Thoughts & tweets of the week

DrRonBradley Certainly leadership involves some specific skills, but ultimately leadership is more about BEING than about DOING." (H. Blackaby)
Sports_Greats Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't. - Jerry Rice  
coachdeforest Navy SEALS - "The only EASY day was YESTERDAY"

CoachKeathley The best way early on to determine a players character is to place responsibilty on them---see how they respond!

The price of success is dedication, deprivation, lots of sustained effort and plenty of doubt and loneliness mixed in to test your resolve

The expression & ultimate evidence of a person's level of commitment is seen in a constant striving to become exceptional in performance

TomCrean "Winning is not complicated, people complicate it." Dick Vermiel  


ZigZiglarQuotes "Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you derive from what you do." - Michael Korda

The gap between vision and current reality is also a source of energy.If there were no gap, there would be no need for any action to move towards the vision. We call this gap creative tension. Peter Senge

Two sources of energy motivate organizations: fear and aspiration. Fear, the energy source behind negative visions, can produce extraordinary changes in short periods, but aspiration endures as a source of learning and growth

Its getting so everyone wants to harvest, but nobody wants to plow 

.Positive Attitude Quotes

Florence Scovel Shinn:
We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
T. S. Eliot:
We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.
Eleanor Roosevelt:
We must want for others, not ourselves alone.
Abraham Lincoln:
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
Earl Nightingale:
We tend to live up to our expectations.
Albert Einstein:
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Japanese proverb:
We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.
Nick Saban:
What happened yesterday is history. What happens tomorrow is a mystery. What we do today makes a difference - the precious present moment.
Thaddeus Golas:
What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Dale Brown Art of Coaching

Another great blog by Coach Dale Brown.  I have included the link below
http://coachdalebrown.blogspot.com/2010/09/art-of-coaching.html

THE ART OF COACHING

"You cannot teach a person anything; you can only help him find it within himself."

– Galileo Galilei

Effective Coaching

By: Vadim Kotelnikov

Coaching Defined

Coaching is the art and practice of inspiring, energizing, and facilitating the performance, learning and development of  the player. (Myles Downey)7

Each word in this definition is a key word:

• art – though there is science to coaching, coaching is an art in the sense that "when practiced with excellence, there is no attention on the technique: the coach is fully engaged with the player and the process of coaching becomes a dance between two people, conversationally moving in complete harmony and partnership. At this point the intelligence,intuition and imagination of the coach become a valuable contribution - rather than being interference for the player."⁷

• inspiring – coaching is about helping the player to unlock his or her true potential through raising awareness, inspiring new ideas and encouraging creativity

• energizing – coaching is about energizing the player through effective communication, soliciting suggestions, and building a can-do attitude

• facilitating – implies that the player has the capacity to have an insight or creative idea and to think something through for himself

• performance – anything a coach says or does should be driven by the intention to improve performance, i.e. to achieve greater effectiveness or efficiency of the player

• learning – refers to a broader domain, how to approach a task or master a new technology; looking beyond immediate objectives, the future performance of the organization depends on learning

• development – refers to personal growth and greater self-awareness.⁷

The Goal of Coaching

The goal of coaching is to guide vision, urge excellence, and empower the one being coached – the player – through establishing a firmer connection with his or her inner authority.

What Motivates People

I stole this post from thelabb.blogspot.com

He has some great stuff.  This video is about 11 minutes long and is well worth the time to watch!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

10 thoughts on Leadership--Dale Brown

Notes From Dale Brown’s Readings On Leadership
1. No leader is exempt from criticism, and his humility will nowhere be seen more clearly than in the
manner in which he accepts and reacts to it.
2. Anyone who steps into the arena of leadership must be prepared to pay a price. True leadership
exacts a heavy toll on the whole person and the more effective the leadership, the higher the price! The
leader must soon face the fact that he will be the target of critical darts. Unpleasant though it may
sound, you haven’t really led until you have become familiar with the stinging barbs of the critic. Good
leaders must have the thick skin.
3. Every leader must develop the ability to measure the value or worth of criticism. He has to
determine the source and the motive, and he has to listen with discernment. Sometimes the best
course of action is to respond to criticism and learn from it. Other times, he must be completely
ignored.
4. It is impossible to lead anyone without facing opposition.
5. It is essential to face opposition in prayer.
6. Few people can live in the lap of luxury and maintain their spiritual, emotional, and moral
equilibrium. Sudden elevation often disturbs balance, which leads to pride and a sense of selfsufficiency
and then, a fall. It’s ironic, but more of us can hang tough through a demotion than through
a promotion.
7. The man who is impatient with weakness will be defective in his leadership. The evidence of our
strength lies not in streaking ahead but in a willingness to adapt our stride to the slower pace of our
weaker brethren, while not forfeiting our lead. If we run too far ahead, we lose our power to influence.
8. No matter how strong a leader you are, you will experience times when the cutting remarks really
hurt.
9. You must be determined to apply massive common sense in solving complex problems.
10. You must be willing to accept the simple fact that you have flaws and will need to work every day
to become a better leader than you were yesterday.

Preseason Checklist

This is something that I found from the People at Point Guard College.  I changed some things in it and tailored it to our team.

PRESEASON CHECK LIST:

HAVE YOU?????

         GOTTEN IN SHAPE

 

      BEEN A LEADER/ A GREAT TEAMMATE

 

IDENTIFIED 2-3 AREAS OF WEAKNESS TO WORK ON?

GROWN IN MENTAL TOUGHNESS

PREPARED YOURSELF FOR THE SEASON

 

 

This is "players time" of the year; the best will come together as one; push themselves; not need a coach everyday; be accountable for success!

  

A culture of greatness creates an expectation that everyone in the organization (team) be committed to excellence. “ Jon Gordon

Eric Musselman Thoughts

Work for super stars in the business
Chuck Daly helped him get the job in Golden State
Jerry West helped him get the job in Sacramento
Work for multiple people
Coach Daly “You better know where your next job is coming
from”
Pre game warm ups is a great audition for assistant coach’s
Other coaches, front office people & TV broadcasters are
watching
It’s your players when you win…

Philosophy when coaching in the CBA was to get every player he
could from great college coaches (Indiana – Bobby Knight)
Those players provide
-Practice habits
-Execution
-Professionalism
Get an identity
Good coaches have an identity
Bad coaches have no identity

Create a balance sheet after training camp
How much time are you spending on offense & defense
After training camp it should be close to equal
Make sure you cover special situations
Jump balls
Who’s defending the in- bounder late game situation
Who’s taking the ball out, full court / half court end of game