7 Character Development Lessons - Best Stolen Ideas - Part 2

Published: Tue, 10/11/16

 
"You don't handle people, you work with people" -John Wooden, when asked how he was going to handle one of his players
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?'
7 Character Development Lessons:
  1. You’re not developing an athlete, you’re developing a person
  2. It’s not about you being a great coach, it’s about you knowing and developing young men and women
  3. ‘It’s not what you get from playing, it’s who you become because you play’ – Character development is the key in coaching.
  4. Make whoever you are talking to feel like the most important person in the room
  5. Talk TO/WITH your players, not AT them
  6. Ken Stuursma shared a story with me about a conversation with an old-time cowboy, Lou Skeridan – who taught him that kids come to you with their hearts wide open, and you have 2 choices:
    1. You can build into it and make their heart bigger, or
    2. You can crush that and make their hearts smaller
  7. Robert Murphy shared a story about Coach Mike Denney – He taught Robert the importance of character and creating a family environment. He lived it too – he recruited Robert out of high school, and Robert chose to go to his rival – and yet every time he saw him he always came over and shook his hand and said hi.
Love 'em up! Next week we'll share great ideas on practice formats.
To see the other posts in this series go to: winningyouthcoaching.com/blog/
 
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Will Ruth is the JV Coach for the Bellingham Warriors HS Club Lacrosse team and the strength coach for the Western Men’s Club Rowing team. He is an NCSA Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) as well as USA-Weightlifting Level 1 Sports Performance Coach and US-Lacrosse Level 2. In 2015, he became a Rowperfect UK author with his step-by-step manual for strength training for rowing, Rowing Stronger. He also is a Strongman competitor.
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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 95,000 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