable of becoming. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Summit Forever Philosophy
You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.
-Rene Daumal

Ten Coaching Principles
Principle #1 Players first, winning second.
Principle #2 The team is the star.
Principle #3 Teach through questions, the game is the teacher.
Principle #4 Praise what you want to see repeated.
Principle #5 Catch them doing something right.
Principle #6 Accountability builds responsibility.
Principle #7 We get what we inspect not what we inspect.
Principle #8 Not trusting your players is not trusting your coaching ability
Principle #9 The greatest risk is not to risk at all.
Principle #10 Challenge with encouragement...always see them as they are going to be

Player Development X3 Philosophy
1. The level of competition
2. The quality of your teammates
3. The ability of your coach

Tactics
Tactics are the point of attack.
Tactics concentrate forces at the decisive point.
Tactics are conceptual actions advancing towards a specific goal.
Tactics are the details of strategy.
Tactics are a sequence of moves resulting in a tangible gain.
Tactics are the next moves that threaten to capture an important moment.
Tactics are the techniques used to create the advantages.
Tactics are the means to carry out the demands of the moment.
Tactics move us from one milestone to another.
Tactics are selected by the coach and performed by the players.
Tactics need to be changed every ten years to maintain one's superiority.
Tactics are always visible whereas strategy is to remain invisible.
Tactics means doing what you can with what you have.
Tactics are 90% taught and certain. The final 10% is the true test of coaching
Tactics requires sight, strategy requires vision.
Tactics without strategy is the sound before defeat.
Tactics are the art of analysis.
Tactics are the mastering of experience
Tactics win games. Players lose games. -Brian Clough
Tactics are the methods for sinning small battles.
Tactics are the means to capture a goal.

Presuppositions
We respond to our experience and not to others reality.

The meaning of communication is the response we get.
Always present the choices available.
We challenge then change our limiting beliefs.
The map is not the territory.
What one man can do any man can do.
There is no failure only feedback.
Choice is better than no choice.
A solution belongs to every problem.
Relationship equals rapport.
We are not our actions we are our intentions.

The Greatest X3
1. The greatest weakness is the awareness of none.
2. The greatest ability is availability.
3. The greatest risk is not to risk.

3 Sayings
1. You can do anything, but not everything. —David Allen
2. Simplicity is the ultimate complexity.
3. Without vision we cannot focus.

"If we don't have the right character our minds will play tricks on us and will lead us in unsuccessfull paths."
“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure."

The Only Person In The Stadium
"Let's face it, if there are over a 100,00 people in the stadium the only person who doesn't know anything is the coach. -Otto Rehhagel