InSideOut Coaching
How Sports Can Transform Lives
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June 6, 2011
In this uplifting coaching manual, Ehrmann, a former Baltimore Colts football player and motivational speaker, promises to transform youthful existence from hormonal mayhem to potential and purpose. He explains how a childhood trauma of molestation warped him into a raging, unpredictable teen and young man whose life was salvaged by three sports coaches guiding and mentoring him away from the field.His philosophy of "InSideOut" coaching draws upon this trio's development of their young charges with communication and discipline, affirmation, and self-confidence, assuring their success after their playing days. While nothing is original or groundbreaking, Ehrmann's guidebook is full of wise, practical words that should replace the old "winning at all cost" adage.
August 1, 2011
A retired football player makes the case for a kinder, gentler approach to coaching.
Who would have thought that Ehrmann (co-founder, Coach for America), the bruising defensive tackle who once played for the Baltimore Colts, would decades later offer a heartfelt template for coaches to be more compassionate leaders? After all, it was the author, an admitted drug abuser while he played, who once said he wanted to knock Jets quarterback Joe Namath's head clear off his shoulder pads. "I...was not trying to be entertaining. I meant it. I thought that way and I played that way," he writes. But inside the brute beat a heart of gold waiting to be psychoanalyzed. After his brother died of cancer, Ehrmann began to unlock his own narrative, understanding his motivations, and in turn those of so-called "transactional" coaches, who engage with players solely to win games or secure inflated contracts for themselves. That approach is antithetical to the author's "InSideOut" paradigm. "Being an InSideOUt coach," he writes, "means turning my struggles, errors, and misfortunes into lessons that will make me a coach who instills a sense of community; is a better classroom leader; is a clearer and more empathetic communicator; is an advocate of healthy and constructive competition; and is a mentor who turns sports into a ceremony of celebration for young people."
In the age celebrity coaches and a revolving door for "student athletes" who never graduate but bring in millions to their universities, it's a downright revolutionary message. Ehrmann delivers it with candor and courage.
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March 15, 2011
"The most important coach of the year" (Parade), named "Man of the Year" by the Baltimore Colts, the Frederick Douglass Society, and the National Fatherhood Initiative, and subject of Jeffrey Marx's best-selling Season of Life, Ehrmann tells coaches how athletics can make young men and women better, more responsible people. A no-brainer wherever sports are strong.
Copyright 2011 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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