How will your athletes look back at playing for you? Being intentional about building positive, impactful relationships is key. *I originally wrote this post over on my site – www.greatresourcesforcoaches.com – this past spring (2019) at the end of my son’s high school basketball career. I thought it would be appropriate message for basketball coaches to consider ahead…
Goal Coaching: Create Action Steps to Achievement
Once you have set your goals, it’s important to lay out the action steps that will lead you to achieving them. In last week’s post, “Be Goal-Driven,” I discussed the concept of setting challenging, achievable goals as you are preparing to create a successful year ahead. I stated that goals are the foundation that you must…
More Than Just Talk: Building Communication on Offense
The benefits of better offensive communication, along with role responsibilities, practice ideas and drills to improve this area. *This is the final part in a 3-part series. Check out previous posts: Building Communication With Your Team | Building Communication on Defense Although the defensive side of the floor usually gets most of the focus when…
More Than Just Talk: Building Communication on Defense
Ideas, drills and an overall plan for developing good communication habits on the defensive end of the court. *This is Part 2 of a 3-part series. Check out Part 1 on Why Team Communication is Important, and Part 3 on Offensive Communication. When discussing communication in basketball, most coaches immediately focus on the defensive side of…
More Than Just Talk: Building Communication With Your Team
Communication is a basketball skill just like any other, which coaches can develop by emphasizing in practice. *This is Part 1 of a 3-part series. Read Part 2 on Defensive Communication and Part 3 on Offensive Communication. If you’ve coached long enough, you’ve probably run into multiple situations where one of your players failed to…
Better Coaches Mindset: Feedback, Criticism and Trust
This is the third post of the #BetterCoaches Mindset series in partnership with HoopGrind, and was originally published on its site here. Read the first post exploring the Hedgehog Concept here, and the second post on Passion vs Obsession here. If you attend any basketball practice around the world, you are likely to hear the Coach stressing…
Mindful Leadership: Uncovering Authenticity, Giving Attention and Building Trust
Mindful leadership is leading from the inside out. It starts with being able to uncover who you actually are so you can authentically lead. This is the only way to build trust. And, it’s where mindfulness comes into play. With a mindfulness practice, we train our minds to recognize when our attention drifts, and develop…
Coaching Youth Sports
Playing youth sports is one of the most memorable and exciting experiences a student gets to enjoy during childhood. Youth sports can help build relationships with friends, develop a sense of self- confidence and encouragement, and acquire and learn important life lessons from competition and play. With all of the joys that come with participation…
There is Power in Your Words
This is the third in this series of posts I have done on the importance of coaches being teachers – not teachers in the sense of having to be classroom teachers, but in the sense that they must learn strategies to teach their players the same way that classroom teachers use strategies to teach their students. To see the previous two…
Do You Understand?
This post is the second of a few that come from some ideas I wrote in my first two booklets “A Head Coach’s Guide for Working with Assistants” and “The Assistant Coach’s Guide to Coaching.” While those booklets were born out of some specific head coach/assistant coach issues I was facing with some members of…
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