As it does for players focused on achieving their goals for the next season, the off-season begins a journey for the coach as well. As we have been talking about on the podcast, it’s a time to review, reflect, and determine where your team goes next. It’s also a time for you to determine how you will grow and develop as an individual in the profession.
Recently, I shared an episode from our archives from Ohio HS Hall of Fame Coach Thom McDaniels. He talked about how a coach should major and minor in something each off-season. Much like working on a degree, your off-season professional development should have a focus and be targeted on key areas that can help you become a better coach in both the long term and short term.
I would suggest you look at this in terms of how you develop your technical/tactical skills relating directly to what happens on the field, as well as how you develop skills important for the player-coach relationship, building your position, unit or team culture, and your skills related to organization and management of your position, unit or team.
I’ve put together three resources that will be available soon that give you an operating system for your work as a coach whether you are currently a head coach, coordinator, or position coach. More about those soon.
Today, I want to get you started thinking about your off-season journey by sharing an excerpt from Bill Walsh’s book Finding the Winning Edge. Coach Walsh was one of the best ever because he knew how to look at everything from how all aspects of coaching fit into the big picture down to the finest details of what it takes to win from the individual position, units, and team.
Though this is over 30 years old, it reads like it was written recently. The knowledge Coach Walsh shared is timeless and can help you in your development now as much as it did the many coaches from his coaching tree who went on to have outstanding careers as head coaches.
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