This week TJ and Sam hit on an important topic for coaches which is how you confront your players and be honest with where they’re at while also creating a team culture that genuinely cares about each other.
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Show Notes:
• Good coaches aren’t afraid of confrontation
• Finding the balance between avoiding and seeking it
• High accountability v. the player’s coach
• What loving our players looks like
• Age, stage, and context matters
• Winning allows coaches to get away with things
• Legacy may be determined on how we handle confrontation
• Coaching hypocrisies
• The right approach rather than manipulation
• Building connection
• TJ’s preseason example
• Environment of transparency
• Delivering hard truth with emotion
• Belief & Honesty
• Letting individual players in on the conversation
• Staying in teacher mode
• Deflection and feeling pressure as a coach
• Utilizing positive emotion and energy
• What does the team and the particular player need
• Patience v. urgency
• Knowing what’s important
