With more than 50 years of sports coaching experience between them, John Yeager and Jon Cunha joined forces to create a roadmap for coaches to better navigate the three focus areas: self, athlete, team. They added to their expertise by interviewing more than 50 experienced coaches at all levels, from youth to professional.
The Coaching Zone is a step-by-step guide for coaches who want practical, sensible, and far-reaching strategies to go beyond their current expertise. The Coaching Zone social emotional skills are essential in all competitive sports environments. These skills give coaches the wisdom to make the team environment vibrant and healthy. We draw upon ourselves and other coaches’ lived experiences along with covering a wide range of concepts drawn from mindfulness traditions, sports psychology, positive psychology, and positive organizational behavior.
This book tells many stories illustrating both the challenges that coaches face and the solutions that worked – or didn’t work. It also provides 47 exercises that you can use to practice as you learn. You can even assign some of the exercises to your athletes to help them grow similar self-management and relational skills.
Written by coaches for coaches, The Coaching Zone: Next Level Leadership in Sports will help you to:
• Play to your strengths and work around your shortcomings to become a more effective leader.
• Provide clear direction and empower your athletes to make their own decisions.
• Put into action strategies that inspire teamwork and build a healthy team culture.