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The Coaches Toolbox is a site designed to provide coaches of all sports tools to help them develop or improve their program. The resources provided here are not sport specific and do not include X and 0's , skill instruction or strategies. We have gathered, and will continue to add, tools that we feel can assist you in building your program. While you are fully capable of researching and finding resources on your own, we hope to streamline that process and save you precious time by posting useful tools here.

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Coaches must be extremely knowledgeable in the basic X and O's of their sport. They must be skilled at teaching individual fundamentals required in their sport. They are often in charge of the strength and conditioning of their athletes.

They scout and prepare game plans that they hope will bring success to all of the stakeholders on their teams. They are expected to teach leadership and teamwork to young men and women and help develop characteristics that will make them successful in life.

Coaches are not only asked to lead their teams, but at the high school level they are expected to provide guidance to the coaches in their feeder programs. These are just a few of the tasks that a head coach is charged with completing. In addition, many coaches have a full teaching schedule that creates additional daily challenges.

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Thinking Through Your Personal Brand

How do you cultivate a dynamic personal brand?  Many coaches think that focusing  on personal branding is unnecessary.  They shy away from engaging in personal branding--viewing it as self-promotion.  However, the reality is that we all have personal brands, whether we focus on … View this post

Putting the Person Before the Athlete

  As a leadership educator your main task is to create a psychologically safe environment in which your players want to learn how to become team leaders.  This is not a trivial distinction. A learning climate characterized by trust and openness is critical to encourage … View this post

The World is not Fair and What Got You to Good Won’t Get You to Great

    Teamwork Intelligence Conversational Exercise The following questions are intended for leadership conversation involving coaches and players. The deeper your conversation goes the closer and clearer you get to understanding the heart and mind of each team … View this post

Everything They Don’t Tell You About Being A Coach

This video is courtesy of Glazier Academies In the 2-minute video, Frank DeLano delivers a powerful message taken from his full presentation "Everything They Don't Tell You About Being a Coach" from Glazier's Head Coach Academy. Being put in the middle of difficult … View this post


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