Tier 3: Transitioning
Coming into a sport as a rookie, surviving the ups and downs of a player’s life, and exiting play with a well-planned, good future to look forward to. That’s the nutshell version of successful transition through the stages of a professional athlete’s life. ARD offers coaching and expanded trainings for players, their families/significant others, and other team and league persons on both the psychology and the practicality of moving through these stages successfully.
Our transition coaching focuses on the following:
- Grounding the rookie
- Understanding they are separated from the life they have always known but not yet adjusted to the life they are beginning
- Identifying and dealing with sudden wealth and fame
- Mastering social and professional etiquette
- Evaluating whom to trust
- Mastering the characteristics, habits, and skills of a successful entrepreneur – regardless of which specific business may be involved
- Executive functioning to initiate, plan and organize, set goals, solve problems, regulate emotions, and monitor behavior – particularly within a leadership position
- Private tutoring in public speaking, media management, interpersonal communication, decision making, strategic thinking, cash flow management, and other areas where players are expected to be competent.
- Spouses and significant others getting knowledge and skills to help their mates through:
- That 1st year
- Being traded or not picked up
- Career ending occurrences such as injury, domestic violence, criminal activity, or addiction
- Letting their old life go without losing the core of who they are
Personal Life
Professional Pressures
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