In-Powered 101 Preview: Ted Lasso
Pushing vs. Meeting w/ an In-Powered Coach
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On the coaching side of life, Ted Lasso is the In-Powered Coach poster boy.
With coaches like Ted, players can go further, because you go together…
A coach who holds a remote for your shock collar in one hand can push you to ‘get better.’
The question is…
Is that enjoyable for the player?
And how far can you ‘push a player up this mountain’?
And when you coach the ‘old school’ way using force, do you climb with them?
The answers to the questions in order are:
No
Not far
No
Ted Lasso is a true teacher and being that, he also learns.
Co-teaching involves co-learning. And when you both offer something, you both receive something.
Ted gets better alongside his players. They go up the scale together.
A coach who uses force creates separation on this chart. A gap.
An In-Powered coach stays with the other person climbing together. They unite.
Allow me to explain…
The coach holding the zapper for the player’s shock collar remains at the 100 level as the player ‘improves’ their behavior.
2 things are happening that this coach might not be aware of:
The player is ‘improving their behavior’ only to avoid getting zapped
The coach is staying in fear as the player ‘gets better’ which creates a gap
In the course presentation, you saw the Ted Lasso clip where he helps Jamie get from the level of Apathy to Courage by meeting him at his level and climbing up with him.
The old-school coach who would have truly become angry and projected it wouldn’t have moved from his position on this chart.
If you want to go ‘further’ go together.
It’s not enough to get a player better.
Get players better and improve your relationship with them so it compounds over time.
The player scoring more goals isn’t a metric of good ‘coaching.’
How many wedding invites have you gotten?
How many players have recommended you for a job when they move up from the USHL to D1 to ‘pull you up’?
These are the new metrics of In-Powered Coaching.
If they don’t love you, nothing that you did truly matters…
You can only push them so far, but climbing together… There is no limit on how far you can go.
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