The Checkerboard Coaching Technique SM for NHL Ice Hockey Coaches
The Checkerboard Coaching Technique SM for NHL Ice Hockey Coaches
The Checkerboard Coaching Technique SM for NHL Ice Hockey Coaches
Daniel C. Bryndle Author
The CCT (Checkerboard Coaching Technique sm) has taken 32 years to develop and will take this short article to explain how to apply it to running backs in the NFL. It will optimize the performance of any running back that applies it.
We all know what a checkerboard is. To start take the imaginary board you have and fill each space with the portion of your game you want to improve or analyze. After your board is filled with as many spaces as you care to fill, chose the 20 percent of those items that are the most critical to your teams performance and place them in sequence from most important to least. Now take the most important or first on the list and ask yourself what is the most effective 20 percent aspect of your teamsperformance. Understand that area and expand it. Expand the opportunity to use it next in the game as you now recognize what it is.
I have one real life practical application from the NHL. As and NHL coach you need to win. Not next week, not near the end of the season, now and every day. Today's players are rich. They have agents. They have talent but the talent they have is sometimes lost in the money. Your job is to take that talent, forget the money, and help the team win. One player makes seven million. The player next to him in the locker room makes two million. You make one point five million if your are lucky. As a coach you need to help all of you realize it is about winning. Not the money.
Here is how you do it. Winning championships is what sport is all about. Not the money. Your job is to remove the money from the dressing room and say we are on a mission. All of us. The mission is to win the championship, just those of us in this room. We have the talent. You all are here because we know that. What we all need is a belief in the direction we are going. Here is how we believe.
The staff here will take the top twenty percent of your performance and we will utilize it in games. We will take what you do best and present the opportunity for you to show us all why you are here. Each of you will have the game plan we create to highlight your best features. Together with this plan we will win. We have this new Checkerboard Coaching Technique sm for each of you to participate in. You tell us what you do best and we will make sure you can use it in a game. We will customize our attack of those we play to highlight your talents both for you and the team.
All of us will be optimized our individual talents and we will win if this happens. Lets make it so.