“Don’t waste time with negative energy on what doesn’t work.”

Brandon Naurato, Player Development Coach for the Detroit Red Wings, had a lot of great takeaways from his Global Skills Showcase talk on Connecting the missing links in a development plan, and that is one of them.

Naurato, who has been with the Red Wings for the past three seasons, is all about the rule of threes: identify the problem, provide a solution and build an action plan. This works for most things in life, but he specifically applies it to three phases of skill development: technical, tactical & transferable.

The language of coaching, the identification process, and possessing the right knowledge are also topics covered in this 49-minute video, as is how to design a development session. This is a video to bookmark because you’ll be referring to it often!