Quentin Joerik Michiels' The Player Development Blueprint My friend, Joerik Michiels, is a top-notch skills trainer from Belgium. I have had the great privilege to watch him work for the last five years during his visits to Canada. He is one of the world's best coaches at infusing skill development and constraints-led learning. He is also a firm believer that basketball is the vehicle for developing better people. He has just released the Player Development Blueprint, which shares all he has...
18 days ago • 5 min read
Quentin Joerik Michiels' The Player Development Blueprint My friend, Joerik Michiels, is a top-notch skills trainer from Belgium. I have had the great privilege to watch him work for the last five years during his visits to Canada. He is one of the world's best coaches at infusing skill development and constraints-led learning. He is also a firm believer that basketball is the vehicle for developing better people. He has just released the Player Development Blueprint, which shares all he has...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Quentin Joerik Michiels' The Player Development Blueprint My friend, Joerik Michiels, is a top-notch skills trainer from Belgium. I have had the great privilege to watch him work for the last five years during his visits to Canada. He is one of the world's best coaches at infusing skill development and constraints-led learning. He is also a firm believer that basketball is the vehicle for developing better people. He has just released the Player Development Blueprint, which shares all he has...
about 2 months ago • 9 min read
Quentin Building Championship Culture Through Standards: How Great Coaches Shape Great Teams I am working in a new school for the first time in 23 years. I wanted change and change I have gotten. It has been challenging in ways I did not expect and rewarding in ways I did not anticipate. But it has certainly been different Having spent 23 years in the same school, I'm a bit like Red in The Shawshank Redemption. I am institutionalized. Very accustomed to how things worked in my old school. The...
2 months ago • 5 min read
Quentin From Stimulus to Response: Building Emotional Intelligence in Coaches and Athletes. George Mumford has led a truly remarkable life. His college roomate was Dr. J, he rose to the top of his profession in finance while combating a heroin addiction. He then turned to mindfulness and meditation to help fight addiction, and his life changed. He has spent the last 40 years teaching meditation and helping athletes and teams. He joined the Bulls as part of Phil Jackson's staff and continued...
3 months ago • 9 min read
Quentin The Four Pillar Framework to Prevent Burnout In the last five years, there have been a large number of high-profile coaches who have walked away from the highest level of their sport. Jurgen Klopp, Roy Williams, Tony Bennett, Jay Write and Nick Saban have all walked away from championship teams and programs. All cited a crushing work load, the changing nature of their athletes and burnout as the reasons behind their resignations. Things must have been terrible for them to walk away...
4 months ago • 4 min read
Quentin The Hidden Tool Elite Coaches Use to Build Championship Teams Every coach wants to lead effectively, inspire their athletes, and build strong team culture. Many coaches find themselves uncertain and floundering without any clear direction. Without a clear philosophy to lean on, decisions can feel reactive and inconsistent. I discovered the power of a written coaching philosophy through Pete Carroll’s book Win Forever: Live, Work, and Play Like a Champion. After being fired by the New...
5 months ago • 2 min read
Quentin Helping your Athletes Harness the Power of Visualization In the last issue I wrote about the importance of priming our brain with the messages and images we want to experience in our lives. Quite simply, our brains will provide us evidence to support what we believe. It is hard-wired to do so. Teaching your athletes a visualization practice allows them to formalize this process. When I look into the habits of the world's best athletes, performers and entreprenurs they all employ a...
5 months ago • 4 min read
Quentin What you Focus on you Find: The Power of Our Inner Narrative. Every minute, our brains are bombarded with tens of millions of pieces of information. Literally, tens of millions. From our emotions to noticing the feelings of those around us, to scanning for safety, and observing what is going on around us, it is constant. Obviously, we can not consciously process so much information. It's too much, even attempting to process it all would overwhelm our neurons and brains. So, how do we...
6 months ago • 5 min read