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Control Your Anger and Enjoy Your Football
Picture the scene, it’s a Wednesday night, you’ve gone to the movies with your friends. You’ve been looking forward to seeing the latest blockbuster all week but on the way in you get less than satisfactory customer service from the cashier; it’s the snack vendor’s first day and takes he takes ages to get your popcorn; then, to top it all off, one of your friends sits in the seat you really wanted. You’ve got two ways to deal with this scenario: a) just accept it for what it is, just …
What Are Your 7 Core Coaching Values?
By Jeff Haefner, I believe that one of the best (maybe “the” best) way to make a positive impact on your basketball team and teach your players life lessons is to develop your own list of core values. This is a list that you carry with you. Perhaps you post it in the locker room. But whatever you do with it, you should clearly emphasize these core values with your team. It MUST be documented and well thought out. I believe this is one of the best things you can do …
What does it mean to be successful?
Each of us wants to be successful. Since its foundation the man is constantly striving for something better, more beautiful and more perfect. The same is valid for sports coaches. Coaches constantly strive for something better and bigger. Whether it’s about the players, results, clubs, money. There is no doubt that the work is the foundation of every success. However, a lot of hard work it’s not enough to achieve success. In my opinion to achieve success you need to change the way of thinking and that in itself, not in …
Coach as a person is beeing assessed according to his communication
“You can have brilliant ideas, but if you do not know how to present them, that is as you don’t have any of them.” I suppose you could be one of those who are sometimes wondering why are some coaches more successful than others, although, for example, they have the same level of knowledge or skills? Why do thy the better “sell” themselves on the sports market and have no trouble moving from smallest to more respectable clubs, advancing all the time and building continuosly financial and status benefits, although they sometimes …
Are coaches always right?
Most coaches want to be right, all of the time. So I was pleasantly surprised when I read that if a man is right 55 percent of the time, he can be considered a great man. If you want to convince your players that certain training exercises can be done better, you should never say “I’ll prove to you that this can be done better”! This is the same as telling them “You’d better listen to me, because I’m smarter than you”. Defiance and conflict among players and a toxic atmosphere …