Bring Ryan in to speak to YOUR Association!

I recently developed an association-wide program for a Minor Hockey Association in Chicago that works for any association across any sport.

At noon we met with Association coaches to explore and brainstorm issues and current hot topics, creating solutions for:

	how to get your team off to a great start (the first team/parent meeting)
	how to deal with over-zealous parents
	how to create your team's code of honor
	how to keep your players hungry
	how to grow your team's leaders

I then spent 2 hours in the evening with coaches, parents and players, telling them stories to interactively illustrate the following principles:

	what it means to be hungry
	how parents and coaches can keep their players hungry and focused
	understanding the importance of creating a team vision
	how our belief creates our reality
	how to prioritize
	how deflecting the glory builds our teams
	understanding how honoring our teammates creates the team we want
	exploring communication
	creating a plan to stay hungry

Many of the participants purchased SIMPLY THE BEST and OFF THE BENCH. These two books highlight the principles that we explored during our session.

This particular association is contracting me to return to deliver 3 specific sessions to start off their next season:

1. An association-wide COACH development program
2. An association-wide PLAYER development program
3. An association-wide PARENT development program

Each of these ongoing initiatives will deal with future vision as well as existing issues, and establish specific solutions around which the association can create accountability. The PARENT development program, for example, will deal with issues like:

	How to create a dynamic atmosphere for our athlete
	Coach/Parent communication
	Exploring common language
	Supporting the team culture (through Affirmation, Confrontation and Demonstration)
	How developing a team Code-of-Honour gets our whole team on the same page
	Understanding, and supporting, that skill and character development is the number 1 focus

Coaches, players and parents are the main stakeholders in all sports associations and these programs are designed to harness each group's energy and focus them towards their common goals. These programs give your association a huge head start!

"I have spent the past 40 years involved with coaches, players, parents and associations. I am passionate about helping associations and their stakeholders create and sustain a hungry environment where players can establish amazing memories and develop a solid skill/character, HUNGRY spirit base from which to live the rest of their lives."

Ryan Walter