The Ankor Blog

I had a recent conversation with a coach who was struggling with the performance of captains he had named at the beginning of his season. He was spending much of his time in conflict with his captains...

The definition of leadership seems to be so broad in popular literature, educational settings and “coach speak” that I often wonder if the word has lost its power. After all, if leadership stands for ...

     Phil Jackson fascinates me. Jackson won an unprecedented 11 championships at a time when the NBA was reaching its most competitive level and mentored (arguably) two of the top three players in ba...

 In my 4 years as a college lacrosse player, 5 years as a college lacrosse coach, and 6 years as head coach of a high school lacrosse team I have won multiple championships and developed hundreds of p...

The power of positive coaching: Feel-good lip service or the key to building intrinsic motivation?

Over the years I have poured over literature that speaks of the keys to coaching young athletes. Eac...

Simon Sinek performed the third most viewed Ted Talk in the world. The basis for his talk was his book called “Start With Why”. In a nutshell, the book says that humans are not moved to change their b...

Is there a benefit to playing sports outside of lacrosse? Or should children be put on the “fast track” earlier to get a leg up on the competition

This topic has received a lot of attention over the ...

The greatest culture book I have ever read is Legacy by James Kerr. Kerr goes deep into the heart of the greatest sports culture of all time, the New Zealand All Blacks, to study every detail of how t...

A past coach of mine loved to use a phrase which became the “brand” for many of the successful teams that he coached: “Freedom Through Discipline”. To me, this simple phrase has come to have two meani...