If You Coach, This One's For you!
Andrea Savard
Aug 18, 2026
There’s a phrase we use often at FirePower:
#CoachingIsWhatWeDo
It sounds simple, but there’s a lot behind those four words. Great coaching isn’t just explaining a workout, correcting a squat or improving performance.
It’s seeing people.
It’s knowing when someone needs to be challenged — and when they need encouragement. It’s correcting without embarrassing. Celebrating effort others might miss. Helping someone discover they’re capable of more than they thought.
Recently, my colleague Kevin Crone from Dale Carnegie wrote a short book called Winning With Heart. It was created with youth coaches and parents in mind, but as I read it, I kept thinking:
If you coach people, teach people, manage people, parent people or lead people, there is something in this little book for you.
Kevin organizes the book around four parts of coaching: building the team, building the athlete, handling the hard stuff, and your coaching legacy.
But look a little closer and those aren't just sports concepts.
They're about earning trust. Creating culture. Correcting with care. Having difficult conversations. Building confidence. And recognizing the impact we can have on another person.
That's why this little book resonated so strongly with us. At FirePower, technical knowledge matters. Programming matters. Safety matters. But great coaches also understand people.
Years from now, you may not remember every workout, score or personal record. But chances are, you’ll remember a coach who believed in you.
That’s the kind of coaching we aspire to provide.
We have complimentary copies of Winning With Heart at FirePower, or you can download it free below.
Give it a read — and then tell us: Who was a coach you’ll never forget, and why?
Email me! I'd love to hear from you,
Andrea
