By partnering with PCA, you have made a commitment to place character education at the top of your coaching objectives and to create a Positive Coaching culture in which athletes can grow, be challenged and have fun.
As you know, the culture-changing process will not happen overnight. We’re here to help you put a structure in place that will allow your Positive Coaching initiative to grow year after year.

ADMINISTRATIVE TOOLS FOR COACHES

• Coach/Parent Pre-Season Meeting Agenda

TOOLS FOR COACHING

• Double-Goal Coach Job Description
• Positive Charting
•  Effort Goals
• Script for Coaches on Redefining Winning
• Script for Coaches on Filling the Emotional Tank
• Script for Honoring the Game
• Flushing and Parking
• Player Pep Talks

COACH PREPARATION TOOLS

• Developing a Coaching Philosophy
• Goal Setting Worksheet
• Preparing for Practice
• Intervening on the Sidelines
• How to Conduct a Practice Observation
• How a Head Coach Can Use Practice Observations
• Practice Observation Form

A Parent’s role in his/her child’s youth sports experience is to let the players and coaches focus on winning while he/she provides unconditional support for the child independent of performance. The list of tools below provide insight into how parents can contribute to an “Honor the Game” culture.
PARENT TOOLS

• Parent Letter: PCA Introduction
• Parent Pledge
• The Role of the Culture Keeper
• Game Day Tips for Parents
• Guidelines for a Coach/Parent Partnership
• When Parents Need to Intervene
• Empowering Conversations

PCA believes that the goal for any athlete should be to become a Triple-Impact Competitor.  The motto of a Triple-Impact Competitor is “better”:  making yourself, your teammates and the game better.
Triple-Impact Competitors make positive contributions on three levels:
* Personal Mastery: Making oneself better
* Leadership: Making one’s teammates better
* Honoring the Game: Making the sport better

PCA believes sports has two goals.
#1:  Striving to win
#2:  Learning about yourself and life.

Check out the tools below to learn more.

• Making Yourself Better
•  Making Your Teammates Better
• Making the Game Better
•  TIC Pledge

During a PCA Leadership Roundtable Call, Bruce Horowitz — co-founder of 2007 National Youth Sports Award Winner Beverly Hills Basketball League (BHBL) — explained how message bombardment fuels the league’s full implementation of its Positive Coaching initiative.

Bruce spoke of “2 minute drill” e-mails that he regularly sends to parents and coaches, highlighting nuggets of PCA wisdom. His aim: Sharing enough PCA principles with enough people that Honoring the Game becomes the cultural norm.

We’ve borrowed the “2 minute drill” from BHBL and will produce a new “drill” each month for both parents and coaches. We will send each “drill” to partners in PDF, text and web link.

We hope you forward each “2 minute drill” to all coaches and parents in your organization as a step toward ensuring the success of your Positive Coaching initiative.

 

ATHLETE

• Shane Battier on Leadership
• Shane Battier on Triple-Impact Competitor

 

PARENT

• What life lessons can your child take from sports?
• Seizing Teachable Moments

 

COACH

• The Magic Ratio
• Motivation Through Fun
• -Taken from the PCA Website