Are you a coach who’s looking for ways to become a more effective leader and influencer with your athletes and teams, and you:
- Wonder how you can make a bigger difference and impact with your athletes and teams on and off the playing field?
- Want strategies that can increase your coaching self-awareness, wisdom, and expertise?
- Wrestle with balancing individual athlete development and team performance?
With over 50 years of combined coaching experience, John Yeager and Jon Cunha pull out all the stops in this book to guide you through increasing your self-awareness, empowering your athletes, and evolving culture to maximize team success and satisfaction. The Coaching Zone is loaded with concepts, exercises, self-evaluation tools, and stories, combined with insights from over 50 coaches to help you expand your coaching wisdom and expertise.
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Written by coaches for coaches, The Coaching Zone: Next Level Leadership in Sports is the most complete book on coaching you will read. If you are a coach that wonders how to create better relationships, improve communication, and have more on-the-field team success, then you must pick up a copy of this book. The authors provide plenty of real-life stories and practical exercises to help new and seasoned coaches become masters of their craft.
- Mitchell Greene, Ph.D., Clinical & Sport Psychologist
About the Authors
John Yeager is a positive psychology consultant and performance coach who works with coaches and athletes at the youth, high school, college, Olympic, and professional levels. As a former elite athlete and coach and currently the chief education officer at Yeager Leadership, his presentations and training programs have motivated and inspired audiences around the United States.
Jon Cunha, a former track and field coach and three-time All-American athlete, is a licensed mental health counselor. Jon is the Co-Owner of Riser and Tread, a company dedicated to helping young guys ages 8-25 "Step Up + Move Forward." He has developed a Sports Performance + Recovery training program for athletes, coaches, and organizations to strengthen mental fitness and help injured athletes recover.
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John Yeager's presentations and training programs have inspired audiences around the United States because they draw on his broad experience as illustrious athlete, experienced coach, and organizational behavior consultant. As a former elite lacrosse goaltender at the high school, college, and professional levels, John is a member of the Lacrosse Halls of Fame of New England, Eastern Massachusetts, and UMASS Boston/Boston State. He was named one of the top 20 New England lacrosse players of all time by the New England Lacrosse Journal. He translated what he learned as an athlete into effective high school and college coaching in Massachusetts and Indiana. John is himself a life-long learner. Extending his interests beyond the playing field, he earned his doctorate in education at Boston University. Later he graduated from the country's first graduate-level program in applied positive psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. More recently, he became a certified Polarity Thinking(TM) consultant. Combining study with direct experience gives John a unique understanding of the needs of coaches for continuous learning. He is the Chief Education Officer at Yeager Leadership, a consulting firm that works with corporate and sports organizations. John has written for Sports Illustrated.com and been quoted in Sports Illustrated and The New York Times Magazine. John continues to work actively with coaches and teams to meet the ever-changing challenges in the world of sports.
Jon Cunha is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC). He earned his master's degree from Lesley University in clinical mental health counseling. Jon is a co-owner of Riser and Tread, a company dedicated to helping young people ages 8-25 Step Up + Move Forward. Jon specializes in working with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder(ADHD), anxiety, depression, and mental performance. He also has a passion for sports. Jon was a three-time All-American in track and field at Wheaton College (MA) until injury ended his aspirations of reaching the Olympics. That experience motivated him to support others going through similar disappointments. He has developed a training program for athletes, coaches, and organizations to strengthen mental fitness and performance. Along with his clinical license, Jon also coached track and field for almost a decade. He now combines the benefits of therapeutic interventions, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), with athletic coaching principles, such as goal setting, facing fear, purpose development, and mindfulness.
