The Checkerboard Coaching Technique sm The Coach Whisperer
The premise to this article is by giving a head coach or even a professional player, a statistical reference to view and understand their play, they can win right now. It is my opinion that any team in professional sports has the capacity to win with their existing team and players.
They can do this by optimizing the best abilities of each player, in a proven statistical format. that is what the Checkerboard Coaching Technique does. Often times a real life example is the best teacher. With that in mind let me use this real life true story.
The regular hockey season ended and it was playoff time. In visiting with the head coach I asked how he felt his chances were to win the whole thing. He was frank and starring at his list of players on the clipboard. "Not good. We are great defensively, but we can't score. All the other teams we will face have scored more goals than we have."
I simply asked if I could help with that. To the coaches credit he said I am all ears. That willingness to listen at a critical moment, is one key. Keep in mind this coach and his staff have worked an entire season of games and practices to reach this point. I had observed the games but did not have one ounce of input into game strategy of any kind. It would be a natural response to say thanks for your thoughts but we will have to figure this one our, or any number of other responses. Instead this coach, on that day said he would listen.
In the span of less than five minutes I summarized my credentials, to assure him some thought would be going into what he was about to hear. Then I explained the statistical and historical president for what I was about to recommend. I said in the history of this game of great players, the number one point scoring play in both goals and assists, from the number one goal and point leader in the history of the game was one play. Have you heard of the play I asked. He then said refresh me, and I gave him the name of the play and why that play, employed by his team may be his answer.
That team and that coaching staff won the title, and championship, in double overtime, scoring on that play. The coach waved me out on the ice for the celebration, and as I approached he slapped me on the chest, open hand and said, "thanks for the tip. We practiced that play for 45 minutes each practice since you told me that."
Just a whisper in a coaches ear really, at a critical time, lead to a championship win that everyone on that team will carry with them the rest of their lives. This experience has lead the title of this article, the coach whisperer, and what this technique offers.
They can do this by optimizing the best abilities of each player, in a proven statistical format. that is what the Checkerboard Coaching Technique does. Often times a real life example is the best teacher. With that in mind let me use this real life true story.
The regular hockey season ended and it was playoff time. In visiting with the head coach I asked how he felt his chances were to win the whole thing. He was frank and starring at his list of players on the clipboard. "Not good. We are great defensively, but we can't score. All the other teams we will face have scored more goals than we have."
I simply asked if I could help with that. To the coaches credit he said I am all ears. That willingness to listen at a critical moment, is one key. Keep in mind this coach and his staff have worked an entire season of games and practices to reach this point. I had observed the games but did not have one ounce of input into game strategy of any kind. It would be a natural response to say thanks for your thoughts but we will have to figure this one our, or any number of other responses. Instead this coach, on that day said he would listen.
In the span of less than five minutes I summarized my credentials, to assure him some thought would be going into what he was about to hear. Then I explained the statistical and historical president for what I was about to recommend. I said in the history of this game of great players, the number one point scoring play in both goals and assists, from the number one goal and point leader in the history of the game was one play. Have you heard of the play I asked. He then said refresh me, and I gave him the name of the play and why that play, employed by his team may be his answer.
That team and that coaching staff won the title, and championship, in double overtime, scoring on that play. The coach waved me out on the ice for the celebration, and as I approached he slapped me on the chest, open hand and said, "thanks for the tip. We practiced that play for 45 minutes each practice since you told me that."
Just a whisper in a coaches ear really, at a critical time, lead to a championship win that everyone on that team will carry with them the rest of their lives. This experience has lead the title of this article, the coach whisperer, and what this technique offers.
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