More GREAT info from the Positive Coaching Alliance!  One of the best organizations around pertaining to youth sports and coaching.  If you want to be a better coach, please take the time to read what the Positive Coaching Alliance has to say about having a Teachable Spirit.  You can also learn more by going to www.positivecoach.org.

Teachable Spirit

• Sports is about more than winning on the scoreboard. It’s about helping you become better

people who will be successful in life after you are done with sports. We want you to fulfill your

potential as individuals who will make the world a better place.

• The way we will do that is through helping you become Triple-Impact Competitors. A Triple-Impact

Competitor makes himself /herself better, his/her teammates better and the game better by the

way he/she competes.

• Having a “teachable spirit” is the key to becoming a Triple-Impact Competitor. A Triple-Impact

Competitor is a sponge.

A sponge absorbs all the liquid around it. We want you to develop a teachable spirit. We want you

to always be looking to learn something new that can make you a better player and us a

better team.

• The person with a teachable spirit is curious. We want you to be curious. If you don’t know how to

do something, WAG your way through it.

1) Watch someone who knows how to do it.

2) Ask someone to teach you or show you how.

3) Get coaching. Ask someone to be your coach as you try to learn it.

• We want you to develop the habit of someone who is always hungry to learn and get better.

That means developing the habit of having a Teachable Spirit.

Reflection-Discussion Topics

This week I want you to ask at least one question every practice. Let’s start right now. Find a partner

and share something that you want to learn to do better this week. Think of something you want to

get better at and tell that to your partner.

• Who is willing to tell us what you want to learn this week?

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