Every day, coaches come up with grand visions and values for their programs but continuously fail to actualize them. The following article was inspired by a long message I received from a coaching friend, sports parent, and business consultant. It is meant to...
The Problem with Your Problems Back in 1974, a young film director named Steven Spielberg had what he thought was a really big problem. He was making a shark movie, but he didn’t have a shark. He was over budget, past the deadline, and pouring more and more money into...
As coaches, we love to talk about toughness. We want tough players. We probably have a good vision of what toughness looks like for our players, but do we know what toughness looks like for us coaches? When I reflect on my own coaching, or even when I turn on the...