5 Minutes with
Bo Hanson Videos
In this video series, Bo Hanson answers some of the most frequently asked (and interesting!) questions from clients and discusses the most relevant topics for sport coaching and performance. Check back regularly as there’s a new video every couple of weeks! You can also find a form at the bottom of the page to submit your own topic for Bo to talk about.
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5 Minutes with Bo Hanson – Importance of Coach-Athlete Relationships
In this video, Bo explores the importance of the Coach-Athlete Relationship, looking at research that has identified that athletes who are able to form close attachment to their coaches are more likely to feel secure in exploring their role in sport, pushing their boundaries, taking risks to improve performance and being able to confidently give 100% effort.
5 Minutes with Bo Hanson – Having Accountability Within Your Team
Accountability is easy to talk about, but it’s not so straight forward to make sure it’s embedded in the moment-to-moment actions of your athletes. In this video clip, Bo talks about accountability, what it is, and gives some of the many techniques he uses for developing it and keeping it.
5 Minutes with Bo Hanson – Refreshing your DISC Knowledge
In line with the release of our new look DISC reports, we wanted to provide a refresher on the history of DISC and basics of each profile. Bo talks about where it began, why it’s important, and the value in knowing your own profile and preferred behaviors and even identifying that of others.
5 Minutes with Bo Hanson – Compatibility and Clashes Between DISC Profiles
Chemistry and winning combinations are not always a coincidence, and there is potential for conflict in every combination of team members and colleagues.
5 Minutes with Bo Hanson – Leadership and Team
Good leaders will have a strategy for bringing the group together, but sometimes strategy is derailed by assumption. In this video, Bo Hanson Identifies the assumption that creates ‘one of the biggest gaps in effective leadership today’ and gives us a simple way to ensure our team is tight and coordinating their effort.
5 Minutes with Bo Hanson – Pre-Competition Preparation
Can or Can’t Compete Right Now? You can Prepare To Perform! In this 5 minute video (well actually, it’s a little longer this time), Bo continues his theme of training at competition intensity to prepare for the intensity and pressure of competition.
5 Minutes with Bo Hanson – DISC and Motivation
Motivation inspires athletes to play, train and prepare at the peak of their capacity. But, what can coaches do to contribute to that motivation? In this 5 minutes, Bo gives us an insight into what motivates the different behavioral styles
5 Minutes with Bo Hanson – Returning Teams: 4 Priorities for Coaches
Coaches get clear on your priorities! Seasons are set to start again, athletes will or have already resumed training and competition schedules, but life looks
5 Minutes with Bo Hanson – Returning Teams: 4 Things to Focus on as Athletes
What you need to know to fast-track your performance recovery. Bo unpacks an athletes’ priorities, giving an insight into what’s important, why and how he
5 Minutes with Bo Hanson: Learning from Mistakes Post Game
It’s critical that athletes and coaches have different post game and in game strategies for recovering from mistakes, because in game strategies are all about getting back into the game as fast as possible, while post game analysis and plans are all about massively learning from errors to ensure mistakes don’t reoccur in the future. Mistake minimisation is an essential part of elevating performance. If you’re looking to take your performance to the next level, this 5 Minutes with Bo Hanson will give you a simple 3 step strategy for dealing with mistakes post-game. You’ll have a plan which takes you into the future and a mindset that uses mistakes to leverage performance to new levels. Watch now!
5 Minutes with Bo Hanson: Recovering from Mistakes in Game
One of the biggest challenges any athlete or coach faces is recovering from mistakes during a game or race. Every game and every competition is full of mistakes, but performances are defined by the ability to recover from these mistakes. In this 5 Minutes with Bo Hanson video, he gives you a simple 3 step strategy for dealing with mistakes in game. On the surface, the world’s top athletes deliver impeccable performances every time, but when you pull their game apart, what they actually have, is an incredible ability to get their game back on track, that ability is a prerequisites for high-performance. Watch now!
5 Minutes with Bo Hanson: Talking Toughness
Does your program breed toughness in your team? In this concise video, Hanson simplifies the dialogue around toughness in sport by providing a short definition of what we mean when we talk toughness. He describes what tough athletes look like, and the ways in which this attribute can separate and elevate performance. Hanson also presents effective strategies for athletes to utilize when they need to rely on their toughness and how to perform at their best when it matters the most. The video also covers techniques for coaches to facilitate toughness development with the current generation in an era that doesn’t make it easy.
5 Minutes with Bo Hanson: Talking Team Culture
Every team has a culture, some cultures support high-performance while others simply grow around dominant personalities in the team. In this video, Hanson simplifies the dialogue around culture in sport with a succinct definition of the term. He describes what culture looks like, and how to identify it in the sporting context. Together, Hanson and Antoniolli talk about a Coach’s role in guiding team culture. They question whether the team or its individual players’ level of skill and experience has a bearing on team culture. Hanson examines the fundamental components of a successful culture and explains what can happen when a team culture is left to develop on its own.
5 Minutes with Bo Hanson: Where Goals Have Their Place
Where do goals fit in? With the on-going debate by others about the use or purpose of goals (or not), in this 5 minute video Bo Hanson talks about the way goals set standards for behavior and performance. He also talks about the way goals can guide an athlete’s focus, learning from the past, projecting into the future and doing the work required in the now. He brings awareness to the perspective that each time frame offers. Watch as he discusses the place for goals.
5 Minutes with Bo Hanson: The “What’s Best for the Boat” Concept
In this short video Bo Hanson unpacks a simple tool that gives you the ability to independently analyze performance and optimize outputs every time your athletes take the field, court or track, eclipsing event status and subjective opinion. It’s a way of thinking that can be applied to any sport to achieve repeatable performances, regardless of whether that performance is a national championship, Olympic final or just a routine training session. Watch this short video to find out what’s best for you and your team.
5 Minutes with Bo Hanson: The Domino Effect in Sport
There is an entire chapter dedicated to the ‘Big Reason Why’ in the ATHLETE TOUGH™ program developed by Bo Hanson. Being ATHLETE TOUGH is defined by the actions you take when your performance matters the most. Bo Hanson’s unique and proven program is designed to ensure your athletes never give up, never quit on their team and never quit on themselves. It will deliver strategies on how to be mentally resilient and provide step-by-step processes to help your athletes become and stay mentally strong. Find out more here.
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Was there a topic you wanted covered that you couldn’t find in the above videos? Submit the below form to get your topic discussed by Bo Hanson in 5 Minutes with Bo Hanson. We will get back to you when Bo has answered your question, and his response is up on our website. You can also check back regularly as there’s a new video uploaded every couple of weeks!
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