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Raleigh man coaching youth to succeed in life
Posted: July 8, 2012 at 2:12 am
Voices Raleigh man coaching youth to succeed in life
Published: 2012-07-06 18:25:00 Updated: 2012-07-06 20:07:54
Jul 6, 2012
Raleigh, N.C. It is an everyday moment at the Raleigh Boy's and Girl's club Ron Williams commanding the undivided attention of young people.
"You work with kids; give them guidance, explained Williams. (Be) there for them when they need you."
For decades, Williams has been there. He has been in the Raleigh community helping countless kids succeed in life and sports - there is no exact number and it would be pointless to try and guess one.
North Carolina Central University head basketball coach LeVelle Moton was one of those kids.
"I definitely wouldn't be here, Moton said. I'd be dead. Or incarcerated, just like a number of kids I grew up with."
Moton worked his way from the projects to become the conference player of the year at NC Central. Now he runs the program.
"It's young men like me who have grown through his guidance, Moton said. I have a platform now and can share his story."
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Youths graduating from ‘life coaching’ program
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Graduates of a program aimed at helping teens with their transition from foster care will get a new laptop computer today, thanks to the Orange Duffel Bag Foundation.
The 25 youths ages 15 to 19 will have completed a life coaching program through the nonprofit organization, which helps improve the outlook for young people who are in foster care.
The graduation is at noon at Macon State College. At the ceremony, each graduate will receive an orange duffel bag with a computer.
Sam Bracken, founder of the program, will be guest speaker at the graduation.
Bracken was homeless at age 15, but he earned a football scholarship to Georgia Tech and later became a successful executive.
He co-authored the book My Orange Duffel Bag: A Journey to Radical Change. His success story is a basis for the program.
Mike Daly, chairman of the foundations board of directors, said Macon was identified as an area with a high number of at-risk youths, so the foundation decided to hold classes there.
Daly said Macon residents supported the program overwhelmingly, so he hopes to hold more classes this fall.
We have been welcomed with open arms, he said.
The program encourages youths to discover and develop their passions and create a comprehensive life plan.
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Knights enjoying life at the Cattery
Posted: July 6, 2012 at 10:16 pm
Matthew Knights. Photo: Craig Abraham
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GEELONG VFL coach Matthew Knights appears to be coaching with renewed passion, with the dark days after being sacked from Essendon in 2010 well behind him.
Knights said yesterday he was enjoying the development role at the Cats and had no ambition to land another role elsewhere.
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"I'm very fortunate to be at a great club," he said. "The communication and direction with the match committee is fantastic with Chris [Scott]. I'm just really enjoying coaching the youth with Max Rooke and Paul Hood. It's just a great role to be able to work with young players.
"I'm only new in this role so I think you've just got to embrace it and have a real crack at it and really get in and work hard with the players and the coaches to form good relationships."
Knights said a top-up of experienced VFL heads over the pre-season has been the key to the team's stunning turnaround this season. It is on track to grab a top-four spot and win its first VFL flag since 2007. The Cats have beaten top side Port Melbourne, but has dropped games to Werribee and Casey above it.
"We've got a lot of first and second-year players, so for them to have guys like Troy Selwood
and Andrew McLean and Dom Gleeson, to mix with on a weekly basis and then on a weekend is fantastic," Knights said.
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A change of course led Woody Hamilton into coaching
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If not for having to take foreign language courses, Woody Hamilton's professional life would have been much different.
While a teenager at Jackson County High School (now Scottsboro), Hamilton was a sports correspondent for The Sentinel-Age (now The Daily Sentinel), and his byline appeared on a number of stories.
He loved sports writing, but when he arrived at the University of Alabama following his high school graduation, he had no interest in taking the foreign language classes required for a degree in journalism.
"I just wasn't going to do it," he said, "so I went into physical education."
It worked out for Hamilton, who went on to a long career as a teacher and coach. He began his love affair with sports particularly basketball at a young age when his father would take him to watch his cousins play. Hamilton, whose mother was a teacher, grew up in Macedonia and played the sport himself, but said he couldn't find a spot on the talent-loaded Jackson County teams of hall of fame coach Q.K. Carter in the early 1950s. "Anywhere else I'd have gone in the county I would've (played)," said the small-statured Hamilton.
Instead, he dove into the game from a sports writer's perspective. Carter allowed Hamilton to ride the bus with the team to road games, and in turn Hamilton began to learn the ins and outs of the sport even more.
And while he loved sports writing, he found he had a love for coaching. He served as the player/coach of his fraternity's intramural team at Alabama, with his fraternity's team enjoying a lot of success. After taking some time away from school, he returned and finished his degree. Then he began a teaching career that spanned five decades. He worked all of those in Jackson County and Walker County, Ga.
Hamilton taught and coached at six different schools in Jackson County, which included two stints at Skyline and North Sand Mountain. "I never was afraid of change," said Hamilton, who coached numerous junior high, junior varsity and varsity teams often during the same year during his career.
He began his career at Woodville before making the move to NSM and then Flat Rock. After teaching in Rossville, Ga., he returned to Jackson County as the head varsity boys basketball coach at Skyline from 1973-1976. He then went back to teach in Georgia. It was then that he was diagnosed with cancer that "nearly took me out of here." Following surgery in 1981, he recovered and returned to teaching and coaching in Jackson County. He was at Stevenson during the 1981-82 school year and then went to Bridgeport, where he spent the following years as an assistant coach to Bridgeport varsity boys coach Kenneth Storey.
"He and I coached against each other for a few years, when he was at Skyline and I at Bridgeport, and when he was at NSM and I was at Bridgeport," Storey said. "When time came for us to finally be on the same side of the court, we really connected, maintained a great working relationship. Woody had his coaching philosophy and I had mine. Together we worked on adapting bits and pieces of each other's. We learned from each other."
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In India, private coaching is $6.5-billion business
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New Delhi, July 5:
The rising middle class, the desire to stay ahead in the global economy, and the falling quality of mainstream education system mean that examination-oriented coaching classes have taken over the life of most school-going children in India and other countries.
According to the report Shadow Education: Private Supplementary Tutoring and Its Implications for Policy Makers in Asia, released by the Asian Development Bank, in India a whopping 60 per cent of primary school children and up to 83 per cent students in high schools receive private tutoring.
Shadow education is a widely used term for private tutoring, as it mimics the mainstream and modifies itself according to the conventional system.
Talking about the private coaching industry in India, the report said, Nationally, a 2008 market survey of companies offering coaching estimated the size of the sector at $6.4 billion and predicted an annual growth of 15 per cent over the subsequent four years.
The report notes that in 2007-08, students living in both rural and urban India paid an average of Rs 1,456-2,349 a year for private coaching classes.
The poverty line in the country is set at Rs 965 for the urban and Rs 781 for the rural citizen. The report added that according to a study conducted by the Pratichi Trust, established by noted Nobel Economist Amartya Sen, the increasing demand for private coaching is not only because of rising incomes, but also because of the belief that it is unavoidable.
The research notes that, 78 per cent parents now believe it is indeed unavoidable up from 62 per cent. For those who do not have arrangements for private tuition, 54 per cent indicate that they do not go for it mainly or only because they cannot afford the costs.
Noting that perceptions of inadequacies in mainstream schooling, where teachers often do not come for classes or complete the curriculum, are is a major reason for the growth of private tutoring, the report added, Sen noted that most of the content in the private tutorial classes could and should have been taught in the regular classes of the primary schools.
He added that private tutoring divides the student population into haves and have-nots; it makes teachers less responsible; it makes improvements in schooling arrangements more difficult since the more influential and better-placed families have less at stake in the quality of what is done in the schools.
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COACHING LIFE: Preparing for your first day at work
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Its summertime and many graduates are taking summer jobs for the first time or beginning their professional careers as interns or permanent staffers.
This can be a nerve-wracking time for many. Well, there is no need to be stressed about it if you know what to do. Of course you dont want to go the other extreme and be too casual in your preparation either. So here are some tips from my launch your career toolkit.
Get a good nights sleep. I know you can handle late nights partying and still bounce back because you are young and fit but with an important appointment, like your first day at work, go to bed early and rise early. You dont want to turn up for work with sleep in your face your boss will not find you cute.
There is always a dress code. You can do at least three things to be sure you are dressed appropriately for work.
(1) Reflect on how your interviewer was dressed and keep your attire in that general style.
(2) Watch a video on YouTube about how to dress for your first day and do keep it up for the rest of your career.
(3) Avoid anything that will be just perfect for the nightclub. Guys: wear your pants belted at the waist. Ladies: limit the cleavage.
Be punctual. This should be a no-brainer. Unfortunately, employers are intolerant of Bajan time, so do arrive at least 15 minutes early to settle yourself, especially if you have to take the bus. If you are driving to work, take a test drive and see how long it takes to get there, then double the time. Traffic is no excuse for tardiness even though many of us accept it as such.
Mindful communication. You have obviously made a good first impression, or you would not have been hired. But you are now meeting the rest of the staff for the first time, so pay attention to these three Ps.
Be polite. As you are introduced to your colleagues, speak in a light and friendly tone. Speak to everyone even if your chaperone is rushing you through. Avoid small talk and humour because people are not yet tuned in to your personality. You could rub people the wrong way. Wait until you have developed rapport.
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Coaching Youth Athletes: An Introduction to Effective Communication Techniques for Grassroots Coaches
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Most kids play some type of organized sport at some point in their childhood, but by age thirteen 70 percent of kids drop out of all youth sports. Why do so many kids quit sports? One major reason is the fact that their coaches made them feel incompetent and even worthless athletically through the communication and feedback they delivered to the players.
This phenomenon stems in part from the fact that too many youth sports coaches foolishly coach with the sole goal of winning, and in the process communicate to their players that winning is the only thing that matters. As a result of these coaching behaviors, many kids stop playing sports because it is no fun at all when the coach is pouring incessant criticism on the players after every mistake.
However, if more coaches used a gentler, corrective communication style and worked with the players interactively to help them develop, many of these kids would still be playing and some even excelling in sports. An in-depth look at what past research has shown concerning the most effective coaching techniques will help all coaches of youth athletes focus on using only the effective techniques in the future.
Coaches of youth athletes that communicate with players by fostering choice and by correcting rather than criticizing the players are more effective at developing the players and keeping them involved in sports than those who openly criticize the athletes and give strict, unyielding directions. This is because correction and fostering choice breeds more intrinsic motivation in the players, which in turn leads to more interest in continuing to play the sport. Moreover, undesirable coaching communication techniques, especially criticism, can even have long-term negative implications on the athletes both inside and outside of sports
At first glance the issue of communication between coaches and youth athletes may seem inconsequential, but upon closer review the true significance of the issue becomes clear. Since sports can serve as a venue where children develop friendships and learn valuable life lessons such as teamwork, unselfishness, and discipline, children that quit sports due to negative feedback from coaches miss out on these benefits.
Also, sports are one of the best ways for children to get exercise, which is why keeping children involved in sports is essential, especially since there is no sugarcoating the fact that America has become an overweight nation. All bad puns aside, the communication between coaches and young athletes is an issue that has many serious implications. Be sure to check back for the next installments of my series on coaching youth athletes.
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Life Coach Says "Everything Happens For a Good Reason" – Episode 20 – Video
Posted: July 4, 2012 at 4:16 pm
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Data Intelligence Limited Recognized as Winner of 2012 Microsoft Life Sciences Innovation Awards
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LONDON, July 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
Data Intelligence today announced it is a 2012 winner of Microsoft Corp.'s Life Sciences Innovation Awards.
The awards, announced at the Drug Information Association's (DIA) 48th annual meeting in Philadelphia, honor companies using Microsoft solutions to realize business and information technology benefits. This year's notable winners are revolutionizing medicine by bringing therapeutic breakthroughs to the market faster, to fight serious ailments, improve healthcare and enhance people's quality of life.
"Now more than ever, the life sciences industry is faced with many challenges including cutting costs and bring new drugs and therapies to market faster," said Andrea McGonigle, national managing director, Life Sciences, Microsoft Corp."We are impressed with how the winners demonstrate sustainable impacts through technology, and are proud that Microsoft's software plays an important role in enabling these achievements in life sciences."
Data Intelligence' innovative sales force coaching application PharmaCOACH, built on Microsoft technology including Silverlight, helps healthcare companies align to their medical and non-medical customers by equipping the field teams with the right blend of knowledge, skills and behaviors needed for successful professional interactions. Data Intelligence alongside their pharmaceutical client, a leading global provider of specialty medicines, developed PharmaCOACH to meet the client's demanding professional standards in terms of ethics, clinical knowledge, professional selling skills and above all healthcare customer partnering behaviors. All of these capabilities were built in against a backdrop of a rapidly changing healthcare environment (the UK NHS currently undergoing major reconfiguration). The capabilities delivered by PharmaCOACH and the client's highly effective training and coaching team helped the client grow their business and retain their most important accounts and customers. Now in its fourth major version, PharmaCOACH has been proven to add significant value and competitive advantage to medical sales teams again and again.
Tony Cox, Head of Client Effectiveness at Data Intelligence said "winning the Microsoft Innovation Award in recognition of PharmaCOACH and the difference it has made to our most important clients is the realization of a long term ambition for excellence in sales coaching. This award underlines the fact that we're aligning closely to our customers' needs, what their end users need, and importantly we're collectively adding value to patients by being more aligned, more skilled and closer to our customer".
Award participants consisted of worldwide life sciences corporations in pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies that are innovatively applying technology to create therapeutic innovations. Winners were selected by an esteemed panel of industry experts and will be highlighted on the Microsoft website at http://www.microsoft.com/lifesciences and on the Microsoft in Health blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_in_health/.
Notes to Editors
Data Intelligence is a double Microsoft award winning healthcare solutions provider based in London, UK with a global client base. Their solution suite is completely oriented toward pharmaceutical and healthcare business intelligence and sales force effectiveness, comprising a range of highly innovative "software as a service" (SaaS) platforms all based on the Microsoft technology stack. Products include PharmaANALYTICS, a highly scalable business intelligence analytics framework operated as a real time service; PharmaKAM, an end-to-end key account management enabling and collaboration platform; PharmaCOACH; PharmaTALENT an employee development and appraisal optimization platform; and finally PharmaPRECISION a range of specialist consulting services aligned to healthcare companies requirements in the BI and SFE disciplines.
For More Information, Press Only: Jason Bryant, +44-7887-686392, Jason.Bryant@Data-Intel.co.uk, http://www.data-intel.net
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