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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: Competing in Sport
To excel in high-performance sport, athletes and coaches are inexhaustible in their search for an edge. In this short video, Bo Hanson provides a checklist of how athletes can compete before they even reach the start line or make the opening move in a match. Successful athletes routinely work on certain aspects of their life to enhance their performance. Watch now to find out what 10 items your athletes could be working on in addition to the prescribed program to ensure they’re in front of the competition.
5 Minutes with Bo Hanson: Student-Athlete Leadership Tip
Effective leadership impacts your win-loss record. Fact! It’s also true that a leadership role will stretch an athlete’s ability to connect, drive standards, rally teammates and excel at their own game. In this 5 minutes with Bo Hanson, he talks tips, strategies and shortcuts, giving athletes tools to manage a leadership role with their own game.
5 Minutes with Bo Hanson: The Contribution A Coach Can Make
Be inspired by the contribution a few well-timed words from a Coach can make. In this short video Bo Hanson tells his story about the way a Coach kept his dream alive. After not winning a single schoolboy event he goes on to represent Australia at the Olympics age 18.
5 Minutes with Bo Hanson: Fixed vs Growth Mindset
Learn why your team’s skill set is only a starting point by understanding the difference between a fixed and a growth mindset. In this short video Bo explains how a fixed mindset drives the expectation that an athlete can only operate within a predetermined range of abilities, while a growth mindset sees the potential for skill development on a mental and physical level.
5 Minutes with Bo Hanson: Compounding Your Practices
In this five minute video we hear about techniques teams can use to take themselves to new levels of learning and results (instead of returning to the same principles or starting point every session). Bo calls this ‘Compounding Practice’. Compounding practice is something that all successful teams and athletes do. They begin with the basics and build their craft, layer upon layer, until they become a specialist in the skills essential to their sport.
5 Minutes with Bo Hanson: Energizing your team like a Rockstar
Sometimes the easiest way to understand a thing it is to understand an example. So in this case, I’ll use our business as the example.
At Athlete Assessments one of our values is growth. It’s a human need. Everyone needs to feel they are growing, developing, improving and for us that’s certainly the case. But how do we go about achieving growth?
5 Minutes with Bo Hanson: Welcome to the Growth Season
Our ‘Big Reason Why’ is a topic we talk about in our ATHLETE TOUGH™ program and I was looking at it today with a team, because it’s soon to be Fall in America and they’re faced with the proposition of going home and either looking at this period of time as a vacation or a break.
5 Minutes with Bo Hanson: Getting gains from lesson learnt – Reframing
Welcome to another edition of 5 minutes with Bo Hanson, today I thought it might be useful, given that we’re coming towards the end of the year, to take a moment and reflect on some of the experiences we’ve had throughout season 2017.
5 Minutes with Bo Hanson: Momentary Vs Sustained Adaptations
In this 5 Minute with Bo Hanson, Bo talks about recognizing the difference between a Momentary Adaptation and a Sustained Adaptation and how the two effect an athletes’ ability to perform at their best.
Athlete Transition: 5 Minutes with Bo Hanson
Athlete Transition is a topic that has recently gained a lot of momentum as a critical issue in sport. For elite athletes, the large majority of their effort and energy is focused on their training and competition. Throughout their careers, athletes make personal, professional and financial sacrifices so they can pursue their dreams. Often, things outside of sport are perceived as a luxury they simply cannot indulge, so it stands to reason that when sport is no longer an option, an athlete’s life feels out of balance or even, meaningless.
Unsafe vs Uncomfortable: 5 Minutes with Bo Hanson
Stepping out of your comfort zone is an important component to growth, personal development and achieving success. As Coaches, we continually encourage our athletes to get comfortable with the uncomfortable in order to expand skill development and improve results. However, there is a big difference between creating experiences and/or environments that are uncomfortable and those that are unsafe. In this ‘5 Minutes with Bo Hanson’, we discuss the important differences between being unsafe and being uncomfortable.
5 Minutes with Bo Hanson: Environmental Impact
We believe that if you alter the environment, you alter the behavior that emerges from within it, this includes; individual behavior, team dynamics, accountability and trust. As Coaches (and sports administrators), our aim is to create an environment within our sports program or club that promotes and nourishes growth.
Team Cohesion: 5 Minutes with Bo Hanson
At Athlete Assessments, we believe building relationships and understanding your fellow athletes as individuals helps create social cohesion and ultimately synergy. As a Coach, it is important to create an environment where your athletes can build social connections and high quality relationships in order to enjoy their sport. Building a high level of social cohesion can be the key to creating synergy within your team. So what are you doing to create social cohesion?
Team Standards: 5 Minutes with Bo Hanson
In this week’s 5 Minutes with Bo Hanson, we discuss one of the most common issues we see with team’s – team identity and team standards.
Accountable Athletes: 5 Minutes with Bo Hanson
In this week’s 5 Minutes with Bo Hanson, we discuss specific strategies for coaching accountable athletes. Accountability is doing what you say you’re going to do
Recognizing strengths in DISC Profiles: 5 Minutes with Bo Hanson
In this 5 Minute with Bo Hanson, Bo talks about recognizing strengths in DISC Profiles. Coaches can often see their athletes’ limitations, but can overlook their strengths when it comes to behaviors.
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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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