Championship Wisdom: Secret Lessons in Coaching the Relationship Game for Cohesive, Winning Cultures

In this video you will learn from master culture changer, Dr. Jerry Lynch, on his work and experience in creating connections and building a championship culture in an athletic program.

Feelings Equals Function

With over 40 years of learning about athletic program cultures and helping coaches bring out the best in their players, Dr. Lynch has established that the most important element in your program is discovering methods for tapping into the feelings of everyone involved and providing them with a meaningful sense of value.

Dr. Lynch explains that helping your players understand that feeling valued and appreciated leads to getting the best out of yourself, and describes why it plays a critical role in developing a vision for your program and a value-based team culture. 

5 Connections 

Dr. Lynch uses what he calls ‘Jack-ronyms’ to help describe his 5 principles to creating life-long connections with your players. Starting with COME GIVE, you will learn strategies on how to be caring, open, mindful, enthusiastic, genuine, inspiring, vulnerable, and empowering to your athletes. Dr. Lynch explains why these values have been the basis for building connections with his players. Having the ability to check in and show that you care and love your players will open their hearts and show them how much you value them as an individual rather than a means to winning a game.  

The renowned team-building expert explains that by showing love, it gives you the ability to ask important questions to your players and, in turn, get real answers and feedback from them. Doing so, validates that you value them and that you feel they are important to your program. These connection pieces set the stage for great things to happen in your program and develop lifelong relationships. 

Being valued and loved is how you create a championship culture throughout an athletic program. When you look at the great teams in all sports, you’ll often find that the coaching staff has created a culture of value and respect. Players and coaches feel they can trust each other because they know how much everyone cares about them.Dr. Jerry Lynch uses his 40 years of experience to teach you HOW to care about your players and build that championship program by starting with love as the foundation. This is an incredible video for all people in any area of life/in any relationship situation - but is particularly critical and important for coaches!

Coach Rating: 5 out of 5 stars. ‘This is an outstanding video if you are looking to turn around a culture and build lifelong relationships with your players – which is a must for any coach. After all, this is the reason why we coach!’

61 minutes. 2023.