The Art of Motivation for Team Sports: A Guide for Coaches

by Jim Hinkson, Jack Armstrong TV analyst for the Toront (Foreword by)

Overview

The challenge for today’s modern coach is to push players without risking burnout, inspire them without bullying, and discipline players without constantly yelling. While no two coaches have the exact same approach to motivating their team, there are certain leadership skills coaches can develop to get the most out of their team, no matter the sport or the skill level.

In The Art of Motivation for Team Sports: A Guide for Coaches, Jim Hinkson provides coaches with details and tips on how to motivate their team throughout the season. While most coaching books cover individual leadership or specific practice drills, this book focuses on how to motivate the entire team through setting goals, planning practices so as to keep players engaged and improving, pregame and postgame speeches, building quality relationships, and redefining success as more than just winning. In addition, this bookincludes team-building exercises and team behavior and value goals, stressing the importance that coaches not only create a successful team but also develop quality people who will excel outside the athletic arena.

The many practical tips and keys to coaching success provided in this bookwere built from Jim Hinkson’s years as a professional athlete and fine-tuned from his decades of coaching experience. A clear and comprehensive resource, The Art of Motivation for Team Sports will be invaluable to coaches at the youth, high school, and college levels.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781538105665
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	12/20/2017
Pages:	382
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Jim Hinkson has been a teacher and basketball coach for 38 years in the Toronto District School Board. He has been involved in lacrosse for forty years as a player, a coach, and an author. Hinkson played lacrosse professionally for the National Lacrosse League (NLL) and played for Canada in the World Field Lacrosse Championship. He has not only coached at every level in lacrosse—from junior up to professional—he also ran one of the most successful high school basketball programs in Toronto. Hinkson is the author of Box Lacrosse (1974), Lacrosse Fundamentals (1993/2006), Lacrosse Team Strategies (1996/2006), The Art of Team Coaching (2001), Lacrosse for Dummies (2003/2009), and another book titled Lacrosse Fundamentals (2012). He has been inducted into the 'shawa Hall of Fame, the Whitby Hall of Fame, and the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame.

Table of Contents

Foreword from The Art of Motivation for Sports Jack Armstrong ix

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xix

Part I Motivating Through Leadership

1 What It Takes to Be a Successful Motivating Coach 3

2 Motivating through Your Coaching Philosophy 9

3 Using Your Own Coaching Style and Personality to Motivate 35

4 Motivating by Making Good Decisions and Team Selections 62

5 Increasing Your Knowledge of Coaching to Help Motivate 77

Part II Motivating Through Setting Goals and Team Rules

6 The Art of Motivation 85

7 Motivating by Sharing Power in Team Meetings 92

8 Motivating through Setting the Team's Season Outcome Goal 100

9 Motivating through Setting the Team's Performance Goals 112

10 Motivating through Setting the Team's Behavior Goals 127

11 Team Cohesion Goals to Motivate and Build Team Unity 159

12 Motivating through the Team's Value Goals 174

13 Discipline and Enforcing Team Rules 180

Part III Motivating Through Planning and Teaching Strategies

14 Organizing, Preparing, and Planning the Season 195

15 Motivating through the Teaching of Fundamentals 205

16 Motivating by Running a Good Practice 226

17 Motivating with a Quality Playing System 249

Part IV Motivating By Working With Individual Players

18 Motivating through Communication with Your Players 259

19 Motivating by Building Relationships 271

20 Motivating by Building Self-Esteem 281

21 Selecting and Creating Team Leaders 287

Part V Motivating Through Pre- and Postgame Speeches and Game Coaching

22 The Motivational Game Plan and Pregame Speech 297

23 Presentation of Postgame Speeches 312

24 Motivating through Game Coaching 326

Appendix: Sayings for Pregame Speeches 343

Selected Bibliography 353

Index 357

About the Author 361

Editorial Reviews

From the foreword: Jim Hinkson’s comprehensive look at all the aspects of the profession is both detail-oriented and, more importantly, quite insightful. He provides wonderful food for thought for coaches of all ages and levels.

Jack Armstrong