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The Power of Positive Coaching: Positive Coaches are artists, using all the paints on their palette to create a masterpiece in each athlete and with the team.
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Positive Coaching Digital Workshop:
Open Enrollment is happening …Details
Enrolled Coaches
University of Missouri Positive Coaching Online Master’s Degree:
All online! …Program Info
About Positive Coaching
Positive Coaching provides coaches a scientifically and philosophically sound way to teach athletes how to compete and perform their very best on a consistent basis. Positive Coaching empowers athletes to prepare better, perform better, achieve more, and experience personal excellence. This drives them to be prouder, happier, healthier, and more fulfilled for their investment, and motivates athletes to come back and do even more!
When is it right to be disrespectful to another person?
When is it right to be disrespectful of a person with whom we have the opportunity of serving as their coach?
When is it right or necessary to be a negative coach?
NEVER!!
Positive Coaching IS that best way. Positive Coaching is BEST coaching! Positive Coaching is RIGHT coaching! Positive Coaching is REAL coaching!
The Mission of Positive Coaching
To promote POSITIVE COACHING in sport at all levels, and to enhance lives and society by “Winning Kids with Sport!”
Positive Coaching develops competitive athletes and teams by teaching and modeling
the process of how to be a SuCCCCCCCess, both in and out of sport!
Demanding Not Demeaning!
The Building Blocks of Positive Coaching

The Science of Positive Coaching
Nowhere in the research or literature is there even the slightest suggestion that the best way to coach athletes and teams to become the very best that they can be would be through Threatening, Intimidating, Demeaning and/or Bullying! This is Negative Coaching!
Positive Coaching is built on the best foundations of psychology, both historically and currently, that informs us about how to teach, guide, nurture, support, encourage & coach people into being the best they can be.
Positive Coaching fuses the best ideas, best concepts, and best practices as established in the fields of General Psychology, Educational Psychology, Positive Psychology, Sport Psychology and Traditional Coaching Theory. Specifically, Positive Coaching draws upon work from Maslow, Bandura, Deci & Ryan, Seligman, Noddings, Dweck, Csikszentmihalyi & Jackson, and Buckingham & Coffman.
The Foundations of Positive Coaching
- Striving for excellence.
- Understanding that it does matter that we win… but it’s not all that matters.
- Achieving optimal performance.
- Teaching and modeling the process of success.
- Leading a group to become a highly effective team.
- Nurturing Intrinsic Motivation.
- Communicating with our athletes just as we would want to be communicated with by our own leaders.
- Respecting and protecting the self-worth of every athlete.
- Being Demanding, without being Demeaning.
- Shaping the athlete’s will without breaking his or her spirit.
- Realizing that it does matter that we win…because it absolutely does matter that we win in the life of every athlete with whom we have the opportunity to serve as their coach!
Want to become a Positive Coach?
The workshop opens August 2019, enroll now to save your seat!