Teaches Values-Driven Leadership

Coach K

Coach K Teaches Values-Driven Leadership

Legendary coach Mike Krzyzewski—best known as Coach K—teaches values-driven leadership. With five national championships and three olympic gold medals, the winningest coach in NCAA history helps you develop a personalized path to success.

1. Coach K Teaches Values-Driven Leadership

Define the core principles of your organization: Learn how Coach K aligned his personal objectives with those of his teams through an impromptu “values meeting.”

2. Define Your Core Values

Define Your Core Values

Coach K shares how to develop team culture by building trust and setting standards—not rules. Create collective responsibility for every member of your team to work toward a common goal.

3. Cultivate a Winning Team Culture

Cultivate a Winning Team Culture

Coach K takes a time-out with one of his former captains, NBA champion Shane Battier, to discuss the qualities of the Duke basketball team and Team USA that contributed to their success.

4. Time-Out: Own Your Team Culture

Time-Out: Own Your Team Culture

Learn what legendary Coach Bobby Knight called the “motion offense” by making game-time decisions on and off the court.

5. Making Reads: Adapt to the Situation

Making Reads: Adapt to the Situation

Hear Coach K’s experience working with Kevin Durant on using body language as a powerful form of nonverbal communication.

6. Read Your People: Body Language & Nonverbal Communication

Read Your People: Body Language & Nonverbal Communication

In this lesson, Coach K and Shane Battier discuss the process of making the critical decisions that led their team to the national championship.

7. Time-Out: The Ultimate Motion Offense

Time-Out: The Ultimate Motion Offense

In this lesson, Coach K breaks down the elements of effective communication, including ways to maximize messaging and run an effective meeting.

8. Teams Fail Without Effective Communication

Teams Fail Without Effective Communication

Learn when it’s appropriate to use emotions—and when it’s not. In this lesson, Coach K introduces the concept of “next play” and how it motivated Duke players to keep moving forward.

9. Leading With Emotion

Leading With Emotion

Taking leadership lessons from the court to the conference room, Coach K and Shane Battier discuss how to navigate moments of transition in your life and career.

10. Time-Out: Planning Your Next Play

Time-Out: Planning Your Next Play

Coach K shares his approach to recruitment and retention for the Duke basketball organization. Learn how to appeal to candidates by considering their priorities as whole people.

11. Recruit & Retain All-Star Talent

Recruit & Retain All-Star Talent

Learn how to improve the skills of the best people on your team and inspire them to become even better. With individual growth opportunities, self-critique, and humility, your team can achieve collective improvement.

12. Improve Individual Performance

Improve Individual Performance

In this lesson, learn how to give feedback and recognition, and navigate difficult conversations that can determine the success of your team.

13. Give Feedback

Give Feedback

Establish a tiered approach to your organization’s structure that supports early leaders and accommodates upward mobility.

14. Develop Emerging Leaders

Develop Emerging Leaders

Coach K reflects on the environment that gave Shane Battier the confidence to step up as a leader of the Duke basketball team.

15. Time-Out: Create a Legacy of Leadership

Time-Out: Create a Legacy of Leadership

Learn how to use tone, time, place, and emotion to elevate your team’s performance. Coach K shares his memory of preparing Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, and the other members of Team USA to compete at the 2008 Olympic games.

16. Make a Habit of Motivation

Make a Habit of Motivation

Seize the moment. In this final lesson, Coach K shares how suffering a loss can teach you more than getting a win.

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