STRENGTHS

I have noticed over the years that successful coaches develop their respective teams and individual players around strengths—not weaknesses.  Ordinary coaches primarily focus on weaknesses, performance gaps and negativities.  Empowering coaches, however, emphasize to their teams and players positive perceptions of giftedness, talent, ability and desire.  One of the great tragedies in the American classroom today is that there are young people who have never heard from the mouths of educators what strengths their lives possess and what demonstrations of greatness they have exhibited.    Every child has great ability and value within them!  Like coaches, educators must identify and communicate strengths, not weaknesses, to their students.