The Art of Team Coaching

The Art of Team Coaching offers real insight into what it takes to create a successful team. Author Jim Hinkson has mined his 30 years of team coaching experience to create a handbook that will be invaluable to every coach, whether beginner or veteran.

The Art of Team Coaching ranges over all aspects of coaching. Hinkson offers practical advice for such tasks as choosing players, organizing for the long term, and running practice sessions and team meetings. He offers inspiring approaches to the vital skills of motivation, discipline, and communication. Finally, Hinkson shows what coaches can do to develop their own abilities to achieve excellence.

The Art of Team Coaching focuses on the coaching of team sports, particularly those that involve rapid movement up and down the playing field such as soccer, hockey, basketball and lacrosse. But anyone set the task of organizing and motivating others to achieve a common purpose will find helpful tips that they will be able to put to work right away.

Jim recognizes that most coaches don`t want to wade through lengthy theoretical discussions. He has written the book in such a way that it can be read cover to cover or dipped into periodically according to the reader`s needs. Either way, The Art of Team Coaching gets to the point quickly and clearly.

Jim Hinkson`s love and enthusiasm for coaching comes through on every page. The Art of Team Coaching is a reference book that will be returned to again and again, as coaches encounter new problems and challenges, or when they simply need to renew their passion for coaching.