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    Planning To Win: The Unseen Side of Coaching and Building a Successful Sports Program
    Planning To Win: The Unseen Side of Coaching and Building a Successful Sports Program
    Planning To Win: The Unseen Side of Coaching and Building a Successful Sports Program
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    Planning To Win: The Unseen Side of Coaching and Building a Successful Sports Program

    By Kevin Sivils

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    Say the word coaching and most people think about the so-called Xs and Os and think that is what coaching is all about. Other individuals will add teaching fundamental skills to the list.


    Not many individuals will look beyond that short list of skills and knowledge needed by coaches to be successful. Planning to Win: The Unseen Side of Coaching and Building a Successful Sports Program looks at the core of what it takes to build a winning sports program, a program that fields successful teams every sports season.


    Just a few of the topics covered in Planning to Win include:

    --Do you have a plan to win?

    --Essential keys to building a winning program

    --Building a culture of success

    --Developing player confidence

    --Relational coaching

    --Scheduling for success

    --Proactive relations with player parents

    --Developing an overriding purpose for the program

    These topics and more are covered in this Planning to Win, the second book in the Teach to Win Series: Skill Building for Coaches.

    The author has won nearly 500 varsity wins as a basketball coach and in the process has started a varsity program from scratch, rebuilt others and coached both boys and girls. The principles and concepts described in Planning to Win were essential to his success in building programs that could withstand the passage of time and yet continue to be successful every season.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKevin Sivils
    Release dateDec 18, 2013
    ISBN9781497703469
    Planning To Win: The Unseen Side of Coaching and Building a Successful Sports Program
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    Kevin Sivils

    A 25 year veteran of the coaching profession, with twenty-two of those years spent as a varsity head coach, Coach Kevin Sivils amassed 479 wins and his teams earned berths in the state play-offs 19 out of 22 seasons with his teams advancing to the state semi-finals three times.  An eight time Coach of the Year Award winner, Coach Sivils has traveled as far as the Central African Republic to conduct coaching clinics.  Coach Sivils first coaching stint was as an assistant coach for his college alma mater, Greenville College, located in Greenville, Illinois. Coach Sivils holds a BA with a major in physical education and a minor in social studies from Greenville College and a MS in Kinesiology with a specialization in Sport Psychology from Louisiana State University.  He also holds a Sport Management certification from the United States Sports Academy. In addition to being a basketball coach, Coach Sivils is a classroom instructor and has taught U.S. Government, U.S. History, the History of WW II, and Physical Education and has won awards for excellence in teaching and Teacher of the Year. He has served as an Athletic Director and Assistant Athletic Director and has also been involved in numerous professional athletic organizations. Sivils is married to the former Lisa Green of Jackson, Michigan, and the happy couple are the proud parents of three children, Danny, Katie, and Emily.  Rounding out the Sivils family are three dogs, Angel, Berkeley, and Al.  A native of Louisiana, Coach Sivils currently resides in the Great State of Texas.

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      Planning To Win - Kevin Sivils

      Contents

      About This Book

      Do You Have a  Plan to Win?

      Essential Keys to a  Winning Program

      Build a Culture  of Success

      The Road Map:  Overriding Purpose

      Show Them The Road Map The Key to Improvement

      Team Concept

      Fundamentally Sound

      Developing Player  Confidence Through  Fundamental

      The Spiral of Mastery* Developing Player Confidence

      Playing Hard

      Discipline

      Develop a Sound  System of Play

      You Get What  You Emphasize

      Setting Realistic  Expectations for Change

      Does Winning Matter?

      Does Losing Matter?

      Wooden and Winning

      Relational Coaching:  Making it Matter

      Character Counts

      Rewarding the  Intangibles of Sport

      The Connection Between  Motivation and Learning

      The Importance of  Communicating Roles  Effectively

      Aligning Team and  Individual Goals

      The Importance of Designing Effective Practice Sessions

      Mental Preparation for an Athletic Contest

      The Ability to Forget: Dealing With Mistakes Successfully

      Take a Proactive  Approach to Sports Parents

      Preventing Burnout

      Scheduling for Success

      For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

      ―RUDYARD KIPLING’s THE JUNGLE BOOK

      Preface

      About This Book

      This book is meant to help any coach of a team sport who wants to build a successful team oriented sports program. I have done the best I can to be as neutral as possible in terms of sport specific content.

      Having said that, please understand I am first, and foremost a basketball coach. I have never been a head coach of any other sport nor have I wanted to be. For the most part I have been able, I hope, to provide a reasonably balanced and sport specific neutral body of information.

      There are chapters though, such as the chapter titled Character Counts, where the fact I am a basketball coach simply shines through. In fact, the chapter, like some of the material in this book is an excerpt from one of my books written specifically for basketball coaches.

      The information is still relevant, regardless of the sport. Please simply substitute your sport for mine.

      When I have used excerpts from other books I have written, I have indicated at the end of the chapter the book the excerpt was taken from.

      The bulk of this book has been drawn not from other books I have previously written, but from an all sports blog I once maintained bearing the name Teach to Win.

      I hope the lessons I have learned in my nearly three decades of coaching are worth sharing to the coaches who read this book.

      The very nature of building a winning sports program for team sports is difficult to be all-inclusive in a book of this nature and length.

      If you have any questions about the information in this book, or coaching in general, please feel free to contact me and ask your question. The information on how to contact me can be found at the rear of the book.

      Chapter one

      Do You Have a

      Plan to Win?

      More importantly, do your players know how to win? Bobby Knight might be well known for his volcanic temper, but he knows a thing or two about winning. One of my favorite quotes from Coach Knight is the will to win is overrated. The will to prepare to win is what matters.

      Part of preparing your team to win requires knowing how the game will be won. Do you have a plan to win? For the game, district or league play, the regular season and the post-season.

      It certainly seems logical to have a well thought plan to win. How many coaches actually take the time to sit down and develop such a plan? What components make up a plan to win and how all encompassing should the plan be?

      Planning to build a successful program, one that allows teams to have success and win, requires vision and a clear idea of what the finished product should look like. It is necessary to begin with the end in mind.

      The first stage of crafting a plan to win is to craft the program’s overriding purpose, the guiding principles that control and guide the decision making process for every individual involved in the program. What are the non-negotiables of the program? The principles and concepts that must withstand the test of time, adversity and change.

      What are the immediate goals of the program? What future goals have been set? Who will be evaluating the progress of the program? Sometimes these are factors beyond the control of the coach but must be a part of the planning process. What level of success will be considered acceptable and how quickly must that level of play be reached? How will it be sustained or can it even be sustained?

      Style of play is often important but in the case of high schools or middle schools, it can be dictated by the quality of the athletes available. To some extent this is less of a factor in the collegiate and pro ranks as players can be recruited, drafted or signed as free agents to fit a particular style of play.

      Once a style of play and the level of desired success have been identified, what kind of support, facilities, equipment and finances will be required to achieve the desired outcome? Where will these resources come from?

      Where will players come from? How will they be enticed into joining and committing to the program? How will players be developed? What part will the teaching and mastery of fundamentals play in the program?

      What role will promotion play in the success of the program? How will promotion be carried out and who will be responsible?

      What type of coaching staff will be possible and how will the staff be developed? How will staff responsibilities and duties be defined and divided?

      How will adverse situations be dealt with when they arise, and adversity will strike like clockwork. Players and coaches must embrace adversity to be successful.

      Motivation? What role will this important factor play? What type of motivational approaches and techniques will be used? How will goal setting be done and who will be responsible for implementation and record keeping?

      All too many programs have little thought or planning in how all of these factors are to work together. The result is often a team that underachieves or performs poorly. Sometimes, due to a lack of planning, differing approaches to teaching, motivation and player develop cause the program to work against itself due to conflict within the program design.

      The best programs, the ones who produce winning teams season after season, are well planned and have considered how each and every piece of the puzzle fits together. Successful coaches spend more time in the planning phase to make sure everything is ready before the first meeting for the next season. These coaches consider all the pieces to the puzzle and have a plan.

      Spend time this off-season developing a master plan. It will be time well spent.

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