Table of Contents

Foreword from The Art of Motivation for Sports
Jack Armstrong
Preface
Acknowledgments

PART I: Motivating Through Leadership
1. What It Takes to Be a Successful Motivating Coach
2. Motivating through Your Coaching Philosophy
3. Using Your Own Coaching Style and Personality to Motivate
4. Motivating by Making Good Decisions and Team Selections
5. Increasing Your Knowledge of Coaching to Help Motivate

PART II: Motivating Through Setting Goals and Team Rules
6. The Art of Motivation
7. Motivating by Sharing Power in Team Meetings
8. Motivating through Setting the Team’s Season Outcome Goal
9. Motivating through Setting the Team’s Performance Goals
10. Motivating through Setting the Team’s Behavior Goals
11. Team Cohesion Goals to Motivate and Build Team Unity
12. Motivating through the Team’s Value Goals
13. Discipline and Enforcing Team Rules

PART III: Motivating Through Planning and Teaching Strategies
14. Organizing, Preparing, and Planning the Season
15. Motivating through the Teaching of Fundamentals
16. Motivating by Running a Good Practice
17. Motivating with a Quality Playing System

PART IV: Motivating by Working with Individual Players
18. Motivating through Communication with Your Players
19. Motivating by Building Relationships
20. Motivating by Building Self-Esteem
21. Selecting and Creating Team Leaders

PART V: Motivating Through Pre- and Post-Game Speeches and Game Coaching
22. The Motivational Game Plan and Pregame Speech
23. Presentation of Postgame Speeches
24. Motivating through Game Coaching

Appendix: Sayings for Pregame Speeches
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the Author

Jim Hinkson has been a teacher and basketball coach for 38 years in the Toronto District School Board. He has been involved in lacrosse for forty years as a player, a coach, and an author. Hinkson played lacrosse professionally for the National Lacrosse League (NLL) and played for Canada in the World Field Lacrosse Championship. He has not only coached at every level in lacrosse—from junior up to professional—he also ran one of the most successful high school basketball programs in Toronto. Hinkson is the author of Box Lacrosse (1974), Lacrosse Fundamentals (1993/2006), Lacrosse Team Strategies (1996/2006), The Art of Team Coaching (2001), Lacrosse for Dummies (2003/2009), and another book titled Lacrosse Fundamentals (2012). He has been inducted into the Oshawa Hall of Fame, the Whitby Hall of Fame, and the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame.

Reviews

From the foreword: Jim Hinkson’s comprehensive look at all the aspects of the profession is both detail-oriented and, more importantly, quite insightful. He provides wonderful food for thought for coaches of all ages and levels.
*Jack Armstrong, TV analyst for the Toronto Raptors of the NBA and former head coach of the Niagara University Purple Eagles*