The Coaching Zone

The Coaching Zone is for coaches who are life-long learners, who want to bring out the best in themselves, their athletes, & their teams.

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#CoachingZone Blog Post!
Coaches: Build Vulnerability Trust in Yourself and Your Athletes
A major factor that influences how well coaches and athletes empower each other is trust.....link to full blog below
https://t.co/EqepDtfQ7P

[Massachusetts Youth Lacrosse @MassYouthLax]

Coaches: A FREE webinar with @PLLCannons Head Coach @CoachQuirk and @CoachingZone4U Dr John Yeager on Wed, Feb 8 from 730-830pm. Register here- https://t.co/NT4fhUK0x5

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...With empathy, trust, & mattering as foundations, coaches can further develop and reinforce their playbook of communication skills to provide athletes with a sense of connection, challenge, and control.
Learn more about in-person and virtual trainings -- https://t.co/YNo0UMCSaS

[The Coaching Zone @CoachingZone4U]

The MASTER CLASS continued this week with @ECGulls! Dr. John Yeager conducted part 2 of The Coaching Zone Master Class. Endicott College coaches examined how to be more effective by knowing when to provide direction and when to empower athletes to make decisions.
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FREE webinar for Coaches and Athletic Directors!
Details & registration: https://t.co/zBmGnH4ExR

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....and helping their athletes grow self-awareness of their own stories. Do your athletes feel connected to you? Are you curious about them as human beings, not just members of the team? Do they feel that they matter?
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#TuesdaysTip #5 for Getting into The Coaching Zone
CULTIVATE CONNECTIONS – Empathy, Mattering, and Trust – Coaches learn the skills that help them connect with their athletes by expressing empathy, establishing trust, letting their athletes know that they matter...(thread)

[Peak Goalie @peakgoalie]

Goalies dictate the warm up to get into the mental and physical zone to compete. Subscribe to peakgoalietv YouTube to see a full proper goalie warm up. Lot’s of goalie content and tons more to come. #peakgoalie #brickwall
#lacrosse #lacrossegoalie #warmup

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Wishing and Willing: Shaping Hope in Sports
Read the blog here- https://t.co/DwYEoMs7FT

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...In his book, Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action, Simon Sinek argues that understanding the deeper why behind what we do can bring us to work inspired and ready to contribute energetically to something greater than ourselves.
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[The Coaching Zone @CoachingZone4U]

#CoachingZoneBookInsight
Chapter 2: THE PASSIONATE AND PURPOSEFUL COACH
Part of developing self-awareness is understanding two important sources of motivation that affect the way coaches pursue goals: passion and purpose. Passionate coaches draw on a deeply stirring fervor...

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...When we are passionate about what we do, our excitement is contagious, energizing the athletes we coach. When we connect our passion with our purpose, we model having a deeper meaning for what we do, generating hope and determination....

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Happy Holidays from The Coaching Zone!
If your team, club, high school or college athletic department is interested in bettering coaches in 2022, contact us to learn about virtual and in-person Master Classes. More info and contact link- https://t.co/KqQooFGwok

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...Having a deliberate strategy to fuel our passion and clarify our purpose helps us build coaching lives that are vastly rewarding.
Learn more -- https://t.co/YNo0UMCSaS

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Tips for getting into The Coaching Zone:
Tip #4 - Live your Passion and Purpose
Part of developing self-awareness is understanding two important sources of motivation that affect the way coaches pursue goals: passion and purpose....

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...Passionate coaches draw on a deeply stirring fervor for the energy to invest in the sport they value. Purpose-driven coaches have a long-term focus on doing something that is larger than themselves....

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"Showing Athletes They Matter"
Weekly blog from The Coaching Zone
Effective coaches strive to build accountability in their athletes, and one way to support that growth is by showing them that they matter....
Read the full blog here- https://t.co/bgMO6I7mju

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Check out this week's blog- "Parents as Values Stakeholders in Sports"
When parents of young athletes understand and act on the team’s core values, there is less distraction and the athlete’s experience is better. FULL BLOG HERE...
https://t.co/Giz2iWXCO0

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...When we intentionally think about our shortcomings, it allows us to tell the truth on ourselves, and to embrace our own fallibility when making decisions. We can learn to compensate for our limitations.
#TuesdaysTips #CoachingZone #Coaching #CoachingTips

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#TuesdaysTips
Coaching Zone Tip #3 - Leverage Strengths and Manage Blind Spots
When coaches know and practice their strengths, they can experience true enjoyment and satisfaction, & they increase performance in their athletes and teams, creating success-conducive environments...