InSideOut Coaching: How Sports Can Transform Lives Author: Joe Ehrmann | Language: English | ISBN:
B004G8QTMA | Format: EPUB
InSideOut Coaching: How Sports Can Transform Lives Description
In this inspirational yet practical book, the man
Parade called “the most important coach in America,” subject of the national bestseller
Season of Life, Joe Ehrmann, describes his coaching philosophy and explains how sports can transform lives at every level of play, from the earliest years to professional sports.
Coaches have a tremendous platform, says Joe Ehrmann, a former Syracuse University All-American and NFL star. Perhaps second only to parents, coaches can impact young people as no one else can. But most coaches fail to do the teaching, mentoring, even life-saving intervention that their platform provides. Too many are transactional coaches; they focus solely on winning and meeting their personal needs. Some coaches, however, use their platform. They teach the Xs and Os, but also teach the Ys of life. They help young people grow into responsible adults; they leave a lasting legacy. These are the transformational coaches. These coaches change lives, and they also change society by helping to develop healthy men and women.
InSideOut Coaching explains how to become a transformational coach. Coaches first have to “go inside” and articulate their reasons for coaching. Only those who have taken the InSideOut journey can become transformational. Joe Ehrmann provides examples of coaches in his life who took this journey and taught him how to find something bigger than himself in sports.He describes his own InSideOut experience, starting with the death of his beloved brother, which helped him understand how sports could transcend the playing field. He gives coaches the information and the tools they need to become transformational.
Joe Ehrmann has taken his message about the extraordinary power of sports all over the country. It has been warmly endorsed by NFL head coaches, athletic directors at major universities, high school head coaches, even business groups and community organizations. Now any parent-coach or school or community coach can read Ehrmann’s message and learn how to make sports a life-changing experience.
- File Size: 3622 KB
- Print Length: 274 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1439182981
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster (August 2, 2011)
- Sold by: Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Inc
- Language: English
- ASIN: B004G8QTMA
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- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #61,658 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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Firstly, I would like to thank the author for book. There are many good snippets of information strewn throughout.
I appreciate that the author is willing to reveal his personal struggles with the reader.
There are quite a few gripes I have with this book and the authors intention.
The author does way too much preaching and there is a lot of repetition.
The book doesn't flow very well. In the first 2 chapters the author gives the reader some good background information about himself. Quite candid and revealing, but after that the book takes an endless tailspin until the reader decides it is better to jump out because to stay would be far worse. I got up to page 150, then skimmed to the end, where it gets really weird.
The irony of calling out a bully coach in chapter 3 and then ranting from the pulpit in chapter 4 is not lost on this reader and many others I suspect.
Actually, irony and ranting abound in this book which I find a little sad as the author tells us he is a nice guy that understands people and cares about their feelings. Obviously not enough to prevent him from ranting at us.
The chapters at the end regarding ceremony belong in some ancient manuscript, they are out of place in today's world. For example a "hero ceremony".
The author speaks to the reader as though they were a very small dog from a foreign country. He also believes that we have no idea what liberty, courage, leadership etc. mean, which I found quite patronising.
The author has also read a lot of books and lets the reader know it. He believes he has grasped the essence of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, but doesn't take an idea like Plato's definition of learning, and expand on it. He simply repeats what he has read from his books.
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