Coach Speak Series | Preparation

Essential Coaching
2 min readNov 28, 2022

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#ecRACAchat

Q1: Reflection

Coachspeak. We all use it, and we all loathe it.

Tonight: “Preparation.”

Things like “failing to prepare is preparing to fail,” or, “game prep” come to mind.

Let’s talk about that.

Use A1 & #ecRACAchat in your answers.

Q2: Awareness

You prepare the way you may have been taught or adopted from someone else.

Players are playing, you are not. Evaluate the prep and who it is for.

Use A2 & #ecRACAchat in your answers.

Q3: Clarity

Do they know how to answer this question?

Have you asked for an honest response?

Prepared to do what, exactly?

Use A3 & #ecRACAchat in your answers.

Q4: Alignment

If you’re “in it for the players,” then A3 should be a guide for adjusting A1 and A2…right?

If we’re going to be about it, let’s be about it.

Use A4 & #ecRACAchat in your answers.

Q5: Congruence

Congruence = success.

Being able to assess, accurately and truthfully, your progress and your team’s progress has major stakes associated with it, especially in this case!

Use A5 & #ecRACAchat in your answers.

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