In today's edition of the Leader Manger Coach Podcast, Rob discusses a specific coach who has real key things to share. He is an American coach, and he is quoted as being the winningest most coach in men's college soccer history. He got a career winning percentage of 81%. He is Jay Martin. From the book, The Real Giants of Soccer Coaching by Josh Faga, Josh here talks about Jay Martin and how he is a successful coach. What is it that he does that creates winners.
Key Takeaways:
- Process-Oriented. Process over results. Focus on the life process, not an outcome. This is all about focusing on your own journey, focusing on the process, and not on the outcome. The outcome will take care of itself. You just have to be on the right path, enjoy what you are doing and let the outcome unfold. You need to focus on daily incremental improvements on a daily consistent basis. You're doing what you feel you need to do in your daily life while working towards your goal. It is about the relationships with the people around you and not the medal that hangs on your neck. Jay always focuses on the process because we do not have control over the results, but we have control over our own processes.
- Mental Toughness. Redefinition of the term “mental toughness” as being able to play at a consistent level all the time in practice and in a competitive environment. It's that mental control that allows you to maintain a consistent mindset so that you can perform at a consistent level whatever the circumstances. Jay worked hard on himself. He got educated and learned about football. It is how he put himself out there and how to hone his craft.
- Value of intrinsic motivation. Jay always asks what is important to his players on a weekly basis. He lets players tell him what is important to them and what they want to improve on. If they're not motivated, results will be poor at best. It is different when players are performing at what they are passionate about. Their focus and enthusiasm will be at a different level. Jay uses that to his advantage.
- Creation of values system. Jay asks what is valuable to you. He gives his team a less 50 to 100 values. They have to come up with their Top 10 values, then their Top 5. They will have a list of 10 values, and then they must be ranked. He uses that to guide the players through the season. Practising and focusing what is valuable to them, what's important to them. It is good to create a culture where everybody is committed to the values that are most important to them. Everybody is working on what is important to them for the good of the whole.
Best moments:
“The world will often not show a correlation between ability and success… The relationship between ability and success is not one that you can rely on.”
“Essentially, it is all about working on ourselves and doing what's important to us rather than chasing shadows on what the world perceives as success.”
“Kaizen of continuous improvement.”
“What you give is what you get.”
Valuable Resources:
Book: Real Giants of Soccer Coaching by Josh Faga
Book: Mastery by George Leonard
About the host:
Rob Ryles is a UEFA qualified coach with a League Managers Association qualification and a science and medicine background. He has worked in the football industry in Europe, USA and Africa; at International, Premiership, League, Non-league and grassroots levels with both World Cup and European Championship experience.
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