The guest on today’s episode of the USA Football Coach and Coordinator podcast is Bo Hanson, former Olympic rower and director of Athlete Assessments, a company that seeks to help teams and organizations improve performance through behavior profiling. Hanson discusses why all coaches in Australia need to be certified, the importance of accountability mechanisms and why the coach-player relationship is a two-way street.

Show notes

• 1:21   Developing as a coach in Australia
• 4:08  Why athletes in Australia need to be especially well coached
• 5:51   It’s not about minimizing negative impact of coaches, but maximizing positive
• 7:00  Appreciating the benefits of being a "learning coach"
• 7:55   The role of technology in shaping modern coaching
• 10:01  Today's athletes vs. athletes of previous generations 
• 13:40  Coaching Millennials
• 17:14   With coach-player communication, it's the little things
• 18:46   Hallmarks of championship-caliber programs
• 20:58   Accountability mechanisms
• 24:10   "Performance through people"
• 26:20   Discretionary effort
• 28:08   The environment that coaches create drives the behavior that athletes display
• 29:32   Improving coach-athlete relationship (and why reciprocity matters)
• 32:57   Off-the-field rapport
• 34:57   Finding the winning edge

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