PERSPECTIVE DEVELOPMENT

Perspective is defined simply as “your point of view” or “your way of seeing things.” It’s the manner in which you observe and interpret the daily events, issues, and experiences you face in life as a coach. Your perspective serves as the primary reflection of your purpose, and the primary driver of your performance. 

The challenge for each of us in coaching is that there are always forces and factors working to distort our perspective, distract us from our purpose, and diminish our performance. It could be stress or pressure. It could be criticism or complacency. It could be fatigue or frustration or fear. Those things are real in the life of every coach, and each one of them has the potential to shift our focus and distort our perspective. If we aren’t careful, some of the things we should really care about - some of the things most critical to fulfilling our purpose and elevating our performance - can get overlooked, set aside, or neglected altogether. There’s a level of self-awareness that not only becoming our best - but maintaining it - requires us to possess. Each of us has to constantly recalibrate the lens that clarifies what matters most, what’s worthy of our time and attention, and what can get in the way of being the coach and leader our people need us to be.

The coursework in this section will help you answer some important questions, like…

•how does clarifying my perspective change what I see and how I lead, both here in the present and into the future?

•what are core values, and what are the benefits and drawbacks of creating and clarifying that list for myself and for my team?

•what do I want to be the primary driver of my decisions and and the essential elements of the experience I create each day?

•how do I effectively bring my core values to life, and use them to impact my players, both on the playing field and in life beyond it?

 
 

The American author and philosopher Henry David Thoreau probably wasn’t thinking about coaches when he wrote those words…but he could’ve been. That quote speaks to the power of our perspective, and the important responsibility we have - to make sure we see clearly what winning today requires from us. Why? Because stress and pressure, criticism and complacency, fatigue and frustration and fear are all working to distract you from what matters most. For each of us as coaches, it’s clear perspective that drives winning performance.

Virtual training courses in this section include:

  • The Power of Your Perspective

  • Creating and Clarifying Your Core Values

  • Champions Aren’t Born. They’re Built. (part 1)

  • Champions Aren’t Born. They’re Built. (part 2)

  • T.E.A.M. Personal Inventory

  • T.E.A.M. Others Inventory

  • T.E.A.M. Results Written Reflection