Rick McGuire & Amber Selking: Secrets to Becoming a Great Coach

with Rick McGuire,
Ph.D. University of Missouri;
University of Missouri Head Men's and Women's Track & Field Coach (1983- 2010);
Graduate Professor and Director of Sport Psychology (Missouri);
Founder and Director of the Missouri Institute for Positive Coaching;
Founder and former Chairman of the USA Track & Field Sport Psychology program;
founding member of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP) -AASP Fellow (2010);
USTFCCCA George Dales Award (2014);

and

Amber Selking,
Ph.D. Mental Performance Coach,
Founder, Selking Performance Group;
Director of People Performance for Lippert Companies, Inc.;
University of Notre Dame Football;
Adjunct Professor, Mendoza College of Business, Notre Dame;
Founded Notre Dame Christian Athletes (NDCA)

Every individual who enters the vocation of coaching sets out with great optimism and best intentions to become their very best and grow in tangible, substantive ways that will ultimately reinforce a solid foundation allowing their athletes to achieve personal and team successes in their athletic pursuits and longer term, in life. Often, coaches may not know where to begin or how to foster these goals and aspirations to grow as a coach with proven tactics and the skillset to help them achieve these goals. Drs. Rick McGuire and Amber Selking have dedicated their professional lives to helping coaches become the best that they can become; in this highly informative, valuable video session, the duo pass along their secrets on to you!

Backed with scientific research, McGuire, and Selking introduce the methods and practices that will help you develop into a great coach and subsequently, will greatly assist you to lead your athletes to success in sports and in life, long after their careers in sports conclude. In this must-see video for coaches of any sport, at any age and at all levels of competition, viewers will receive detailed information on topics like:

• Research based rationale for positive coaching.
• Ways to apply the science.
• Models and practices for focus and becoming your best (athlete and coach).

So much of our performance and for an athlete’s performance, depends on the way they think. Both Rick McGuire and Amber Selking show how to positively impact players and how to coach them on their thoughts and focus. They present foundations for positive coaching and how that looks on the field, pitch, court, track or diamond. 

Some may have the wrong idea about positive coaching, and mistakenly think that winning is not important – and they would be wrong in that assumption. Winning is critically important and McGuire explains why winning is important and the process and experience of winning applies to sports and life. Throughout the course of this video presentation McGuire and Selkin provide many tools that coaches can immediately apply to their own situation.

Viewers learn how being a positive influence in an athlete’s life will have future ramifications. McGuire and Selking present positive coaching systems in great detail and stress the importance of respecting the self-worth of every athlete – illustrating that the role of the coach is also the role of leader. The duo not only illustrate multiple theories in this video, but they also provide the science and research results to back them up.

Mental Toughness and The 5 Skills of Focus

The topic of mental toughness is discussed and terrific insight into how to prepare an athlete to perform under stress and pressure is presented at length. 

The ‘Five Skills of Focus’ are then explained, including how each one directly impacts an athlete’s performance. Focus is part of the pyramid of mental toughness. Each level is explained so that each coach watching this video can start to mold the information provided and fit it to their own situation and personality.

Become a great coach now! This video is more valuable than the x’s and o’s – it shows viewers HOW to coach. It provides critical guidance and insightful answers to the question of, ‘How do I become a great coach?’ 

127 minutes. 2022.