Week 2 – Assignment: Living in the Sweet Spot

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Instructions
There are practical ideas to achieve and sustain high levels of performance from the athletes you lead. How would you incorporate these ideas into your coaching style? Search the literature written about successful coaches and how they have incorporated these strategies into their philosophies.

Select three coaches who you believe to be successful leaders of athletes. Write a paper in which you describe how techniques to achieve and sustain high levels of athlete performance are utilized in practice by each of the three coaches selected. Based on a coaches perspective, what personal changes in motivation will you take from the reading?

Length: 5-7 pages
References: A minimum of 3 scholarly resources

Your paper should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards.