How to Develop Relentless Competitors

Looking to transform your passive, wimpy, and entitled athletes into focused and fierce Competitors? How to Develop Relentless Competitors shows you how to systematically develop the competitive edge with your athletes. You'll learn the inside strategies that sport's top coaches use to train and develop their athletes into relentless Competitors. You'll also learn how to create your own Competitive Cauldron to develop your athletes into fierce and focused Competitors. The book is divided into two sections: Understanding Competitiveness and Coaching Your Athletes to be More Competitive. The first section provides coaches with a complete understanding of the inner workings of Competitors. It includes chapters on: The 20 Characteristics of Competitors, Can Competitors Really be Developed?, The Competitiveness Continuum, The 11 Obstacles that Inhibit Competitiveness, Are There Gender Differences in Competitiveness?, The Origin, Evolution, and Instincts of Competitors, Competitiveness: Is it Nature, Nurture, or Both?, The Psychology of Competitors, The 12 Potential Pitfalls of Competitors and How to Overcome Them. The second section on Coaching Your Athletes to be More Competitive provides coaches with a 5-Phase process for teaching athletes exactly how to compete. Chapters include: Competitiveness is Like Missile Strikes, The 5 Phases of the Competitive Response, 20 Competitive Concepts to Use with Your Team, How to Create Your Own Competitive Cauldron. All in all, the book gives coaches a comprehensive resource to develop their athletes into focused and fierce Competitors. A separate, companion drillbook called the Develop Relentless Competitors Drillbook complements this resource by providing coaches with 75 practical drills that coaches can use to develop competitiveness in their practices.

Widely considered the world's top expert on sports leadership, Jeff Janssen, M.S. helps coaches and athletes become world-class leaders in athletics, academics, and life. He is the chief architect of comprehensive and cutting edge Leadership Academies for college athletic departments at North Carolina, Michigan, Notre Dame, Illinois, Pitt, Georgetown, Arkansas, Baylor, Lehigh, Colgate, and Houston.
A prolific writer, Janssen is the author of several books, articles, videos, and websites on peak performance, team building, and leadership. His groundbreaking books How to Develop Relentless Competitors, The Team Captain's Leadership Manual, Championship Team Building, The Seven Secrets of Successful Coaches, The Mental Makings of Champions, and the Peak Performance Playbook have received rave reviews from coaches around the world.