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The Superpower Your Team Must Have
(photo credit: Wikimedia Commons) Here’s a harsh reality of coaching sports — the quality of your team defines who YOU are as a coach. Lousy team = lousy coach Good team = good coach Great team = great...
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Preventing Athletes From Making Mistakes On Social Media
I had a problem. My oldest son, a college football player, was eating ALL the food in our house. He ate everything. Every-single-crumb. Including stuff I cooked. (Even though I’m the son of a...
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Is That A Digital-Angel (or Digital-Devil) Sitting On Your Shoulder?
There comes a time when I need to face the truth. In this instance, there are three truths, digital truths, that I’m trying to process: Digital Truth #1: Digital is impacting coaches Digital Truth #2:...
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Empower Your Coaching With The Right Question
A short while ago, I thought ideas were the new currency. So I would write 10 ideas and send them to people. All sorts of people. Maybe I sent some to you. I noticed something when I sent these ideas:...
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Few of us are exactly the coach we want to be. We constantly work to get better — that comes with the profession. I’ve yet to visit a coach who isn’t a consumer of “how to get better” books, podcasts,...
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A simple plan for coaching success
You want coaching success. The fire burns in you. You’ve seen others do it, so you know you can do it too. Then a fair question is, “How does coaching success happen?” A suggestion, start by developing...
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4 Common Coaching Mistakes You Are Making (and How To Stop)
(this is an updated version of post originally published in 2012) Every well intentioned, good, respectable coach makes coaching mistakes. It comes with the territory. Following are four common...
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Human to human, and coaching relationship
Relationships are at the epicenter of effective coaching. It’s a strong statement, and probably not news to you. Over the years, I’ve found two things distract from that statement. First, the...
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Are You Good Enough To Coach Your Sport?
[This is an update to an article original published in 2012] We coaches may look composed and tough on the outside, but on the inside we often have the same fears and worries that typical folks have. I...
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Effective Persuasion, The Secret Sauce Of Your Coaching Success
[This is the first in the series on effective persuasion for sport coaches, and is a significant update from the original article.] You have a team meeting. “Okay team,” you say. “Here’s what I want...
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The Epic Coach Struggle: To Yell Or To Fascinate
[This is part three in the series on effective persuasion for sport coaches and is updated from the 2015 version.] Melissa was a great swimmer. Extraordinary someone would say. In the straightaways she...
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Should You Open Up Your Bag-Of-Coaching-Tricks?
I’ve noticed many coaches (especially myself) have a few coaching tricks we hold on to. Honestly, I’ve tried many of the new, latest-and-greatest tricks. Especially when it comes to using the newest...
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Old Gold Coaching
Yes, it’s that time of year again. When we pitch the old stuff, and cart in the new. It’s time to reinvent. To try new things. Ah…but there’s one big error Coaches tend to make. Moving Too Quickly Many...
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Better recruiting by breakfast
Did you know you can improve your recruiting between the time you wake up and the time you eat your breakfast? For some of you that’s only a few minutes — or less. Maybe you just grab a banana going...
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Communicate Your Point So Others Will See Your Coaching Brilliance
(this is an update form an archived article) Coach Bill was one of my favorites. He had a way of engaging us so practices flew by and we felt super-ready for competitions. Our first year was a great...
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How To Make A Living From Coaching Sports
Q: What’s the difference between a sport coach, and an extra-large cheese pizza? A: The cheese pizza can feed a family of four. I sat in the parking lot, my forehead on the steering wheel. I was...
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