
Dan O’Brien: Turning a Team Around
Dan O’Brien Head Coach Santa Clara University Baseball Entering his 4th year for the Broncos, 18th year as a Head Coach Has won eleven ‘Coach
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Dan O’Brien Head Coach Santa Clara University Baseball Entering his 4th year for the Broncos, 18th year as a Head Coach Has won eleven ‘Coach

Finding a great quote about coaching can turn your day around, give you a new breath of motivation, or even become an idea you hold

There are many different learning strategies designed to help athletes develop. As a coach, what are your strategies? This article is a follow up from our article on the 11 Qualities of Optimal Learning Environments. In that article the fourth quality of an optimal learning environment was coaches providing multiple teaching and sports coaching methods to help their athlete’s progress. Learn more about the following methods in order to better communicate and educate your athletes.

Our model of sport at Athlete Assessments sees coaches as teachers. In fact, we have often found the most effective coaches actually came from a teaching education background and are qualified in this area of skill and knowledge.

By Bo Hanson – 4x Olympian, Coaching Consultant & Director of Athlete Assessments As a coach, there are some models that it is vital you

By Bo Hanson – 4x Olympian, Coaching Consultant & Director of Athlete Assessments Every coach would have experienced an athlete personality clash in their team

By Bo Hanson – 4x Olympian, Coaching Consultant & Director of Athlete Assessments Is your team missing its most important ingredient to success? Every

By Bo Hanson – 4x Olympian, Coaching Consultant & Director of Athlete Assessments Recently we saw a fantastic article which featured Michael Phelps’s Swimming Coach,

By Bo Hanson – 4x Olympian, Coaching Consultant & Director of Athlete Assessments This article was written for those with an understanding of how the

We all know that in the highly stressful environment of elite sport (and even social sport), conflict is bound to occur. Coaches need to know the best way to understand, recognize and manage conflict in a way that results in a positive outcome. Dealing with conflict is a delicate yet necessary part of any coach’s role, so we have also included a guide to the Critical Conversations you will need to make regularly in your coaching career.