Every Moment Matters: How the World's Best Coaches Inspire Their Athletes and Build Championship Teams Paperback – December 8, 2019

This book is a must read for any coach!! Highly recommended!!

A brilliant guide for coaches who want to understand the ins and outs of coaching a team and getting the best out of their athletes. It starts with the questions of why someone gets into coaching, forces some introspection and setting of expectations, followed by how to coach effectively and how to create a strong impact on your athletes and teams. Chapter after chapter contains highly practical wisdom that you can incorporate into your coaching routine. The beautiful thing about this book is that it needn't just apply to sports - even business leaders or people managers can get a lot out of this book by learning to communicate optimally, developing good empathy and rapport with your team and developing a good team culture. John prescribes a long term approach that sacrifices immediate gains for the long term benefit of the athlete, and draws the focus away from results to the overall benefit a good coach can bring to his team. This is a brilliant book that every aspiring coach, leader should read early on in their career.

I gave this to a dear friend who was a great athlete and high school coach. He was honored at the high school he graduated from and went on to coach there after college. He was loved and respected by everyone. I sent it as a gift and he liked it very much. I have given copies to others who also enjoyed.

I would recommend this to any coach who is looking to improve as a coach. Great insight into many great coaches and programs. My favorite part was the actions you could take after every chapter.

Purchased as a gift for a high school football coach. Therefore have no comments on content. But it arrived quickly and in excellent shape.

Every coach and leader should read this book

What would it be like if you talked to the world's greatest sports athletes, coaches, psychologists across professional, college, high school and youth levels and you took all their knowledge and expertise and distilled it into a book targeting coaches of all sports and all levels?THIS IS THAT BOOK!It's an easy read on so many levels and a hard read too - as a coach you stop and you realize where you're falling short but then straight away John gives you 3 or 4 ways how to make information from Pete Carroll, Steve Kerr, Anson Dorrance, Cindy Timchal, Mark Bennett etc. applicable to you, your teams and your situations. There's more enough advice and ideas to apply that you'll need 3-4 seasons to accommodate it all. Begin today! I've already changed my Spring plans on co-creating our culture with players and parents directly because of this.I originally got the electronic version and half way through I bought the hardcopy to give to the President of our youth soccer league. We need to get this out to our coaches. This is pure gold. Like I said it's not an easy read but the hard truth never is.

Its a great book for new coaches starting out or veteran coaches. It makes you question how can coaches change your their coaching philosophy, vision, purpose and culture or if you starting out how to build and implement these concepts to reality. Backed up with stats and website and books to help further your journey into coaching.