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…
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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…
Walk Away Drill
On practicing — not just preaching — composure under provocation. Topics covered: the realization that coaches explain how to behave when tempers flare,…
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…
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?…
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…
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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…
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.”
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Walk Away Drill
On practicing — not just preaching — composure under provocation. Topics covered: the realization that coaches explain how to behave when tempers flare,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Self-Correct
On self-correction as a motivational and teaching technique used by great coaches. Topics covered: the standard model of immediate correction (simple,…
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.…
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…
Power of Trust with Rob Miller - Proactive Coaching
Power of Trust with Rob Miller (Short Clip)
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
Leadership - Leaders Must Be Developed
Leadership - Leaders Must Be Developed (Short Promotional Message)
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…
Intentional Coaching 1
From Rob Miller, the first in a series on intentional coaching — the process of developing intentional teams through athletes' choices, leader…
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…
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…
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:…
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…
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:…
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…
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…
Culture Traits of Good Teams with Bruce Brown - Proactive Coaching
Culture Traits of Good Teams (Short Clip)
Culture Feedback with Bruce Brown - Proactive Coaching
Culture Feedback (Short Clip)
Controlling Your Thermostat
On managing the emotional "coaching thermostat." Topics covered: why coaching is an inherently emotional profession and why frustration is normal — the…
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?…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Best Players, Best Workers
Best Players, Best Workers (Short Clip)
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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"…
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…
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…
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…
Selflessness
Selflessness (Short Clip)
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…
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…
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…
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