The 4 Cornerstones of Championship Culture - Part 7 of 8- Leadership Development

Published: Mon, 03/20/17

'We all need an unreasonable person in our life that holds us to a standard higher than we believe we can attain.'

The 4 Cornerstones of Championship Culture - WYC is excited to partner with Upward Sports to kick off 2017 with an exciting new way for your to raise your coaching game for you and your coaches!

4th Cornerstone - Developing Leaders

This week we have the privilege of learning from Jim Harshaw Jr.

Jim is a TedX speaker, a consultant, and a former Division I All American wrestler. He also hosts a podcast called Success through Failure.

Success through Failure

Jim is passionate about developing leaders who embrace failure as a necessary part of success. The failure along the way is only because we set our goals high. The more successful the person, the more failures they have in their past. You don’t see the grind and struggles and times they wanted to quit after they succeed, but it’s there. ‘Failure is an option. In fact, it’s quite likely.’ We should set audaciously high goals. Then reverse engineer the process it will take to get there. And then forget about the goal. All you can control is your actions. Set action goals.

Be an action taker and don't let your fear of not reaching a lofty goal prevent you from shooting for it: ‘There are 2 pains in life: the pain of discipline, and the pain of regret’

Be sure to join us next week as we wrap up our series on championship culture by taking a look at an action plan on how to put this in place for your teams.

We're thankful for our partnership with Upward Sports - see all the great stuff they are up to at upward.org. If you are not familiar with them:

Established in 1995, Upward Sports is the world’s largest Christian youth sports provider. Approximately 100,000 leaders and coaches deliver Upward Sports programming to half a million young athletes around the country.
Upward Sports promotes the discovery of Jesus through sports, by providing a fun, encouraging environment in which young athletes can learn technical skills and a love of the game. We use sports like basketball, volleyball, soccer and flag football to help young athletes develop mentally, athletically, spiritually, and socially. We are about the whole athlete—that’s our 360 Progression.

March Madness

Thanks to everyone who signed up for the WYC March Madness bracket challenge. Hopefully your bracket is doing better than mine!

WYC will be making a donation to the V Foundation to represent those who joined in. Thank you!

My Culture Journey

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

WYC 111 – Championship Culture Part 7 – Jim Harshaw Jr talks Wrestling & Developing Leaders Who Aren’t Afraid to Fail

Jim is a TedX speaker, a consultant, and a former Division I All American wrestler. He also hosts a podcast called Success through Failure.

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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 110 interviews and has been downloaded over 140,000 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