All great championship teams have a oneness of unity and purpose, as well as sound leadership throughout the ranks. Lynch begins by showing how to identify qualities of true leaders. Athletes are challenged to choose two qualities that they can demonstrate as a leader. He then guides the athletes through a 3-minute deep breathing exercise, visualizing these leadership qualities and repeating positive affirmations about their ability to lead. Every single athlete achieves more with a strong sense of team. Through a series of activities Lynch shows athletes how to increase team unity and cohesion and how to unify the team with common goals and purpose. He also focuses on behaviors that need to be eliminated to enhance team unity.

92 minutes. 2007.

In the initial volume of Coach's Guide to Team Building, Dale shared the framework and the necessary building blocks for successful team building. In Coach's Guide to Team Building, Volume II, Dale takes the next logical step by sharing several team building activities and showing how to implement team building activities into your program. Dale emphasizes the skills utilized during effectively-planned team building activities - teamwork, communication, and trust - all of which are critical in the development and growth of your team. Using several different Duke University teams as demonstrators, Dale facilitates eight team building activities; each time, Dale shares the rationalization for the activity, facilitates the activity, and then leads a post-"team building activity discussion," allowing the athletes to share what they learned - about themselves, and their team, while drawing parallels from the activity itself with team dynamics. This highly informative and entertaining team building presentation will assist you in building a cohesive and unified team!

63 minutes. 2005.

In this informative and entertaining video, DeBoer shares with you valuable information regarding the differences in response to competitive situations between male and female athletes. She draws upon her vast experiences as an athlete, coach, athletics administrative fundraiser, and as an informed observer of gender response situations in athletics today. She identifies "Five Gender-Related Differences that Influence Males and Females in Competition":

• 1) Different Rewards and Penalties for Competitive Success
• 2) Different Responses to Feedback
• 3) Different Definitions of Fun
• 4) Different Interpretations of Failure
• 5) Different Responses to Authority

56 minutes. 2002.

In this enlightening Five-Section video, DeBoer takes you through a lesson in gender response as it pertains to practice situations. She purposefully generalizes behavioral characteristics of both men/boys and women/girls to help illustrate her points.

• Section 1: Effective Motivation; Trigger positive results in both males and females by motivating them "in their language."
• Section 2: Acceptance, Performance, and Struggle; pertinent issues that relate to peer acceptance, leadership development, and motivational strategies to prepare an athlete for a focused battle.
• Section 3: Action vs. Interaction; recommendations for structuring practices to achieve a balance between drills that develop skills and those that teach competitiveness.
• Section 4: Responsibility; stages that males and females go through before they are prepared mentally and socially to take responsibility for their own skill execution and competitive results.
• Section 5: Comfortableness vs. Edginess; understand how to cycle your athletes into and out of high pressure situations in practice to better prepare them for competition.

48 minutes. 2002.

In The Coach's Guide to Team Building, Dr. Greg Dale shares the framework and the necessary building blocks for successful team building. His philosophy is that successful team building is a year round process, naturally occurring as three distinctive seasons: "Pre-Season," "In Season" and "Off-Season." The "Pre Season" section shares strategies and creative ideas for implementing experiential (group problem solving) activities, evaluating and molding team culture, team roles, developing pride in a team's sub-units, and understanding the stages of team building. During "In-Season," Dale stresses the importance of ongoing communication with team leaders, the benefits of sharing team ownership with your team, and strategies for an effective and honest "open door" policy with athletes. He also shares the value of implementing "positive confrontation" situations among team members, along with the importance of planning experiential activities outside of the sport. The "Post-Season" section offers tips for continuity through ongoing communication with team members.

42 minutes. 2003.