The guts of a winning N.F.L. franchise are composed of three basic ingredients: talented players, skilled coaches and game strategies that outwit the opposition.
Skilled coaches will teach you to lean over and touch the ice as you take each turn, and as Apolo Ohno says in a Vancouver Olympics commercial, "skate with these incredible, long knives on your feet".
The strategy being tested is based upon a novel application of the well-established principles of deploying highly skilled coaches, selected and trained for their ability to develop talents of others.
Contrary to some myths that Life Coaching is simply someone telling you what to do, a skilled Life Coach listens and asks questions.
A technically skilled tracksuit coach he improved hitherto liabilites such as Younès Kaboul and Patrick van Aanholt beyond recognition at Sunderland last season.
A skilled basketball coach assembles the right mix of players and motivates them to play hard, mesh together and attend to all the little things that lead to victory.
Teachers will be increasingly important as skilled performance coaches.
