Best Stolen Ideas - New Series

Published: Fri, 09/23/16

"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts"

- John Wooden

One of the favorite questions I ask every coach I interview is:

'What is the best thing you have ever learned or stolen from another coach?'

This week we launch a new 7-part series that will share 40 responses I've received to that question during the first 91 WYC interviews. We'll break the series up as follows:

1 – Teaching & Coaching Styles

2 – Developing character

3 - Practice format

4 – Mental Toughness & Learning from mistakes

5 – Game Strategies

6 – Culture & Commitment

7 – Parent coaching

4 of the answers to this question actually directly addressed upping your coaching skills by learning from others:

From Coach K – Go learn everything you can, but then make it your own. ‘You’re going to write your own story, make sure you use your own pen.’ – Paul Niggebrugge
Everybody steals most of their ideas, the key is to make it your own and individualize everything based on the needs of the team/person – Corey Bridges
Go to other teams/coaches’ practices! At every level. – Lee Miller
Alan Stein: When watching someone else do a drill that you are going to implement- Ask:
1. Why are you doing it?
2. How are you doing it?
3. What is the end result supposed to be?

Think about the learning curve we are getting by picking the brains of the mentors of 91 of the best youth coaches! Get your notebooks out and we'll dive deep next week!

My Culture Journey

2 weeks in on my journey to turn around the culture of a team I help coach, you can follow along here: The Culture Journey

Excited about new venture!

You may have heard me mention running a paid mastermind of other youth sports entrepreneurs on the WYC podcast before. After 3 years of being in and leading paid masterminds, I keep getting approached on how to start one. So I'm taking this advice and starting an A to Z course on how you can start your own paid mastermind. Might not apply to all of you in this group, but check it out and I welcome any feedback. It is great if any of you are trying to build an online presence. Also - as a thank you for being a WYC follower - I'm offering an additional $100 off the already discounted beta course price in October if you are interested, just email me directly if you're interested at craig@entrepreneurlaunchzone.com before checking out and I'll get you the discounted code. Thanks!

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NEW WYC PODCASTS

WYC 091 – Youth Baseball – Paul Niggebrugge talks Empowering Kids and Be Your Best Academy

Paul Niggebrugge was born in Sao Paolo, Brazil and moved to the United States when he was about 6 years old, not knowing a bit of English. He fell in love with the game of baseball, and went on to coach Caravel Academy Baseball Team for 30 years, won 4 State Championships and Qualified for the State Tournament 27 out of 30 years. He is 4th all-time in Delaware with 400 wins and in 2016 was inducted into the Delaware Baseball Hall of Fame. He is currently a Nationally recognized trusted authority in Batting, Pitching and the Mental Game Coaching – Clinician, Evaluator, Educator and Coach providing instruction or information in over 30 states and 2 countries. And maybe the most impressive stat: Paul has been Married for 36 years and raised 6 happy & healthy children!

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Craig

Craig Haworth is the founder of Winning Youth Coaching, a site dedicated to helping coaches and parents make youth sports an awesome experience for the youth and the parents. He interviews coaches from around the world and posts them on his podcast, which currently has over 90 interviews and has been downloaded over 90,000 times. He writes a weekly note to coaches and parents. He is married to his high-school sweetheart and they share the blessing of 3 children and live in Franklin, TN. You can sign-up for his weekly note here, find him on twitter at @craighaworth1, or visit his website winningyouthcoaching.com.

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men"

- Frederick Douglass