Shared Vision: Building Team Success in Highly Competitive Environments. Building team success in highly competitive environments requires passion, commitment, and relentless effort throughout your organization. Building the type of passion and commitment necessary for teams and organizations to win; really win, requires all members to align their goals, objectives, hearts, and minds toward a guiding purpose that is larger than each individual, or their sum. Leaders do not decide who leads; followers do by voting with their passion to a purpose that is larger than self. People will not commit themselves to struggle for just anything, or anyone! Arguably, one of the most differentiating qualities of the absolute best organizational leaders is the ability to create and articulate a vision for the future of which other people want to see themselves be a part. The leaders who clearly separate themselves from the pack can paint a picture of the future that can ignite the passion of others, inspire the very best in their constituents, and enlist the hearts and minds of teammates, by moving us and helping us see a better and ideal tomorrow along with our own personal success within. Shared Vision walks Organizational Managers, Executives, Coaches, Student Athletes, and Administrators through the process of self-discovery, and understanding how individual values, attitudes, moods, and emotions inform an organization and its “shared” purpose. Through a thorough understanding individual values, leaders and teams can begin to define “shared values”. In understanding individual aspirations, leaders and teams can begin to define and collaborate upon “shared aspirations”. Through deliberate practice and reflection, teams create and articulate a “Shared Vision” for their organization, or team, which can guide them toward organizational success. Utilizing the latest leadership theories, real-world examples, stories, and exercises, leaders and followers will engage in a mutual, ongoing collaborative process of raising one another to higher levels of motivation, cohesion, and performance by appealing to common values, beliefs, and attitudes of teammates. Thus, teams create meaningful work, promote well-being, enable one another, and increase satisfaction, resulting in the passion and commitment necessary to compete fiercely.
COMING SOON! Effective Coaching: The Art and Science of Teaching Students Applied to Coaching Athletes. Coach educators and coach education programs have always done a good job of providing new and aspiring coaches the technical knowledge and skills needed to be a good coach. Some programs even go as far as providing coach candidates the opportunity to learn different ways to connect with their athletes. However, these programs fall short when it comes to providing our coaches the same type of training and education that is required for new classroom teachers and provided to our professional educators. We have all heard that good coaching is good teaching, but we are not fully training our coaches to be good teachers until we include the art and science of teaching as part of the coach education curriculum. The pursuit of coaching knowledge in order to achieve a high degree of expertise is a never-ending journey, and a range of circumstances can influence a coach's development as an expert. As a result, there is no one-size-fits-all road to becoming an experienced sports teacher, and the coach must be willing to relearn things and adjust to changes along the way. Coaches must also consciously challenge themselves to grow and develop emotionally and professionally in order to pursue expertise. While an excellent coach may exhibit many of the traits of coaching skill, one of the most important components in athlete growth is the capacity to deliver successful instruction through a range of educational approaches. Art and science of teaching is the discipline that involves the theory and practice of how best to teach. Effective coaches employ a firm foundation of sport knowledge, also known as content knowledge, to assist athletes in learning. According to research, good teaching skills are required for coaching expertise. Poor coaching is described by many athletes as an inability to deliver teaching on activity-related skills, a failure to individualize training, and a lack of expertise on how to educate successfully. As a result, coaches must build teaching skills in order to impart sport-specific content to their athletes in a way that is both understandable and personalized. Unfortunately, too many coaches coach the way they were coached by using old school techniques of intimidating, yelling, and bullying. Today’s coaches need to be well-versed on teaching methods, differentiated instruction, learning styles, instructional modalities, and assessment techniques. This is the art and science of teaching students that needs to be applied to coaching athletes to ensure our coaches are effective.
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Dr. Jon Metz Biography |
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Effectiveness is determined by the technical, professional, and personal competencies of a coach. Each of the competence areas, needed to be an effective coach, will be discussed and explained. Workshop participants will have an opportunity to identify thier own learning style and synthesize methods to best connect with an athlete who has a different learning style. Planning an effective session with a close look at performance and session objectives derived from cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains of learning will also be covered.
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Dr. Jon Metz holds a Master of Science in Education and Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership. Additionally, Dr. Metz is an experienced Coach. His international and domestic coaching experience includes camps, clinics, groups, teams, and individuals. Beyond working with athletes, he instructs and mentors coaches, from all sports, in the area of effective coaching. His experience in the field of education and athletics is the perfect combination to ensure coaches understand and apply teaching skills to better connect with their athletes. Dr. Metz is the founding President of the College Triathlon Coaches Association (CTCA). The CTCA was established to provide educational, professional, technical, and competitive support to the membership. Furthermore, the CTCA seeks to develop the sport among all NCAA institutions. Dr. Metz was instrumental in creating one of the first NCAA Varsity Triathlon Programs in the United States.
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