Double-Goal Coach™: “Coaching for Winning and Life Lessons”
The workshop begins by defining the Double-Goal Coach™ as one who strives to win and works to prepare his/her team to play at its highest level, and, at the same time, teaches life lessons (teamwork, dedication, bouncing back from mistakes, etc.) to his/her players. We explain that these are not mutually exclusive goals.

Various scenarios are presented. We ask coaches to pair up to discuss how they would handle this situation. This scenario leads us into the discussion of PCA’s themes.

Principle #1 - Honoring the Game
Honoring the Game goes to the ROOTS of the matter, where we all have to RESPECT the Rules, Opponents, Officials, Teammates and one’s Self. Coaches receive specific tools to help them introduce the concept of ROOTS to their players and parents.

Principle #2 - Redefining "Winner"
Here we talk about how the American culture is a Win-at-all-cost culture, and we have to work to shift our focus away from the scoreboard. What’s more important is a “Mastery” definition, where we care most about our players’ giving their maximum effort, continuing to learn and improve, and dealing well with mistakes when they happen. Again, we introduce specific tools (such as "flushing" mistakes, in which a coach makes the motion of flushing the toilet after a player makes a mistake, which symbolizes that the mistake is done and everybody’s moving on). Coaches can use these tools to Redefine Winner with their teams and parents.

Principle #3 - Filling the Emotional Tank
This theme talks about how players who have FULL emotional tanks will have more fun and perform better. The thought-provoking piece of this theme is that, according to research studies, coaches should achieve a 5:1 ratio of positives to negatives with their players to keep their tanks full! We talk about how coaches can use both verbal and non-verbal cues to attain this ratio in a meaningful way. We stress that coaches are still teaching when they are giving positive feedback, and we illustrate how they can effectively correct mistakes within the context of this 5:1 ratio.

This workshop helps coaches help student-athletes become "competitors." Coaches learn why the prevailing notion of "competitor" is unhealthy for youth and our society. Attendees also learn the distinction between Competition, which focuses on athletes striving together to excel, and De-Competition, in which opponents are demonized.

The workshop borrows from the Olympic motto: Citius, Altius, Fortius (Faster, Higher, Stronger) and introduces concepts and coaching tools to make athletes “better”. Benefits include a dozen specific exercises for coaches to help student-athletes improve themselves, their teammates and the game as a whole. “Developing Competitors” equips high school coaches with powerful tools and the framework for creating an inspired team culture that produces competitors of whom we can all be proud.

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Positive Coaching Alliance Workshop Courses