Calling Up: Discovering Your Journey to Transformational Leadership
Modern-day coaches face the same challenges every day: entitled youth, overinvolved parents, and the community and administration’s expectation for wins. Coaching does not just take a great deal of time; it takes an emotional and physical toll, and coaches need to know they are not the only ones facing these struggles. After over 11 years of coaching, and his own coaching philosophy transformation, J.P. Nerbun felt called to share the hard lessons that could not be found in a book when he started coaching. Calling Up provides an easily accessible and inspiring story as J.P. details the transformative experience of a high school basketball coach named Daniel and his year-long struggle to keep his job while working to become the coach he always wanted to be.
Apart from the entertaining and relatable story, which connects with coaches on a personal level, Calling Up provides coaches with principles based on scientific research and personal experience that explore how people learn, what motivates them, and the human condition. These principles are shared by some of the most highly qualified and successful coaches in sports and J.P. also provides specific tools and explains how those tools are applied within the context of a team. At the end of the day, Calling Up shows coaches not just how to build great athletes, but how to build great people.
Reviews (38)
Awesome Story and Lessons!
I loved "Calling Up"! I have followed JP Nerbun for a short time, and I have liked the things I have read and heard. "Calling Up" went to a whole new level, though. Great messages and lessons for coaches, yes, but there is so much more to take from this than ways to be a better coach and leader. Great lessons for anyone to become a better version of themselves and live a more fulfilling life. Do yourself a favor and read "Calling Up"!
Clearer View
Recommend for leaders in all walks of life. JP uses basketball to tell the story but applicable for all leadership situations. Easy to read and offers opportunities to write and reflect own experiences.
If You're ready to change, this is the book.
This is a must read for any coach, who is ready to make the change from an outcome oriented coach to a transformational coach. This book gives you the insite on how to go about the process to make the transformation that all coaches strive to achieve fulfilment. On top of that, JP has built a program that will help you with your journey to become the transformational coach and begin leading with love.
Great read
Very good book for an old school coach to read . Helping to move into the modern era
Motivating and inspirational
Once I started reading this book, I couldn't stop. It's uplifting and motivational. And I'm not even a coach. I found the book helpful for my personal life -- in my career, in my marriage, in my parenting.
A great read!
I really enjoyed this. This book contains a lot of useful and powerful tips and strategies within the story of a coach trying to figure things out. I think it is a story all can relate to and learn from. A great read!
Great book
Excellent book for coaches of all levels and sports
Practical Ideas for Coaches!
While there are many excellent resources out there on transformational leadership, this is one of the best books in this area as it not only discusses and describes what you need to do to become a transformational leader, it offers practical ideas for leaders to use. Many resources will talk about the importance of culture, accountability, and empowering leaders, but if you are like me, after reading these different articles and books, you ask yourself: "well how do I do that?" Nerbun does not only describe the values and traits of a transformational leader, but he offers a variety of ideas for coaches and leaders to use with their teams. The book offers excellent examples that the readers can relate to or may have even found themselves in a similar situation in their past, which gives the reader a chance to reflect on their beliefs and method of leadership. While the story focuses on a basketball coach, the values and strategies that Nerbun explains throughout the narrative can be taken and used by any coach or leader. If you are a coach that wants to continue to grow as a leader and empower your athletes as leaders, this is the book for you!
A great read for coaches at any level
Calling Up is a great read for coaches at any level and helps rewrite the narrative of what a successful coach truly looks like. I found much of the book to be very relatable as someone who has experienced many of the same circumstances and situations as the main character. The author provides years of research and wisdom and weaves them into the story, but also provides action items for coaches to implement in their own cultures and systems. JP Nerbun is one of the leaders in the revolution to bring the sports world back to its true purpose: using sports to develop character and enrich the human experience.
A tremendous "how to" book to build a positive and impactful coaching philosophy
Through the lens of Daniel, a near-burnt out high school boy's basketball coach, JP Nerbun takes you on the journey from being a transactional coach to becoming a transformational coach. Chalk-full of insightful antidotes, well-researched ideas for coaching practices, and chapter-by-chapter questions for coaches to stop and reflect on, this is a quick, yet in-depth read for anyone serious about positively changing young people's lives in the coaching profession. As a high school basketball coach for 22 years myself, I have already recommended it for several of my coaching colleagues regardless of sport (it's NOT just a basketball book but a coaching book).
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