This document provides guidance for positive coaching. It emphasizes understanding your purpose as a coach which is to develop athletes to their full potential while teaching life lessons beyond just sports. A coach's role goes beyond just knowing the game to include being a motivator, teacher, role model, and emotional manager. Coaches must have skills like unconditional love, positive discipline, consistency, and the ability to praise and criticize calmly. They should lead through positive leadership by respecting players and parents, encouraging all abilities, and avoiding punishment or putting players down. Coaches must also have passion for sports and interactions, teach the value of competition, sportsmanship and handle winning in a healthy way.

1. POSITIVE COACHING

2. Finding ways NOT to
coach is pretty easy...

3. Text
Your challenge as a coach is to
change the culture of athletics...

4. DEVELOPING A PURPOSE
WORKING WITH YOUTH
UNDERSTANDING (AND ACCEPTING) THE ROLE OF A
COACH...YOUR SKILL SET
POSITIVE LEADERSHIP
PASSION,TOUGHNESS, WINNING,COMPETING,
AND SPORTSMANSHIP
ORGANIZING THE EXTRAS...
let’s get rolling...

5. • Understanding your purpose is the foundation to
success/failure
• It is a mindset of success and confidence
• Unfortunately people think agenda-driven is
synonymous with purpose-driven
Becoming
Purpose-Driven

6. Develop athletes to their
full potential
Equity and Integrity
Positive and enthusiastic
atmosphere
Teach beyond sport...life
Model appropriate
behaviors
Teach success without a
scoreboard
What is YOUR purpose
as a coach?

7. Recreational aspects of sports are lost
Early specialization is the norm
Emphasis is on individual success not team/others success
Competition and success are mis-defined or left to develop without
cultivation
Participation in youth sports is on the decline
Societal Crud has bled in to our youths worlds
We are basing athletics with a top-down mentality, not a bottom-up
mentality
Understanding youth and the
culture of athletics...

8. Just knowing the game is not enough for today’s athlete
Coaches must understand the tremendous impact they are making
Role of a Coach
Motivator
Teacher
Role Model
Seed Planter
Emotional Manager
“Parent”
Promoter
Establish Identities
Coaching Skill Set
Unconditional Love
Positive Discipline
Consistency
Organization
Vocal Praise-Calm Criticizer
Passion for game/kids
Unselfishness
Approachable demeanor
You are more than
just a coach of
football...

9. POSITIVE LEADERSHIP

10. know your players beyond football
know your parents
give respect and challenge both physically and
verbally
know the game
be an encourager
dress/demeanor
develop “your” terms
teach all abilities

11. no sarcasm or demeaning talk
motivate up not down
consistent rules/boundaries
avoid punishment mentality
be resilient and recover from
adversity
have an appropriate sense of
humor
if you get upset...get upset at the
situation not a player

12. PASSION: Love for sports, interactions, and exercise, take challenges, coach
leadership, instill value for the gifts they have
TOUGHNESS: Needs to be healthy, controlled aggression, knowledge and
confidence, honor different responses...stress is your barometer
WINNING: Left untreated it is a time bomb, value of others succeeding
COMPETITION: Innate when kids interact, internal and external...teach
poise, relax, focus, eliminating distractions around them
SPORTSMANSHIP: Develop pattern of positives, model always, teach
respect for everyone involved, instill respect for all aspects of the game, share examples

13. PARENTS
proactive... newsletter, meetings, 1 on 1’s
boundaries... communication, presence, support
teach them sportsmanship, pre, during, and post-game conduct
OFF-SEASON
preconditioning
nutrition and sleep
school
integrity
Don’t forget the extras...

14. Thank You for your
time...
Anything I can do for
you, please contact
me!
STEP UP COACH INC.
kurt@coachstepup.com
(989) 488-0741