Coaching Culture

Calling Up is NOW available on E-Book! Check it out at Amazon (https://amzn.to/2HVPBkO) or from your E-Book Provider. Join JP, Nate, and a small group of coaches at the 2019 Thrive on Challenge Leadership Retreat: bit.ly/30hXdH1 Schedule a Mentorship Call with JP: calendly.com/thriveonchallenge/initialcall With Nate: forms.gle/5f8VmQ5LM8uN1qJd9 Learn More About Mentorship: thriveonchallenge.com/mentorship/ _________________________ As coaches, we have to know and understand which struggles really matter. Get the weekly podcast coaching notes by going to thriveonchallenge.com and subscribing to the weekly newsletter! Struggle is age appropriate. Struggle builds our resiliency tank. - If you continue to bail your athlete or children out, they will lose the ability to solve problems their own as they get older. There has to be a balance between bailing them out and making them step up to the plate. Allowing Athletes to Struggle - We continue to delay the consequence of bad habits. 
 - Create environments where kids learn implicitly. 
 - We’ve robbed kids of the ability to just figure things out! 
 - Teaching kids how to talk and walk we don’t put them through “classes”. 
 - They aren’t uncoachable, they just don’t know how to learn. Advice for College Coaches - Look for it in your recruits. 
 - You need to know your standards and you better not waver. 
 - Let people experience the consequence quickly. 
 - A coaching staff who was 100% in alignment and ready to back you. We'd love to hear from you! Twitter: @jpnerbun @CoachNSanderson eslingerheath@gmail.com jpnerbun@thriveonchallenge.com Nate_S@BreakthroughBasketball.com https://heatheslinger.com/ https://abetterwayathletics.com/ https://gomocs.com/news/2018/7/19/wrestling-coach-heath-eslinger-resigns.aspx?path=wr

Calling Up is NOW available on E-Book! Check it out at Amazon (https://amzn.to/2HVPBkO) or from your E-Book Provider. Join JP, Nate, and a small group of coaches at the 2019 Thrive on Challenge Leadership Retreat: bit.ly/30hXdH1 Schedule a Mentorship Call with JP: calendly.com/thriveonchallenge/initialcall With Nate: forms.gle/5f8VmQ5LM8uN1qJd9 Learn More About Mentorship: thriveonchallenge.com/mentorship/ _________________________ How do you create moments that are big and small, moments that aren’t just at the beginning or the end of the season and really elevates a player's experience on your team? Get the weekly podcast coaching notes by going to thriveonchallenge.com and subscribing to the weekly newsletter! Shared vulnerability can help your athletes connect, whether it be through a tough workout or sharing different aspects of their life with their teammates. Power of Moments takeaways: - Humor is a powerful way to connect people Powerful moments can sneak up on you. - Athletes may remind you of powerful small moments that impacted them. - Hearing from them about small powerful moments will make you more aware of them the next time they happen How do you recognize that these smaller moments can have powerful impacts on your athletes? What are some things you can do as a coach to create these small powerful moments? - Create an environment where players can connect - Some of these moments happen organically, but when they do, capture the recipes for these moments in order to create more later on Negative experiences can stick out as much as those positive moments. - Your brain will latch onto your most intense experiences. - It will not filter out a bad versus good experience We'd love to hear from you! Twitter: @jpnerbun @CoachNSanderson jpnerbun@thriveonchallenge.com Nate_S@BreakthroughBasketball.com

Use Coupon Code: COACHINGCULTURE and save $10 off your order of Calling Up available exclusively here. Join JP, Nate, and a small group of coaches at the 2019 Thrive on Challenge Leadership Retreat: bit.ly/30hXdH1 Schedule a Mentorship Call with JP: calendly.com/thriveonchallenge/initialcall With Nate: forms.gle/5f8VmQ5LM8uN1qJd9 Learn More About Mentorship: thriveonchallenge.com/mentorship/ _________________________ “Our lives are measured in moments, and defining moments are the ones that endure in our memories.” Get the weekly podcast coaching notes by going to thriveonchallenge.com and subscribing to the weekly newsletter! Building powerful moments: Category 1: Elevation - This moment becomes memorable because its different from other moments. It rises above other moments. Category 2: Insight - It’s a turning point in how we see ourselves or how we see the world. It could be a significant paradigm shift. Category 3: Moments of Pride, Recognition, Achievement Category 4: Moments of Connection Get your players to drive the first day experience. As coaches, we have to develop empathy in our athlete. We have to help them develop that skill. 3 questions you can ask your returning players - What was your first day like? What did you feel, what were you thinking? - What do you want the first day experience to be like for the new players coming in? - What can you and your teammates do to create that positive experience? No only should be make an athletes entrance into our program special, but we should equally make important their departure. We'd love to hear from you! Twitter: @jpnerbun @CoachNSanderson jpnerbun@thriveonchallenge.com Nate_S@BreakthroughBasketball.com

Join JP, Nate, and a small group of coaches at the 2019 Thrive on Challenge Leadership Retreat: bit.ly/30hXdH1 Schedule a Mentorship Call with JP: calendly.com/thriveonchallenge/initialcall With Nate: forms.gle/5f8VmQ5LM8uN1qJd9 Learn More About Mentorship: thriveonchallenge.com/mentorship/ _________________________ What is the right strategy for our team culture? Get the weekly podcast coaching notes by going to thriveonchallenge.com and subscribing to the weekly newsletter! What are some questions that you use with coaches that help them solidify their identity and the identity of their program? - How do YOU want your teams to play in a perfect world? - What would that look like and describe it to me - What do I enjoy watching and coaching? - Encourage them to think less about the players and think more about how they want to play - Be more proactive than reactive The style of play can actually help us build that player-led culture. - Encourage a more decision-based offense approach than strict play guidelines. - When athletes make decisions instead of just complying, they gain sport knowledge and understand the game better - Players have to understand the game in order for it to be their game What is the hardest part of this process? - Deleting things that don’t fit your program framework and mindset - The hardest part is being consistent and sticking to that process even if it means losing in the short-term We'd love to hear from you! Twitter: @jpnerbun @CoachNSanderson @radiusathletics jpnerbun@thriveonchallenge.com Nate_S@BreakthroughBasketball.com randy@radiusathletics.com radiusathletics.com

Join JP, Nate, and a small group of coaches at the 2019 Thrive on Challenge Leadership Retreat: https://bit.ly/30hXdH1 Schedule a Mentorship Call with JP: https://calendly.com/thriveonchallenge/initialcall With Nate: https://forms.gle/5f8VmQ5LM8uN1qJd9 Learn More About Mentorship: https://thriveonchallenge.com/mentorship/ _________________________ What would make you a better coach that has nothing to do with the practical or technical of your sport? Get the weekly podcast coaching notes by going to thriveonchallenge.com and subscribing to the weekly newsletter! How do you become a better coach? - There has to be reflection on where you want to grow as a coach. - Choose one area you’d like to improve in before the next season - Acquire AND APPLY knowledge to your program There is great growth when you’re doing it together. How do I attack my off-season development? - Target one thing in your culture or program that you want to improve - Find ways to nurture and maintain the relationships with your athletes We'd love to hear from you! Twitter: @jpnerbun @CoachNSanderson jpnerbun@thriveonchallenge.com Nate_S@BreakthroughBasketball.com

Schedule a Mentorship Call with JP: https://calendly.com/thriveonchallenge/initialcall With Nate: https://forms.gle/5f8VmQ5LM8uN1qJd9 _________ It’s so easy to worry about you wins and losses record, but the MOST important thing to ask yourself as a coach is, “How am I developing these players? Are they leaving my program better than when they came in?” Get the weekly podcast coaching notes by going to thriveonchallenge.com and subscribing to the weekly newsletter! Biggest challenge to overcome: - How am I going to measure success if not by the scoreboard? What were some of the resistances you may face when you transition from being a transactional leader to a transformational leader? - Mindset shift for not only yourself, but for your coaching staff and athletes as well - Sometimes athletes want a transactional coach - Parents may criticize the coach because the coach has a more athlete-centered approach Transformational coaching is being willing to sacrifice short term gain such as positive stats for long term growth. Transformational coaching doesn’t mean losing intensity, it just means doing away with the unnecessary yelling and screaming. We'd love to hear from you! Twitter: @jpnerbun @CoachNSanderson @coachsowden jpnerbun@thriveonchallenge.com Nate_S@BreakthroughBasketball.com ssowden@briercrest.ca

In this episode of #CoachingCulture, Nate and I talk about getting the most out of your coaching staff. Get the weekly podcast coaching notes by going to thriveonchallenge.com and subscribing to the weekly newsletter! The number one factor that can improve the value that your staff bring to the program is being clear about how Head Coaches want their assistants to communicate with them. If you want your kids to hold each other accountable, you have to hold each other accountable as a staff as well. Empower your staff and hand over some of your responsibilities. We'd love to hear from you! Twitter: @jpnerbun @CoachNSanderson jpnerbun@thriveonchallenge.com Nate_S@BreakthroughBasketball.com

It was the "season dreams are made of" is how one reporter described this year for Coach Boos and the Sun Prairie Cardinals. Nate and JP discuss with Coach Boos how he rebuilt his culture and the value of J.P.'s mentorship program and culture coaching through the process. Interested in Mentorship and Culture Coaching? Fill Out this Form: https://forms.gle/mrLEAjKLUcjQgi4o8 Or just schedule a call here: https://calendly.com/thriveonchallenge Get the weekly podcast coaching notes by going to thriveonchallenge.com and subscribing to the weekly newsletter! How would coaches know that there are some thing seriously wrong with their culture? - Check their reactions during a loss - Check their responses to tough situations - Connect with kids and check in on them How do you connect better with your players? - More 1 on 1 individual meetings - Let your kids know that you have an open door policy Strategies for Developing Emotional Intelligence 1. Starts with the coach managing their emotions. 
 2. Connecting with them and asking questions to help them become aware of their emotions. 
 3. Be ready to hold your coaches accountable Interested in Mentorship and Culture Coaching? Fill Out this Form: https://forms.gle/mrLEAjKLUcjQgi4o8 Or just schedule a call here: https://calendly.com/thriveonchallenge We'd love to hear from you! Twitter: @jpnerbun @CoachNSanderson jpnerbun@thriveonchallenge.com Nate_S@BreakthroughBasketball.com

In our latest #CoachingCulture podcast, Nate and I are sharing practical tools on how we as coaches can help teach our players how to recover from their mistakes. Get the weekly podcast coaching notes by going to thriveonchallenge.com and subscribing to the weekly newsletter! Failable recovery is the key to sustainable excellence. We will rise and fall to the level of our training. Steps to implementing that system: 1. Help them become self-aware of their own self-talk 2. Ritual that symbolizes the break from what happened to what will happen 3. Athlete needs to focus on what’s important NOW When you acknowledge your mistakes, you accept your reality and can move past it. We'd love to hear from you! Twitter: @jpnerbun @CoachNSanderson jpnerbun@thriveonchallenge.com Nate_S@BreakthroughBasketball.com

In our latest #CoachingCulture episode, Nate and I share how to build your team’s mistake response. Get the weekly podcast coaching notes by going to thriveonchallenge.com and subscribing to the weekly newsletter! Nate shares how one player on his team went from letting nerves get to her to helping the team win the state championship with her at the free throw line. How do you get your athletes to become self-aware of their responses to their mistakes? - Ask them to write down how you think teammates, coaches, parents, and people in the stands will respond to the mistakes you make in a game. - Ask them to write about which category’s thoughts would affect them the most. - Discuss how as a team, you can help each player through their mistakes. When someone makes a mistake, it is a race to go to them and reinforce that you still trust them and believe in them as a teammate. Cut out saying, “my bad” to help stop the negative self-talk. We'd love to hear from you! Twitter: @jpnerbun @CoachNSanderson jpnerbun@thriveonchallenge.com Nate_S@BreakthroughBasketball.com