NY Yankees
In 2001 the NY Yankee Player Development group was ranked #23 out of 32 teams. By the end of the year they were ranked #1 and have stayed in the Top 5 ever since. Here’s how Sean helped one of the best teams in baseball become even better…
In 2001, the New York Yankee Player Development group was struggling. Mark Newman, SVP Operations and Tom Hanson, Director of Performance Enhancement hired Sean to conduct a 3 day workshop for coaches and 3 months of follow up coaching and consulting.
In the 3 day workshop, Sean introduced the coaches to the “spectrum of different teaching styles” such as “Guided Discovery”, the power of focusing on critical variables, and a number of “awareness-based” exercises that helped players learn from their own experience and develop the “relaxed focus” needed to perform well under pressure.
In the follow up consulting, Sean worked directly with Hanson to help him keep the coaches focused and on track with this different approach to working with players and to ensure that they put the new exercises into practice.
The Results?
In the words of Mark Newman:
“Our results this year were nothing short of extraordinary thanks to you.”–Mark Newman, SVP Operations, NY Yankees
