The modern lexicon of coaching includes terms like transformational and transactional to describe the approaches coaches use. What are their characteristics? In minor hockey, can someone be both? Dean Holden delves into this topic, aided and abetted by host Richard Bercuson who tosses out questions and examples to investigate.

Toward Understanding Youth Athletes’ Fun Priorities: An Investigation of Sex, Age, and Levels of Play: Amanda Visek, Heather Mannix et al

https://activeforlife.com/why-every-coach-needs-a-coaching-philosophy/

Contact:
richard(at)grassrootsminorhockey.com
Twitter:
Richard - @berky544

Dean Holden: funlearnreturn@gmail.com

Greg Revak, an Ohio-based coach and USA Hockey coach developer, has unique and progressive ideas on coaching the game. His podcast and newsletter hit on various topics which are pertinent to coaches at every level. In this episode, he shares with Richard his personal bugaboos and annoyances about practice design and what we can do better.

His website: https://hockeysarsenal.substack.com/
The HockeyIQ Podcast: https://hockeysarsenal.com/podcast

Contact:
richard(at)grassrootsminorhockey.com
Twitter:
Richard - @berky544

Dean Holden: funlearnreturn@gmail.com

However you define "new," Richard and Dean discuss what coaches need to consider at the start of a new adventure and the resources they should access.

Books:
How we learn to move by Rob Gray
The Coach's Guide to Teaching by Doug Lemov
Transforming Basketball by Alex Sarama
The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever by Michael Bungay Stanier

Podcasts:
This one, of course!
The Talent Equation - Stuart Armstrong
The Perception-Action Podcast - Rob Gray
HEO Youtube channel - Brian Gillam (Hockey Eastern Ontario

Web sites:
hockeycoachingabcs.com - Tom Molloy
admkids.com - USA Hockey

Contact:
richard(at)grassrootsminorhockey.com
Twitter:
Richard - @berky544

Dean Holden: funlearnreturn@gmail.com