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Coaching Sports and Social Media Safety
You sit down at your desk — there’s a call on your cell phone. As you answer you look over and there’s a voice mail on your office phone. Then your email goes nuts. Your Twitter stream starts rolling....
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Are Your Athletes Glued to Their Smartphones?
Do they hear only half (or less) of what you say? Is it hard for them to concentrate during practice? Are you wondering why they don’t respond to your emails? If so, then when I say “attention is your...
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How do I get athletes to respond to my emails?
I hit “Send Message” and waited. And waited. And waited. My head began to spin … I muttered, “What’s wrong with these athletes — why don’t they respond?” Do they hate me? Have they quit? Were they...
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How To Coach Sports And Deal With Digital Overwhelm
“Technology is a great slave but a terrible master.” – Tim Ferriss My first experience with my cell phone was awful. I finally threw it away. It was a dumb phone. I liked it for the camera. Hated the...
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Will a robot take your coaching job?
You’re not going to like this, but I have to ask you a question. You’ll probably think it’s the stupidest question you’ve gotten today. Or this week. Or maybe this decade. Regardless, I’m going to ask...
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How To Find Gold When You’re An Overwhelmed Coach
Overwhelmed? Digital information bombarding you from every angle? It’s understandable. There’s a new book, new podcast, new video, new newsletter released every 20 seconds. Each one has the promise to...
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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:...
View ArticleYour Coaching-Improvement Action List
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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Stop trying to become a better sports coach
Why is it that coaches are rarely formally taught? Drivers are taught Doctors are taught Teachers are taught But sport coaches? Nope. Coaches are rarely formally taught — especially in the US. (Did you...
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Yes Coach, you are a marketer
And now you need to get better at it Care to disagree about being a marketer? Okay, I’ll entertain that for a moment. A marketer (according to the smartest person on this topic I know) is someone who:...
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The most important person you will ever coach
Your reflection gives a perspective of how you look. Of how other people will see you. Looking deeper into that mirror you will see the most important person you will ever coach. Yep, it’s you. That’s...
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People don’t want you as their coach
It’s not personal. Instead, they want what your coaching will do for them. They want the way it will make them feel. The problem it will solve. The relief it will give them. If your coaching can help...
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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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Keep your athletes
Coaches invest resources, and energy, and sweat into recruiting athletes. It comes with the territory. Some may think this is only true of college or national teams. It’s true at all levels. Here’s the...
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Let Your Authentic Coaching Shine Through
Authentic coaching is critical to recruiting. Specifically, you NEED to represent yourself, your program, your school honestly. This is super critical for two reasons. First, today’s prospects are a...
View ArticleThe Power of An Athlete’s Role
In work, in sports, in our daily life we want a role to play. Scratch that — we NEED to play a role. We need to know where we fit in. It’s important to us as humans. Why? It helps us feel connected....
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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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