The Most Basic Rule of Coaching - .COM

I am probably the only sports fan who goes to a game and watches the coach as much as I watch the players.  As a peak performance trainer, I specifically observe what coaches do or don’t do in their leadership role, and I see too few coaches who know how to stay in the Zone.  Generally, because of this, I can predict the outcome of the game by a coach’s actions during the warm up and first quarter of the game.  Many—most coaches I’m afraid—have little understanding of the most basic rule of leadership:  “If the coach stays in the Zone, the athletes will as well.” It takes an incredible amount of mental work for you to follow this basic rule, especially during a game of mistakes, early season incompetence and losses.  But you’ll have great gains if you do; your team will recover fast from mistakes; and they’ll develop unstoppable confidence with little or no