Coaching a Winning Team

Produced

• 1997

Key Features

Video type: VHS or DVD
Length: 55 mins.

a Stanford Graduate School of Business Executive Briefing

Program Highlights:

• Building credibility and consensus in a vision.
• Using enthusiasm to turn around team motivation.
• Identifying and using complementary strengths in a team.

Featuring:
Tara VanDerveer
Director & Head Coach Women's Basketball Stanford University

This motivating and inspirational video provides a dynamic stab in the arm.  Tara VanDerveer shows viewers a successful team is born of strengthening individual qualities and focusing them on a singular goal, on a baskeball team or at work. A candid and engaging storyteller, VanDerveer shares her storytelling expertise through examples of coaching methods that have helped her teams triumph, as well as what she has learned to avoid. She uses honesty and positive reinforcement as the cornerstones of her process, she explains how to maintain team unity and stay focused on a goal.

In her 14th year as Head Coach of the Stanford Cardinal Woman's Basketball Team, Tara VanDerveerhas had an extraordinary record of 344 wins to 90 losses, including eleven 20-win seasons. She has led her teams to two NCAA championships. In addition to her successes at Stanford, she coached the USA Woman's Basketball Team to an Olympic gold medal in 1996 and to three gold medals in World Championships.

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