Coaching Archive

  • Help Wanted

    Get Help!!!

    Friends, Last week I invited you to commit to making this the best year of your life.  Part of making 2012 my best year on the planet is reaching the specific Big Hairy Audacious Goal of landing a TV show to engage everyday leaders around...

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    Kid Kate Coaches on Coaching

    Friends, I can’t quite figure out what to think of the fact that Kate, our oldest daughter, was the one of our three kids who seemed to need the most coaching; and now at 22, she’s expert and forthright.  I look up to her for...

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    It’s Okay to Leave it Blank

    Friends, I was with a friend of mine this week who is a lifelong educator.  He was working with his fourth grader on her homework, and his daughter was getting frustrated and nervous that she couldn’t figure out a couple of problems.  His advice to...

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    Everyday Leadership – Everyday Followership

    Friends, So, we’re out here in far away California. Our house feels like a summer cottage – lots of wood and windows-to-nature and walls that don’t require northern insulation – and we feel like we’re on vacation. Classes don’t start until late August. Jack’s cool...

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  • Coaches and Hard Goals part 2

    Coaches and Hard Goals part 2

    In the last segment of the show Dan talks about perspective taking and investment. Not investment like money, but our investment with upcoming generation.

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  • Jim Epolito, Dan and Jim Hoff-Thanks and Appreciation

    Jim Epolito, Dan and Jim Hoff-Thanks and Appreciation

    On the appreciation show Dan also discussed the wisdom sport coaches pass onto their players. Coaches play a big role in growth, development, character building during adolescence. Coaches become mentors during key years in an athletes career, be it at the college or professional level....

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  • Dan Talks About Coaching

    So, Say You Want to Offer Someone Some Coaching

    Friends, With the publication of my new book, Be Real last week I thought I’d try something new: a video version of Reading for Leading.  It’s one of my absolute favorite ideas – with credit to my friends at PMP in Bingham Farms – on...

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