Creating a Winning Culture: Helping Your Team Realize its Identity, Duty, and Destiny

Coach Ty’s strategies have been utilized by a U.S. Olympic gold medal winner, college athletic programs, and elite high school athletes from around the world. In this session, attendees will learn how to get and maintain the edge in competition. Coach Ty has developed keys for helping people achieve and maintain high levels of success.

Attendees will learn:

• Ways to achieve clarity about self identity and vision for the future.
• Skills for making conscious choices to remain in alignment with personal goals.
• Strategies that help one commit to character building choices that result in integrity, self respect and pride.
• Tips that promote continual growth and development that will lead to renewed focus and maximum performance.

It’s not about coaching; it’s about creating a winning culture that yields lasting success.”
Coach Ty

From Maverick to Magnificent: A Leadership Development Program

Recent college graduates, Calvin Jonson and Myron Rolle, had tremendous success in college on and off the playing field. Johnson received a patent for an invention he created prior to graduating from Georgia Tech and Rolle earned a Rhodes scholarship as a result of his stellar academic career at Florida State University.

Athletes, coaches, or parents of athletes will learn the skills that separate those who merely participate in their lives to those who are high performers in all phases of their lives. The Maverick to Magnificence Program is a program that focuses on the talents that each individual possesses.

Attendees engage in:

• Discovery of their talents.
• Mastery of the application of their talent.
• Creation of opportunities to align their talent with their purpose.
• Exploration of how to use academic and athletic experiences for career and leadership development.
• Strategizing for successful transition to life after the end of the high school or college athletic career.

Strategy is the rudder that guides the ship to its destiny.”
Coach Ty

Parents as Allies: Creating useful connections with parents of student athletes

Few people are aware that Indiana University (IU) missed out on a once in a lifetime opportunity. A young Larry Bird started his college career at Indiana University, yet he transferred to Indiana State University where he laid the foundation for what allowed him to become one of the top 50 NBA players of all time. IU failed to recognize the importance of developing rapport with Larry Bird’s parents.

Learning strategies to maintain a winning relationship with parents can help coaches get the most out of their athletes’ potential and avoid the loss of impact or potential impact players. This course teaches coaches how to be on the winning side of relationships with parents.

Attendees will learn:

• Eight methods to establish a parent’s trust and support for the program and coaching staff.
• How to educate parents about the culture of the school and program.
• Strategies for teaching parents how to safeguard their student athlete from distraction when they are at home during breaks.
• Ways to encourage parent clubs designed to support the athletic program.

“Relationships are the building blocks to winning.”Coach Ty 

Avoiding Choices that Destroy: Eliminating NCAA Rule Infractions

Some student athletes get blinded by the limelight. Unfortunately, many confuse the limelight with that of the light of a freight train racing toward them from a distance. Some student athletes mistake bad ideas for good ideas which can compromise the potential of the student athlete and the team and program with which they are affiliated. This session will help the student athlete resist internal and external triggers which may cause poor decisions that lead to disastrous outcomes.

Attendees will learn:

• The 10 most common NCAA rule infractions and how to avoid them.
• Ways to recognize and respond to unscrupulous behavior and enticements from boosters, agents, and groupies.
• Strategies for getting needs and some wants fulfilled without committing an NCAA rule infraction.

If it looks too good to be true, it’s neither good nor true.”
Coach Ty