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Useful Resources

Start to develop even greater awareness of others’ DISC styles or dive deeper into your own DISC Profile by accessing these useful resources. These materials will help you explore various applications of DISC and learn from other industry best practices.

About Athlete Assessments

Athlete Assessments are experts in the people side, while we traditionally work in sport, our DISC assessments and reach extends far beyond this. Our team works across many industries outside of sport, including business, corporate, and mining, working with teams and organizations of all sizes to enhance professional development, leadership, team, and individual performances.

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How to Improve Team Communication with DISC

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DISC in Sport Workbook

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How Does DISC Influence Your Decision-Making?

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Exclusive Videos

Recruiting for the X-Factor in Sport

Coaches often want to recruit athletes with the “X Factor”. But what is the X Factor? And why can recruiting for it create problems in your team? In this video, Bo Hanson discusses why recruiting for the X-Factor is not the best option for coaches

Athlete Centered Coaching

What is Athlete-Centered Coaching? Athlete Centered Coaching is a coaching philosophy underpinned by a set of values and coaching behaviors, where the primary goal of the coach is to help their athletes take responsibility of their sporting behaviors that create their results. Bo discusses why this approach to coaching generates the best outcomes with Generation Y Athletes.

Coaching for Athlete Resiliency

All coaches want their athletes to be mentally tough and resilient. So how do you coach to make your athletes more resilient? In this video, Bo Hanson discusses two practical strategies for developing athlete resiliency; reframing and attribution theory.

The Circle of Safety in Sport

In this video, Bo Hanson discusses the critical model that is the Circle of Safety. What is a Circle of Safety? Why it is integral to creating a successful team? And how do different different styles of coaching can contribute to creating a safe and secure environment for athletes?

What to Get Right in the Pre-Season

As the saying goes, get the first 15% right and the remaining 85% will follow. In this video, Bo Hanson discusses how to ensure your season starts on the right track and stays that way.

How to Deal With Athletes You Don't Like

All coaches will at some point encounter an athlete they have trouble connecting with. In this video, Bo Hanson discusses the best way to coach athletes you don’t like, and how to manage this situation with as little disruption to your coaching program as possible.

Deal with People in Your Sporting Organization You Don't Like

As a coach, you will also at some point encounter people in your sporting organization you don’t get along with. In this video, Bo Hanson discusses how to manage this situation, and includes an example from when he encountered this situation in his career in elite sport.

How to Sustain Great Team Chemistry by Treating Athletes Differently

At the core of DISC is the understanding that different athletes need to be treated differently. So how do you balance equity, fairness, while treating athletes differently and sustaining great team chemistry. In this video, Bo Hanson gives practical insights into managing this balance.

Bench Engagement in Sport

In this video, Bo Hanson discusses the best way to effectively engage and manage the bench of athletes in your team, and why managing this effectively can set teams apart.

What is the Traditional Coaching Style?

While this video mentions Softball coaches specifically, learning about the Traditional Coaching Style is valuable for all coaches. Bo discusses what the Traditional Coaching Style is and why it is no longer working with athletes.

The SBR Model

Our DISC Profile describes in detail, how we ‘prefer’ to behave. Sometimes our ‘preferred’ behaviors work well for the situation and deliver great results and sometimes they work poorly and deliver poor results. DISC helps you know what behavior you are exhibiting. In this video, Bo Hanson discusses the SBR Model (Situation x Behaviour = Result).

Solving Athlete Confidence for Good

Whether you have been coaching for years or decades you will know the struggle of week-to-week athlete up and downs. Often this fluctuation in performance is attributed to confidence. As a Coach you have to reframe the issue. Stop thinking about building athlete confidence, it is far more effective to look towards how you can build an athlete’s self-belief in their competencies.

Lack of Athlete Accountability

Athlete Accountability is about athletes taking responsibility for their own performances and becoming students of the sport. In this video, Bo Hanson discusses the lack of athlete accountability he has recently seen, and how coaches can help athletes become more accountable.

How to Deal with Conflict

In any group of people, you’ll find a natural diversity in the way people prefer to behave (i.e. different DISC Styles). Conflict can arise with people having different priorities around their focus (i.e. whether they prioritize the goal/task or people/relationships) and/or on their pace (i.e. slower or faster). Often, conflict is perceived negatively or as something to avoid. This need not be the case.

Skill Acquisition

Skill Acquisition is the one thing that every elite athlete has in common, irrespective of their sport. It is their ability to master skill acquisition. In this video, Bo Hanson explores what the experts in this field are doing and how this links ultimately to self-awareness and self-regulation.

Creating Healthy Competition in Sports Teams

Ideally, athletes will focus on being the best athlete for the team, rather than the best athlete on the team. What’s the difference? In this video, Bo Hanson discusses how to create healthy competition in sports teams.

Bo's Best and Worst Teams

In this video, Bo Hanson discusses the best and worst teams he was a part of in his rowing career, particularly the diverse team he was a part of in the lead up to the 1996 Olympic Games.