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Every talk listed once — the colored tags show who it’s for. 22 presentations.
Captains and Coaches Workshops
A half day workshop where coaches and team leaders work together to develop team values, clear behavioral standards (core covenants), clarify the captains role and be proactive with potential team problems.
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Captains, 7 Ways to Lead Your Team · Life Lessons · First Steps to Successful Teams, Core Covenants · Proactive Leadership, Empowering Team Leaders
First Steps to Successful Teams
An in-depth look at the first things that must be done when building a team — Guiding Principles (establishing Core Covenants, identity and vision with actions) and Pride (establishing an inner circle based upon shared joy).
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Captains, 7 Ways to Lead Your Team
Do not leave leadership of your teams to chance — teach and empower your captains how to lead successfully: be first to serve, lead by example, communicate, praise others, protect and defend the team, confront violations of standards, and encourage relentlessly.
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The Power of Your Words
A coach’s words can either be encouraging or destructive. A step-by-step method for working with challenging behaviors, changing attitudes and developing mutual respect.
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Teach Attitude First · Working with Challenging Athletes
The Impact of Trust
When athletes trust their coaches and when teams trust each other it has a tremendous impact on performance and potential. What allows trust, how to improve individual and team trust, and the consequences of distrust.
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Playing with Confidence
Understand what true confidence looks and feels like. Discover the competitor’s mindset, how to earn confidence, be at your best when needed most, take chances and develop a plan of attack.
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“There Was This Coach…” Concepts of Motivation
There are six motivational concepts that separate teachers and coaches. Success is proportional to the ability to plan, teach, relate and motivate. Adapted for each audience — “There Was This Teacher…” for the classroom, and Motivational Concepts for Successful Leaders in business.
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Life Lessons for Athletes
Have standards, not rules. The clearer the behavioral standards, the more likely athletes will rise to them — discipline, teachable spirit, mental toughness, accountability, integrity, selflessness, pride and humility, defined in age-appropriate terms.
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Coaching Foundations — Keys for a Successful Season
Topics chosen to fit your staff: athlete stages, coaching stages, practice planning, parent meetings, credibility, trust, motor learning, motivation, team culture, game coaching and behavioral standards.
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Youth Coaching, 4 Keys · The Impact of Trust · Motivational Strategies for Coaches
Teaching Character Through Sport — Using Themes of Character
From Bruce Brown’s book, 1001 Motivational Messages, this is a guide for coaches to teach positive character traits during the season using a thematic approach — how to teach a value, turn belief into behavior, and develop athletes of character.
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Team Building Through Positive Conditioning
This is a completely different philosophical and application method for conditioning — a powerful way to build teams and turn a potentially negative part of sport into a positive. Stop using conditioning as punishment.
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Team Building Through Positive Conditioning
Building Positive Athletic Traditions
From Bruce Brown’s book, 101 Positive Athletic Traditions, this presentation shows the value of coach-created traditions: great memories, motivation to live up to standards, pride, team and community bonding — and preventing hazing.
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101 Positive Athletic Traditions · Athletic Traditions, Round 2
Transitioning Athletes from Youth Sports to High School
What responsibilities does the “feeder” coach have to the high school coach and what does the high school coach owe in return, so athletes have the best opportunity for success.
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Coaching Stages
This presentation identifies five stages of coaching. Every coach is in one of these stages — the positives, negatives and requirements to move toward the highest level: coaching for significance.
Request this presentation →Speaking with Administrators
An in-depth look at the first things that must be done when building a team within a school or athletic department — guiding principles, core covenants, identity and vision, and establishing pride.
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Speaking with Volunteer Coaches
Keys for a Successful Season: youth coaching, coaching your own child, gaining credibility, developing an inclusive team culture, athlete stages, planning, motor learning and motivation without punishment.
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Speaking with Captains and Leadership Students
Do not leave leadership of your teams to chance — the seven leadership principles brought to student leaders, with supporting material on team building and leading peers well.
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The Role of Parents in Athletics
A straightforward message from athletes to their parents about how adults can help their athletes perform, create good memories and demonstrate respect — from the perspective of young people.
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Raising a Confident Athlete
Steps for parents to become a confidence builder. Applicable for any performance activity.
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Confidence: How Parents Can Help Build a Confident Athlete
The Seven Essentials of Great Teams
From Bruce Brown’s book, The Seven Essentials of Great Teams, another 1001, this presentation covers leadership, guiding principles, pride, communication, motivation, persistence and a positive, team-first attitude.
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Improving Your Existing Team
How leaders can make positive changes to a current team — a leadership assessment checklist, creating vision, who to bring to the team to add value, and how to raise morale.
Request this presentation →Traits of Elite Competitors
Designed specifically for your sales force — as the market gets tougher, the traits of elite competitors increase the chance your team will succeed.
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Meet our speakers
Every talk above is delivered by someone who coached it first — fourteen teachers, coaches and athletic leaders who travel nationwide.
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Tell us about your event and we’ll match the right speaker and presentation — and reply with availability and a quote. School memberships include a $300 credit toward an in-person speaking event — see membership.
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