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In The April 2017 Issue Of The Coaching and Leadership Journal

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Not all readers become leaders but all leaders must be readers! Here is some of what you will find in the April 2017 issue of The Coaching and Leadership Journal: “Donnie Baseball” on being a great teammate Their thoughts—David Marsh, USA Women’s Swim Coach The good humor leader Playground lessons are lacking Professor Fran Dunphy The real leadership lessons of Steve Jobs Is too much choice a bad thing? Qualities of a TEAM leader Freedom through discipline Hardball for leaders Test your judging skills And Much More!  Subscriptions Include: A one-year subscription to The Coaching & Leadership Journal (12 print issues). Access to The Coaching and Leadership Journal website. Updated monthly, the subscriber site contains articles, motivational videos, pictures, past issues and more. The current issue of The Coaching & Leadership Journal online (PDF) Access to The Team Leadership Report, a weekly blog covering timely and relevant coaching and leadership in

Criticism And The Average Person

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One difference between a successful person and an average person is how much criticism they can take. The average person cannot take much criticism and that is why they remain average all their lives. That is why they fail to be leaders. Average people live in fear of what someone else may say or think of them. So they live their lives going along and getting along with all the other average people--living in fear of criticism. Living in fear of what someone else might think of them or criticize them for. People are always critical of other people. --Adapted from richdadpoordad _____________________________________________ Coach Yourself: A Motivational Guide For Coaches And Leaders About This Book Coach Yourself is a unique book, compiled exclusively for coaches to provide you with physical, mental and spiritual motivation throughout the season. In his follow-up to A Season In Words, veteran coach Dan Spainhour arms you with quotes and motivational ideas to

Lessons From Five Coaching Legends

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John Wooden Never mistake activity for achievement. The legendary UCLA basketball coach, who won 10 NCAA championships, would do well today in a world with endless email and tweets. His Pyramid of Success is timeless. And so is this maxim. Busyness does not equal business. Tom Coughlin Be willing to change.  When Coughlin joined the New York Giants as head coach in 2004, he demanded players show up for meetings and practices five minutes early. Otherwise he fined them. This earned him the nickname "Colonel Coughlin." However, the hard line approach didn't work initially and only when he fully changed, did the Giants go on to great success, winning two Super Bowls in dramatic fashion. Bill Belichick Ignore the noise. Do your job. It's hard to argue with the success of "the hooded one." Two of his maxims are "ignore the noise" and "do your job." Simple, yet effective. And his players not only repeat these mantras, bu

Terrific Advice For Climbing The Coaching Ladder From Two Terrific Football Coaches

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You treat every job like it’s the last job you’ll ever have because you never know--it might be. From that standpoint, whether you’re a GA, or your a coordinator, or you’re a head coach, whatever level you’re at, you want to put everything you’ve got into that job. If you do that and concern yourself with that and you’re at a good place with good people and have good fortune, everything will work out fine for you. I’ve always told our guys that. Wherever you’re at or whatever role you have just put all you have into that and people will notice.--Rich Rodriguez, Head Coach at Arizona One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was actually something I read. Bill Parcells has an excerpt from something he wrote on how to lead a team, one of the things he said in that, and I’ll paraphrase, “If you want to be a leader, then lead.” What he was saying was when he was a young coach he basically tried to earn the ability to lead and waited until people wanted to listen to him. He finall

Culture And Vision Need Each Other

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When Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous and fantastic I Have A Dream Speech  in 1963, he inspired people from all over the nation to participate in the Civil Rights Movement. But the movement was about so much more than listening to a speech. In fact, King and his leaders had been describing and modeling a very specific culture to the participants for years: one of nonviolence and passive resistance. They demonstrated it over and over, and the culture of the movement spread, from lunch counter sit-ins to the March on Selma. While it’s true that culture is very powerful, it works best in relationship with vision. Another way to say this is that while culture is what gets you to your destination, vision determines the destination. If you articulate a great vision to an organization without the appropriate culture, you’ll never achieve the vision. If your organization has a wonderful culture, but no vision, then you might really enjoy your time together, but you’ll never go

In The March 2017 Issue Of The Coaching & Leadership Journal

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Here is some of what you will find in the March 2017 issue of The Coaching and Leadership Journal: Leadership lessons from March Madness Leadership profile of NCAA champion Dabo Swinney St Patrick’s leadership lessons Motivation killers Be like Tim (Duncan) Dabo Swinney’s methods Huggisms--From The Mind Of Bob Huggins The wisdom of David Shaw, Stanford Football Starting work with Bill Belichick Communication tips Nine of our favorite Dabo Swinney quotes And Much More! Our Journal's subscriber list includes coaches from every college sport as well as numerous athletic administrators on both the collegiate and high school level. This past year the Journal had a renewal rate of 72 percent. "I am so very proud of our Journal. It is especially gratifying to watch our journal grow. When we launched there was so much speculation that subscription-based print journals were dead. But I knew what my years of experience had taught me. Top leaders want to read an