“The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame.”
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Hank Haney was once asked by Forbes Magazine for the parallels between planning for retirement and golf instruction. The answer he provided below can be applied by every corporate leader as they think about the challenges of business success in 2010. Hank’s answer was “There are parallels. The most important thing you can have is a plan, whether that's for your investments or your golf game. You have to be patient. Both require long-term approaches. There are ups and downs, and you can't get too high with the ups or too low with the down. Today’s program will provide the tremendous insight that can be applied anywhere from the 18th green to the boardroom from the founder of Hank Haney Golf, Inc. and top ranked coach of several major championship winners.
Participants in this program will learn:
· The importance of having a roadmap to guide an individual or organization toward its goals
· How to better diagnose the challenges that currently exist
· Why organizations need to set realistic goals for their organization
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Hank Haney developed his desire to teach while majoring in education at Tulsa University graduating in 1977. In the years since, Hank has enthusiastically set out to be a great instructor of the golf swing. He has steadily built a reputation as an instructor, not only to the club level player, but to touring pros as well. After working as either the Head Pro, Director of Instruction or Director of Golf at several large golf operations, Hank Haney opened his own golf instruction center in 1991. Hank Haney also operates 4 teaching facilities in the Dallas, Texas area. Hank Haney works with his students to develop an accurate plan to improve the flight of their golf ball. By giving cause and effect analogies, coupled with physical hands on examples, the student and instructor can create a relationship that will produce positive results. Hank has taught more than 200 touring professionals from the PGA, LPGA, and European, Japanese, and Asian tours and his pupils have wonder every one of golf’s major events in both the professional and amateur ranks. Hank's signature golf course design came to fruition in a collaborative effort with Jim Fazio on the award winning Texarkana Golf Ranch in Texarkana, Texas. He has also designed the Hank Haney Golf Ranch in McKinney, Texas with famed course architect Pete Dye. He has written articles for numerous publications including Golf Digest, Golf Illustrated Magazine and the Dallas Morning News. Hank has authored 4 books on golf instruction; "Essentials of the Swing", “The Only Golf Lesson You’ll Ever Need”, “No More Bad Shots” and “Fix Your Yips Forever” Hank has worked with many organizations and businesses including the following: Nike, Buick, General Motors, ESPN, Ely Lilly, CA, IBM, Nortel, EDS, American Express, FBR, Jones Day, Wachovia, Merrill Lynch, Breakfast Club of America, Chevron, Morgan Stanley, Arean Sports, Golfsmith, PGA of America, European PGA, and many others “My philosophy as a teacher is to teach my students to become their own best teacher by getting them to understand the flight of the golf ball and how it relates to the swing, with emphasis on swinging the golf club on their own correct swing plane”.