E30 | Anthony Donskov: Thinking Deeper: Can You Teach It?

The Art Of Coaching

Brett Bartholomew

Health & Fitness, Business, Education

5 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2019

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Be sure to sign-up for a free sample and updates regarding my online course Bought In which goes live again August 27th. For the first few days we will be offering $100 off the total price. Go to https://courses.artofcoaching.com/ now to get the latest notifications sent to you! You can receive $20 off your 1st order of Momentous by using code BRETT20 at checkout. (Minimum purchase amount of $50). This information is kept free by our partnership with Momentous. To learn more about Momentous and what they do to help our community go to livemomentous.com/brett Reach Out To Coach Donskov: Twitter & Instagram: @Donskovsc Via Website: https://www.donskovsc.com/ On this episode of The Art Of Coaching Podcast, we are joined by founder and head performance coach at Donskov Strength and Conditioning, Anthony Donskov. Anthony has years of experience both as a player, Strength Coach and business owner. Donskov is a frequent contributor/writer for Michael Boyle's www.strengthcoach.com, the best source for performance enhancement information on the Internet, and has lectured for the NSCA and USA Hockey respectively. He continues to work with athletes of all levels including minor hockey, junior hockey, college hockey, NHL, and assisting with the USA Women's' National Hockey Team. Anthony's journey and background What inspired Anthony to pursue Doctoral route Forced complications of coaching methodologies and serial specialists Anthony's methods of athlete assessment. Directive approach vs. cooperative approach of coaching Holding the coaching veterans accountable vs. new coaches Using criticism to build knowledge Being a criticizer vs. contributor Knowing if what you're doing is working or not in coaching What does Anthony see as a successful interaction? Evaluating coaching Identifying the right type of strength coach to hire Anthony's advice on coaches seeking job opportunities What is the next step for strength and conditioning as a community?

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0:00.0	What really separates good coaches from great coaches?
0:04.8	Tell me if any of these coaching struggles sound familiar to you.
0:08.0	You have athletes who are influenced by social media fads and inevitably want to do things
0:12.1	that look cool even though they have little to no efficacy behind them.
0:16.0	You have sport coaches with little to no background in training who demand you do things the
0:21.7	way they've always done it.
0:23.2	Within an organization and outside, just because
0:25.3	maybe they had success with it in the past, and so they cut your wings out from under
0:29.0	you as a coach. The parents of the athletes you coach always want to interject until you
0:34.0	exactly what they think you should be doing because this worked for no one Ryan or Walter
0:38.7	Peyton or somebody else. You have athletes just going through the motions and giving up
0:44.2	when things get tough.
0:45.6	They kind of plot through an auto pilot, they do the bare minimum, and you know, they
0:49.9	always kind of complain that something isn't sport-specific enough or just isn't engaging
0:54.1	enough.
0:55.1	Now, let me be clear.
0:57.1	Every single coach runs into problems like this and if you haven't yet, you will inevitably
1:00.7	and this isn't just coach- specific, this may be a manager, this, I mean, a transcense field because at the end of the day we are people that have egos and agendas
1:07.8	of their own. But the way that we respond to these situations or the way we stop them
1:12.9	from happening in the first place is ultimately part of what separates good coaches from great
1:17.9	coaches. In other words, it's not just the communication side, it's also negotiation,
1:23.0	it's also the ability to listen, it's also the ability to adapt and create and find this middle ground. You can have the highest level
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