Providing Insights on Leadership and Success. Coach Bechler is a John Maxwell Leadership Team Member.
As a head coach, you can’t be the entire program. You need assistants and you need captains that can help you lead the program towards success.
Great team captains make your job easier as a coach. Everyone knows this, but having strong team leadership is not as simple as a well-meaning wish and a snap of the fingers. Most coaches know what kind of captain and leadership they want, but oftentimes it doesn’t play out that way.
Great teams have great teammates. No disagreements there, but it isn’t easy to find great teammates. Not everybody that makes your team will come in as a great teammate — and that is where your presence and team culture kicks in.
The clearest signal that you have an athlete that is a great teammate is their desire to serve others. When athletes have the mindset of serving other team members, the entire program benefits. Legendary basketball coach John Wooden put it well when he said, “It’s amazing what you can achieve when you don’t care who gets the credit.”
Serving others is at the very core of sports — and it’s paramount to your team’s success.
As a coach, you’re constantly trying to lead your team as far as you can each season. This is true regardless of your resources or talent.
However, some coaches are blessed to be a part of programs that have high-performing individuals. High-performing teams usually have individuals that are more talented than most, but as coach, your role is to get the most out of them.
Student-Athlete of the Year Award Winners Announced
The Leadership Playbook announces the 2021-2022 Student-Athlete of the Year Award Winners
Akron, OH: TheLeadershipPlaybook.com has announced their 2021-2022 Student-Athlete of the Year recipients. The award honors those individuals who exemplify sportsmanship, positive leadership, or good teamwork.
The 2021-2022 Student-Athlete of the Year recipients are …
Kate Leavell is VP of Leadership Development for the Jon Gordon Companies and author of the best-selling book Stick Together. Kate is also a former NCAA lacrosse coach. She has written four books including the very popular Confessions of an Imperfect Coach.
Click here to see Kate’s complete bio.
Today’s guest on “The Coachable Coach” series is Jared Ronai, head men’s basketball coach at Mount Vernon Nazarene University.
“The Coachable Coach” series on the Success is a Choice Podcast Network goes beyond the X’s and O’s as Jamy Bechler talks with some of the best sports coaches.
After two different head coaching stints, I was presented an opportunity to coach at a dream job. It was the same type of school I was currently at but had more resources, more stability, a much nicer campus, and nearly every key player was returning from the prior year’s Top-25 team. The coach had left to take a big-time Division I head coaching job and they wanted me to replace him.
When you listen to coaches speak at clinics and conferences, they are quick to outline what they’ve done to rebuild a bad program. Most stories present an example to follow or a cautionary tale. In that dream job, I took the program from first to worst. That’s right, I ruined that team in just one year.
Not only did we have one of the worst seasons in school history and a 16-win DECREASE but we also lost twice to the team that I had just left.
#Oops.
Today’s guest on “The Coachable Coach” series is Dr. Barry Davis, head baseball coach at Rider University, the 2021 MAAC Champions and NCAA Tournament team.
“The Coachable Coach” series on the Success is a Choice Podcast Network goes beyond the X’s and O’s as Jamy Bechler talks with some of the best sports coaches.
They may take our lives . . . BUT THEY’LL NEVER TAKE OUR FREEDOM!!!
Most of the time when we think of verbal leadership, we think of Hollywood speeches with the hero inspiring countless individuals to follow him into battle like the movies Braveheart, Gladiator, or 300.
We also might think of Tim Tebow giving the “Promise” speech and then backing it up on the way to a national championship.
We may not be Michael Jordan, Tim Tebow, Kobe Bryant, or William Wallace in Braveheart, but we all can be verbal leaders.
In fact, as long as we have a tongue, we should be verbal leaders.
Let me say that again for the people in the back…
Not only can we all be verbal leaders but we all should be verbal leaders.