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“Much of leadership is about extracting the extra 5 per cent of performance that individuals did not know they possessed.” (Sir Alex Ferguson)ssss1

GET MOR3EE’S RELEVANCE AND OPPORTUNITY IN TODAY’S COACHING ENVIRONMENT

I am a coach, and I grew up as the grandson of a hall of fame coach who left an echoing legacy. The most influential people in my life have all been coaches. The foundation of many of the ideas and observations of GET MOR3EE came from observing and studying coaches and teams in competition over a season or seasons—much of it at the youth level.

We now face the challenge of a technological society where technology has both brought us closer together and at the same time drawn us farther apart. We have the ability to communicate more easily than ever before, but we struggle to keep the focus of our youth with so many things competing for their attention. How do we help them stay on task when it’s so easy to move on to the next thing when they face adversity? How do we still challenge them to strive for a goal and achieve more than they maybe thought possible?