“COACH TO COACH: An Empowering Story about How to Be a Great Leader,” Foreword by Phil Simms (Wiley, March 10, 2020), an inspiring parable that will help rewrite our modern coaching programs. Reminiscent of classic titles like Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays with Morrie and Jon Gordon’s The Energy Bus, COACH TO COACH offers simple and effective strategies and principles about how to be a great coach and leader, Rooney presents the fundamental framework for what it is to be a great coach and the responsibilities one has when he or she takes on this most important job. If there were a version of the Hippocratic Oath for modern coaches at all levels, COACH TO COACH would be the extended version.
We have begun a different era of coaching. The days of haphazard, manipulative, punitive, and ego-driven mentorship are over…and probably never should have been. Eliciting the best out of our young athletes, employees and children takes a different skill set now. An intentional and intentionally positive one. Success at any level of engagement—on and off the field of play—stems from a coach’s genuine enthusiasm, optimism, empathy, selflessness and curiosity. Every coach has more to learn and we all need help in taking better care of the truly meaningful and influential interactions in our lives: Coach to Player. Employer to Employee. Friend to Friend. Parent to Child. Peer to Peer. COACH TO COACH.
COACH TO COACH also covers these important concepts and techniques:
Identifying how a coach finds the intersection of one’s passion and one’s purpose.
The two most important abilities of a coach: Coachability and Availability.
As coaches empty a player’s physical “tank,” they should simultaneously be filling the emotional one.
How “mastery” is making complex ideas and practices simple, not making simple ones more complex.
How the best way for a coach to get stronger is to lift someone else up.
When a coach really believes in someone or something—heart and soul—others have no choice but to start to believe it too.
How great coaches must learn to properly give credit and accept blame.
The best way to use your enthusiasm and vulnerability to build trust.
The simple skill for identifying your players’ ultimate goals and driving force.
The five most powerful words in coaching: “I am proud of you.”
Rooney’s story of a young man in search of the keys to coaching greatness is skillfully layered with scientifically supported techniques and the time-tested breakthroughs that Rooney himself has used in decades of coaching elite athletes. COACH TO COACH is a valuable resource for coaches at all levels, and actually reminds us why coaching is one of the most honorable professions.
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