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Video Intentional Coaching 2 - Building Leaders From Rob Miller in the intentional coaching series (the four avenues: athletes making great choices, building leaders, creating support through parents… Watch now Video Feedback Is the Norm On building a program where feedback is expected rather than resented — the growth-minded standard Bruce sums up as “expect it, accept it, embrace it.” Watch now Video Parents, Releasing Your Athlete Part of the Role of Parents in Athletics series — on the single practice his most successful athletes credited for getting them where they got: parents… Watch now Video Parents During the Game Continuing the Role of Parents in Athletics series — what athletes say helps them during competition itself, the part of the experience kids love most… Watch now Video Parents Before the Game The first of four or five 10-minute topics drawn from one of Proactive's most requested presentations of the past two decades, The Role of Parents in… Watch now Video Parents After the Game Finishing his series on the role of parents in athletics — covering parents' responsibilities to their athletes after the game. Topics covered: the exit… Watch now Video New Additions from the Original Presentation On the role of parents in athletics (speaker not named in the recording; context — age 48, a daughter in trap shooting — indicates Rob Miller rather than… Watch now Video I Love Watching You Play Sharing the origin of the now-famous phrase from his Role of Parents in Athletics presentation — Proactive's most requested presentation nationwide, built… Watch now Video What Is Your Track Record Reframing what a coach's track record really is. Topics covered: how a track record creates credibility, trust, confidence, and hireability; why wins and… Watch now Video What Drives Your Team Drawn from 20 years of watching thousands of high school and college teams — on the six things that drive teams, presented as an ascending ladder with the… Watch now Video Walk Away Drill On practicing — not just preaching — composure under provocation. Topics covered: the realization that coaches explain how to behave when tempers flare,… Watch now Video Turning Around Athletic Programs Delivered with a hand-drawn U-shaped curve representing a program's decline and recovery — on a key truth about turnarounds. Topics covered: why most… Watch now Video Trust on Teams Drawing on the presentation and booklet The Impact of Trust. Topics covered: how visible high trust and low trust are — you could watch two teams practice… Watch now Video Thematic Approach to Teaching Character - #1 - Character Traits & Quotes Recorded on a spring day at his Camano Island, Washington home overlooking the bay toward the Cascades, where Proactive hosts its coaching retreats — the… Watch now Video Thematic Approach to Teaching Character #3 - Spotlighting The final segment in his three-part series on teaching character through sport with themes of the week or month (part one: choosing traits and bombarding… Watch now Video Thematic Approach to Teaching Character #2 - Presenters Second in a three-part series on teaching character through sport using a thematic approach (part one covered identifying the character traits your sport… Watch now Video Tale of Two Teams Comparing two teams that do the exact same job in radically different ways — and what that means for any team culture. Topics covered: the flat tire on… Watch now Video Stages of Coaching On the five stages coaches reside in — which we largely get to choose, and which your athletes can identify for you instantly. Topics covered: the… Watch now Video Stages of Athletes On the predictable stages every athlete moves through, and the coach's job to be what each stage needs. Topics covered: the joy stage (pure love of… Watch now Video Shared Joy On the two kinds of pride — drawn from the Life Lessons booklet and the Captains and Coaches workshop. Topics covered: the bad kind of pride (arrogance,… Watch now Video Self-Correct On self-correction as a motivational and teaching technique used by great coaches. Topics covered: the standard model of immediate correction (simple,… Watch now Video Red Shirt Warriors Recorded on a beautiful fall day on Camano Island — telling a story he uses in his presentation The Impact of Trust, about what allows you to be trusted.… Watch now Video Preparing for a Parent Meeting On the pre-season parent meeting — one of only a couple of official parent meetings a coach gets (the other being the end-of-year banquet), and a one-shot… Watch now Video Power of Trust with Rob Miller Power of Trust with Rob Miller (Short Clip) Watch now Video Positive Intent Recorded in January from California's Central Coast, where he escaped the cold to spend time with grandkids — on a communication concept for teams. Topics… Watch now Video Overview of Shaping On shaping — the third stage of teaching a character trait (define, model, shape, reinforce) and the one where coaches start to lose their effectiveness.… Watch now Video Methods for Selecting Team Leaders Surveying the different methods of choosing team leaders — all drawn from his book Proactive Leadership (page 50), written as a semester's worth of lesson… Watch now Video Life Lessons for Athletes Recorded in the Proactive guest house on Camano Island, where coaches, team leaders, and athletes come for retreats — introducing the presentation and… Watch now Video Life Lessons and Trust The closing video of a four-part Proactive Coaching mentoring series for teachers, coaches, and school athletic programs (the speaker is not named in the… Watch now Video Leadership - Leaders Must Be Developed Leadership - Leaders Must Be Developed (Short Promotional Message) Watch now Video Jackass Farm Built around a memorable line from a crusty old baseball coach at a multi-sport clinic early in Bruce's career: "If you keep 24 great kids, you can keep… Watch now Video Intentional Coaching 1 From Rob Miller, the first in a series on intentional coaching — the process of developing intentional teams through athletes' choices, leader… Watch now Video Improve Your Team Covering two sides of the same coin. Topics covered: the only six ways to improve any team — athletic, school, youth organization, NFL, or business… Watch now Video First Rate People Hire First Rate People Recorded in his favorite reading spot in the guest house — drawn from the Impact of Trust presentation and booklet. Topics covered: the three things that… Watch now Video Faceless Opponents On a concept he introduced to a successful Division I football team whose coach assigned him to cut down their personal-foul penalties. Topics covered:… Watch now Video Every Athlete Has a Story Recorded from his home on Camano Island, Washington — on one of Proactive's core beliefs: every athlete you coach has a story, and as coaches we need to… Watch now Video Defining Athletic Attitude Drawn from the booklet Teach Attitude First and the Power of Your Words presentation — on actually defining the word coaches preach most. Topics covered:… Watch now Video Dad's Home On the advice he received in his forties that he wishes he'd had in his twenties: how to transition from coach to family each night. Topics covered: the… Watch now Video Cutting On one of the most difficult parts of coaching: cutting players. Topics covered: seeing tryouts from the player's side — the courage it takes to come out… Watch now Video Culture Traits of Good Teams with Bruce Brown Culture Traits of Good Teams (Short Clip) Watch now Video Culture Feedback with Bruce Brown Culture Feedback (Short Clip) Watch now Video Controlling Your Thermostat On managing the emotional "coaching thermostat." Topics covered: why coaching is an inherently emotional profession and why frustration is normal — the… Watch now Video Commitment - The Five Levels On commitment — answering the question coaches always raise ("we need more commitment from our athletes") with the sharper question: commitment to what?… Watch now Video Coaching Against a Vision On a different way of framing who you're really coaching against. Topics covered: the trap of coaching against opponents — playing up to good teams and… Watch now Video Coach Wooden Telling a story that he says changed his life, especially his life as a coach. Topics covered: young Bruce in his twenties, hungry to grow ("I thought I… Watch now Video Building Confidence – Believe in Them On one strategy for building confidence in athletes: believing in them before they're successful, so they can believe in themselves. Topics covered: why… Watch now Video Building Allegiances On how coaches can build allies — because coaching is a lonely job at times, and anyone who coaches long enough will face attacks, often from parents who… Watch now Video Best Players, Best Workers Best Players, Best Workers (Short Clip) Watch now Video Beliefs on Changing Behavior The companion piece to the five-step Power of Your Words process — laying out the beliefs coaches should hold about changing athlete behavior. Topics… Watch now Video Additional Questions for Challenging Athletes Extending his presentation The Power of Your Words on working with challenging athletes. Topics covered: a recap of the five-step behavior-change process… Watch now Video 7 Ways to Develop Role Players On building teams where every role is understood, embraced, and celebrated. Topics covered: why every great team has multiple roles that must all be… Watch now Video 7 Steps to Resolve Team Problems On resolving team problems — because the only guarantee in any athletic season is that there will be issues (playing time, injuries, behaviors), since you… Watch now Video 5 Steps to Changing Behavior Expanding on his presentation The Power of Your Words — the coach's ability to help kids change behaviors when they don't arrive with the attitudes the… Watch now Video 4 Roles Drawn from The Role of Parents in Athletics — one of Proactive's most-requested presentations, with companion DVD and booklet built almost entirely from… Watch now Video 10 Traits of Successful Athletic Programs Distilling the common traits he sees in great athletic programs from working with teams around the country and the world, offered as a self-assessment for… Watch now Video 10 Thoughts for When Your Team Is Stuck in Average Recorded outdoors by his fireplace on a cool spring day — offering ten thoughts for leaders whose teams are stuck in average: winning what they "should"… Watch now Video 10 Thoughts for When Your Team Is Struggling With ten strategies for leaders whose teams are flat-out struggling — including seasons you know will be hard before they start. The ten: bring tremendous… Watch now Video 10 Thoughts for When Your Team Is Performing Well The companion to his struggling-team and stuck-in-average talks — on what leaders must keep doing in the middle of a great run, rather than sitting back… Watch now Video Teachable Spirit Recorded on a beautiful fall day on Camano Island — on one of the first character traits taught in the Life Lessons booklet and presentation, following… Watch now Video Selflessness Selflessness (Short Clip) Watch now Video Givers and Takers On the concept of givers and takers — a presentation he recently delivered to a Division I football team so players could examine themselves, their… Watch now Video Discipline On one more character trait from the booklet, presentation, and DVD Life Lessons for Athletes. Topics covered: why every kid has his own definition of… Watch now Video Culture Keepers Recorded on a cool, wet autumn day in the Pacific Northwest — for coaches who have intentionally built a team culture through the Captains and Coaches… Watch now