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Motivation/Team Bonding

• Cheer mailboxes
• Condtioning and Team Bonding - Cheer Game Board
• Host Your Own Olympic Games
• Motivating Your Cheerleaders
• Team Building - Varsity.com
• Spirit Fridays
• Achievement Policies - ASEP
• Team Mission
• Competition Mental Toughness
• Team Themes
• Mental Skills Evaluation - The Mental Athlete, Kay Porter
• Limits -The Mental Athlete, Kay Porter
• Mental Self-Talk -The Mental Athlete, Kay Porter
• Transformers -The Mental Athlete, Kay Porter
• Commitment Pledge
• Confident Cheerleading (web site) - Dr. Pamela Enders
• Sports Psychology Guidelines for Parents
• 10 Tips to Improve Confidence and Success in Youth Athletes - Youth Sports Psychology
• Peak Sports Network (web site)

GIFTS

• Motivational Gifts
• Motivating Gifts
• More Motivational Ideas
• Banquet Ideas and Gifts
• Coupon Book
• Memory Books
• Paper Bag Albums
• Megaphone Album
• Spirit Journals
• Seniors Lead the Way - A card that necourages seniors to lead their teams
• Smarties - Motivation to keep up their GPA
• New Motivational Gifts
  • Directions for DECORATED NOTEPAD
  • Decorated STICKY NOTEPAD
  • POPPERS - "Start the Season with a bang!"
  • WASHCLOTH or SPONGE - "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff!"
  • MATCHBOX filled with candy or small notepad
  • POPCORN WRAPPER - "Popping in to Wish You a Great Season!"
  • CANDY POPPERS filled with goodies
    
  • HALLOWEEN IDEAS
  • DECORATED TURKEY CUPCAKES or COOKIES - Attach a note that says "Gobble up the Competition"
  • SHAMROCK CARD - good luck card
  • STICK WITH IT card
    
    

GAMES

• Condtioning and Team Bonding - Cheer Game Board
• Team Building Questions (first practice or start of new season)
• Team Building Games
• More Team Bonding Ideas
• Theme Practices
• Recommended Books
  The Big Book of Team Building Games by John Newstrom & Edward Scannell
  The Big Book of Icebreakers by Edie West
  The Big Book of Motivational Games by Robert Epstein, Ph.D.
  Energizers and Ice Breakers, Book I and Book II by Elizabeth Sabrinsky Foster, Ed.D.

 

INSPIRATIONAL IDEAS/QUOTES

• Song Themes
• Motivational Posters
• Poems
• Coach Poems & Quotes
• Recording Awesome Squad Memories
• Top Ten Attributes of a True Champion
• Wheaties Boxes Template
• Magazine Cover - Turn your cheerleader's photo into a magazine cover. Use it for a cheer journal cover or banquet present. Robin Stanek, Oak Harbor Youth Cheer
• Cheerleader of the Week

 

RECOMMENDED BOOKS

• 101 Exciting New Tips to Energize Your Cheerleaders, Gwen Holtsclaw
• Coaching the Mental Game, H.A Dorfman
• Creative Coaching, Jerry Jackson
• Coaching and Motivation, William Warren
• Catching Them at Being Good, Tony Dicicco & Colleen Hacker
• Double Goal Coaching, Jim Thompson
• Seven Secrets fo Successful Coaches, Jeff Janssen & Greg Dale
  
• Championship Team Building, Jeff Janssen
• Positive Coaching, Jim Thompson
• The Mental Athlete, Kay Porter
• 101 Motivational Messages & Quotes, Bruce Eamon Brown
• Another 101 Motivational Messages & Quotes, Bruce Eamon Brown
• Motivational Strategies for Coaches, Bruce Eamon Brown
• First Steps to Creating a Successful Team, Bruce Eamon Brown
• Compete, Bruce Bruce Eamon Brown
• Teach Attitude First, Bruce Eamon Brown
• A Standard Higher Than Victory, Bruce Eamon Brown
• Team Stories, Seize the Season, Bruce Eamon Brown
• Life Lessons for Athletes, Bruce Eamon Brown
• Winning with Teamwork, Katherine Karvelas
• How Full is Your Bucket? - Tom Rath and Donald O. Clifton, PhD
• The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy, Jon Gordon
• The No Complaining Rule, Jon Gordon
  

 

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