The Ultimate Team Bond: 20 Years of Lessons Packed into One Course
Every great hockey season starts with one thing: team chemistry. But how do you actually build it? After two decades of leading team-building sessions for coaches, athletes, and organizations worldwide, Lee has distilled his best strategies, drills, and real-world lessons—both the wins and the hard-learned mistakes—into The Ultimate Team Building Course for Coaches.
In this special micro-episode, he shares why team bonding isn’t just “nice to have,” why the start of the season is the prime time to build it, and how this new online course can give you an entire season’s worth of tools to strengthen trust, communication, leadership, and accountability on your team.
If you’ve ever asked, “How can I get my players to truly work together?”—this is your playbook.
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Hello hockey friends and families around the world and welcome back to another
edition of our kids play hockey You know in many of the episodes that we've done
We have offered up this free e -book for team building and we have been Astonished
at how many of you have emailed over asking for this book It's very clear that
team building is something that's important to you and your teams. I think we've had
hockey coaches do it. I think some of you just wanted to use it within your work
environments as well. But it's a question we get all the time is what are the
things that I can do with my team to help build and grow? Well, as many of you
know, I've been doing professional team building for over 20 years. It is really my
great love in life. I'm so blessed that it's my profession and that I get to
travel around working with teams, building those team bonds, building that chemistry.
And what I've found is that in today's day and age, most coaches and most people
for that matter know they need team building. They know they need chemistry. They
need the ability for the kids to work together or the people to work together, but
they don't know how to build it. So all of this mixed together to create this
recipe to help me decide to make a online course that we're gonna be sharing with
all of you. It is super discounted price for this audience. But I put everything
I've done over 20 years into this course, right? It's called the ultimate team
building course for coaches. And we wanna offer it to this audience. You inspired me
to make it and answers that question of how do I build a team bond for my team
this season, right? And the way we've built it, again, it's a module based course,
very bite -sized seven to 12 minute little sections. We put in a full e -book of
team building drills and at the end we even throw in a one -on -one meeting with me
once you complete the course. So we wanted to make this really, really valuable for
you and your teams. And again, at this time of year when this is coming out, kind
of the early season, pre -season time period, that is the most effective time to
build a team bot, okay? So again, I took all of my experience and the understanding
that I can only be in one place at once. I would love to travel and work with
all of your teams. I've gotten so many requests to do this. This course is my
answer to that question. It's my answer to that problem, right? If you take this
course, it will go through all of the methodologies that I have discovered,
researched, and continue to evolve upon over the last 20 years and will give you
the tools in each section to apply them to your team. It's also built in a way
that you can find maybe the pain points with your team and jump around within the
modules to find what's going to work for you. Another thing I like to do in this
thing is I tell a lot of my war stories, I tell a lot of things I did right,
also the things I did wrong over the last 20 years to make sure that these bonds
continue to grow, right? Every section has some reflection questions for you. It also
has, again, actionable items within that e -book that you can apply some of those
thoughts of trust, communication, adversity, accountability, leadership, mentorship,
all the things that it takes to create and maintain a great team bond. And again,
you inspired me to do this. I would love it minimum just for you to check it out.
There's a link accompanying this episode in the description. All you to do is click
on that. It'll take you to the preview page about the team building course so you
can get some more information. And again, we're giving 100 bucks off to this
audience specifically just because I love you so much. And I know so many of you
need this. So if you have any questions about this course, you can email me at
team @ourkidsplayahockey .com. If you want me just to send you the link, you can get
me there as well. But again, we created this to give you the tools for the entire
season of what you can use, what you can implement today within your team to create
that team bond, to create that team chemistry, and to help you accomplish your goals
and win. I can tell you right now, no team I've ever worked with was successful
without a team chemistry, all right? And if they had some wins on the score sheet,
it wasn't a fun year. So again, whether you want to win the championship this year,
or whether to find winning is just great hockey, great development, great fun. This
course is going to give you the tools to do that, right? And I am so happy,
proud, fortunate, and blessed to have the medium in today's day and age to bring it
to you. So again, the link for that course is in this description with this episode
or email me at team @ourkidsplayhockey .com. I will send you over the link. It's 100
bucks off for a limited amount of time. Above all, I want to tell you how much I
believe in you. I want to thank you for being the best audience in the world. Mike
and Kristi gave their blessing on this. Mike's even endorsed it in terms of the co
-host. So check it out. The ultimate team building course for coaches is available
now. And again, we'll get it out to you right away. Thank you so much. Remember,
no matter where you're at on your hockey journey, we believe in you. You should
too. Have fun, skate on everybody. We'll see you on the next hour of kids play
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