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Positive Coaching Alliance
SCLC coaches must have completed the PCA online course or attended a PCA workshop after 15 Jun 2009 to participate in games and practices. To take the online course, visit www.positivecoach.org/CertOnline.aspx. You will be required to pay for the course when you register. SCLC will reimburse your registration cost once you complete the course. Please click the 'Clinic/Workshop Schedule' tab on the left to see the schedule of PCA workshops. There is are no costs to attend a PCA workshop.
PCA Information
PCA's live group workshops provide the basis for a positive, character-building youth sports culture. Dynamic PCA-Certified Trainers -- most of whom have coached at the high school level or beyond -- facilitate interactive discussions that help you shape the environment you want for your youth athletes.
PCA’s core workshop trains Double-Goal Coaches, whose first goal is winning, and whose second, more-important goal is using sport to teach life lessons. Attendees learn how to improve athlete performance, while developing character through three principles:
- Redefine "Winner"
- Fill Emotional Tanks
- Honor the Game
Double-Goal Coach™: “Coaching for Winning and Life Lessons”
The workshop an online course begin by defining the Double-Goal Coach™ as one who strives to win and works to prepare his/her team to play at its highest level, and, at the same time, teaches life lessons (teamwork, dedication, bouncing back from mistakes, etc.) to his/her players. We explain that these are not mutually exclusive goals.
Various scenarios are presented that asks coaches they would handle this situation. This scenario leads us into the discussion of PCA’s themes.
Principle #1 - Honoring the Game
Honoring the Game goes to the ROOTS of the matter, where we all have to RESPECT the Rules, Opponents, Officials, Teammates and one’s Self. Coaches receive specific tools to help them introduce the concept of ROOTS to their players and parents.
Principle #2 - Redefining "Winner"
Here we talk about how the American culture is a Win-at-all-cost culture, and we have to work to shift our focus away from the scoreboard. What’s more important is a “Mastery” definition, where we care most about our players’ giving their maximum effort, continuing to learn and improve, and dealing well with mistakes when they happen. Again, we introduce specific tools (such as "flushing" mistakes, in which a coach makes the motion of flushing the toilet after a player makes a mistake, which symbolizes that the mistake is done and everybody’s moving on). Coaches can use these tools to Redefine Winner with their teams and parents.
Principle #3 - Filling the Emotional Tank
This theme talks about how players who have FULL emotional tanks will have more fun and perform better. The thought-provoking piece of this theme is that, according to research studies, coaches should achieve a 5:1 ratio of positives to negatives with their players to keep their tanks full! We talk about how coaches can use both verbal and non-verbal cues to attain this ratio in a meaningful way. We stress that coaches are still teaching when they are giving positive feedback, and we illustrate how they can effectively correct mistakes within the context of this 5:1 ratio.
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