Coachability is a collection of skills we cultivate over time. It’s the practiced habit of seeking, receiving, processing, and applying feedback to improve. Improved coachability boosts performance, builds trust, and deepens connections — for athletes, teams, and the coaches who guide them.
Coaching Coachablity: a workshop for coaches
Coaches can improve athletes’ abilities to seek, receive, process, comprehend, retain, and execute coaching. To do so, coaches must Coach Coachability.
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In this interactive workshop, coaches will:
- identify critical traits they value in highly coachable athletes;
- identify their own strengths and weaknesses that inspire coachability traits in athletes;
- recognize communicating coachability to athletes as essential to success;
- reconnect with their desire to improve the individuals they coach as people and as athletes.
After this workshop, coaches will:
- understand how coaching coachability will improve individual and team performance and culture;
- have a methodology for identifying critical coachability traits;
- identify one current drill/session that already impacts a critical coachability trait;
- identify one current drill/session that can be altered to explicitly impact a critical coachability trait;
- feel empowered to communicate directly with athletes about coaching coachability;
- have a methodology for applying the workshop technique to the rest of their coaching.
Cultivating Coachability: a workshop for athletes
Athletes can improve their ability to seek, trust, process, refine, and implement the coaching they receive. To do so, athletes must cultivate personal and team coachability.
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In this interactive workshop, athletes will:
- identify critical traits of highly coachable athletes;
- identify critical traits of highly coachable teams;
- identify coachability traits most critical to them;
- assess their individual growth potential in each critical coachability trait;
- develop one specific method to improve a critical coachability trait.
After this workshop, athletes will:
- recognize the benefit of cultivating their own coachability;
- know their individual critical coachability traits;
- understand their growth potential for multiple coachability traits;
- have a methodology for intentionally improving all critical coachability traits;
- feel empowered to communicate directly with coaches about cultivating coachability.
Coachability is a skill set you can grow — turning feedback into progress. Practice it, and watch performance soar, relationships deepen, and teams connect.
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Jeff Blanchard is the Donald L. Wilson Professor of Leadership and Enterprise and Professor of Mathematics at Grinnell College. A former U.S. Army officer and current entrepreneur, Jeff has a long history of leading, teaching, coaching, and mentoring with a wide range of people. In addition to directing the Wilson Center for Innovation and Leadership, Jeff is a lifelong soccer official having officiated from youth to semi-professional levels including all divisions of NCAA, NAIA, and NJCAA. Jeff has coached at the youth level from U6 to U19 in soccer, basketball, and Olympic style Taekwondo. Jeff is passionate about helping athletes, teams, and coaches cultivate their coachability through the Coachability Workshop.