The Power of Double-Goal Coaching: Developing Winners in Sports and Life

by Jim Thompson

The playing field is the ideal place to teach life lessons. Youth and high school sports offer an endless procession of teachable moments, but these are too often sacrificed in the headlong pursuit of winning at all costs. The Power of Double-Goal Coaching helps coaches build winners on and, more importantly, off the field. Whether coaching pee-wees or varsity, Double-Goal Coaches prepare their teams to win on the scoreboard but know the second goal of sports using competition to teach life lessons is the source of lasting impact for coaches, parents, and athletes alike. In this book, Positive Coaching Alliance founder Jim Thompson shows you how Create a coaching legacy that will live on through the lives of your players; Improve your athletes' performance by focusing on effort rather than results; Elevate your athletes' emotional state so they can perform at their peak level and have more fun; Teach athletes to compete while honoring the game; Deal with common coaching challenges, such as managing parents, planning effective practices, allocating playing time, coaching your own child, handling a losing season, and deploying assistant coaches; Become part of a national movement to transform youth sports so sports can transform youth.

Genres: Sports

70 pages, Perfect Paperback

First published March 12, 2010

About the author

Writer on sports and athletics.

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Reviews

[Tara · Rating 4 out of 5]

Short, quick read. I liked the concept of "flushing" - moving past mistakes by acknowledging them and "flushing" them away. Lots of useful tips and examples in such a small book.

[N · Rating 4 out of 5]

Coaching your child’s first rec team or an elite squad, this book will remind you of why you want to coach and give your practical tools to be the kind of coach that inspires love for the sport and excellence in performance. This 70 page booklet would be perfect for parents to share with coaches who would benefit from learning positive coaching techniques.

[Karen Elliott · Rating 5 out of 5]

Every coach needs to read this book and keep it on hand as a refresher.
I even used the same thinking in my classroom.

[Nate · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you are a coach of youth sports or thinking about getting involved, this is a great book to read. Jim Thompson and PCA have developed a coaching mindset that gets to the heart of what youth sports, in particular, should be all about. At only 70 pages, it is a quick read, but still filled with real world examples and tools that you can implement immediately to improve the athletic experience of your players, parents, and yourself!

[Kathleen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was summer reading for the faculty at my school. Of all the summer reading I've done as faculty, I think this was the most useful book I've read yet. I'm a relatively new coach, so it's possible that this might be old hat for some, but a lot of the strategies addressed here were things that I could see finding very useful in my own practice. I'm really excited to implement them this fall!

[Alexander · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book to help you out as a coach, especially with kids in youth sports leagues.

[Michael Schwendinger · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good short read.