

Coaching Culture
Coaching Culture Podcast
A podcast for leaders and coaches sharing practical strategies and tools to build your team's culture and help you grow as a leader. Co-hosted by J.P. Nerbun and Nate Sanderson of TOC Culture Consulting, and Betsy Butterick. Get the podcast notes and learn more about us at tocculture.com
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Jul 8, 2019 • 29min
94 Why Your Team’s Values Can Change Year to Year
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This week on the podcast, Nate and I wrestle with this question that came out of our previous conversation with Chris Oliver:
Does having a predetermined set of values best serve your team?
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Twitter: @BBALLIMMERSION
https://basketballimmersion.com
Email: coliver@basketballimmersion.com

Jul 1, 2019 • 31min
93 Shaping Your Culture in Daily Conversations with Guest Chris Oliver
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"No amount of team talks, workshops and lectures can shape a team more than the daily conversations that shape your team’s culture. I’ve become convinced that the culture on our team is formed in the conversations that take place every day.”
-Chris Oliver
In this week’s episode we are joined by Chris Oliver of BballImmersion to discuss one of the most important strategies to shape your team’s culture!
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Nate_S@BreakthroughBasketball.com
Chris Oliver
Twitter: @BBALLIMMERSION
https://basketballimmersion.com
Email: coliver@basketballimmersion.com

Jun 24, 2019 • 23min
92 How to Create an Effective Culture Manual Like Steve Kerr
Learn about how Steve Kerr created an effective culture manual. Explore the importance of capturing and organizing ideas. Discover the value of learning from others and making adjustments for future improvement.

Jun 17, 2019 • 31min
91 The Conversation with Parents Nobody is Having with Heath Eslinger
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Empathy is my willingness to put myself in someone else’s shoes.
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If someone was to start a program tomorrow, what is something that will solidify your culture?
- Establish your core values and do not waver.
What were some strategies you used for discipline?
- Punishment deals with symptoms.
- Disciplines deals with roots.
- Lectures rarely have a lot of positive impact.
- Questions lead to reflection and reflection leads to growth.
- Why are they struggling with these issues? (Advocacy Before Accountability)
Role Play in Training with Coaches
- Core Model
◦ Celebrate and Connect
◦ Organize and Outline
◦ Reflect and Review
◦ Encourage and Thank
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Jun 10, 2019 • 31min
90 Allowing Athletes to Struggle in the Areas That Matter with Heath Eslinger
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As coaches, we have to know and understand which struggles really matter.
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Struggle is age appropriate.
Struggle builds our resiliency tank.
- If you continue to bail your athlete or children out, they will lose the ability to solve problems their own as they get older.
There has to be a balance between bailing them out and making them step up to the plate.
Allowing Athletes to Struggle
- We continue to delay the consequence of bad habits.
- Create environments where kids learn implicitly.
- We’ve robbed kids of the ability to just figure things out!
- Teaching kids how to talk and walk we don’t put them through “classes”.
- They aren’t uncoachable, they just don’t know how to learn.
Advice for College Coaches
- Look for it in your recruits.
- You need to know your standards and you better not waver.
- Let people experience the consequence quickly.
- A coaching staff who was 100% in alignment and ready to back you.
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Nate_S@BreakthroughBasketball.com
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https://abetterwayathletics.com/
https://gomocs.com/news/2018/7/19/wrestling-coach-heath-eslinger-resigns.aspx?path=wr

Jun 3, 2019 • 30min
89 Creating Powerful Moments For Your Team Part 2
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How do you create moments that are big and small, moments that aren’t just at the beginning or the end of the season and really elevates a player's experience on your team?
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Shared vulnerability can help your athletes connect, whether it be through a tough workout or sharing different aspects of their life with their teammates.
Power of Moments takeaways:
- Humor is a powerful way to connect people
Powerful moments can sneak up on you.
- Athletes may remind you of powerful small moments that impacted them.
- Hearing from them about small powerful moments will make you more aware of them the next time they happen
How do you recognize that these smaller moments can have powerful impacts on your athletes?
What are some things you can do as a coach to create these small powerful moments?
- Create an environment where players can connect
- Some of these moments happen organically, but when they do, capture the recipes for these moments in order to create more later on
Negative experiences can stick out as much as those positive moments.
- Your brain will latch onto your most intense experiences.
- It will not filter out a bad versus good experience
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May 27, 2019 • 30min
88 Creating Powerful Moments For Your Team Part 1
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“Our lives are measured in moments, and defining moments are the ones that endure in our memories.”
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Building powerful moments:
Category 1: Elevation
- This moment becomes memorable because its different from other moments. It rises above other moments.
Category 2: Insight
- It’s a turning point in how we see ourselves or how we see the world. It could be a significant paradigm shift.
Category 3: Moments of Pride, Recognition, Achievement
Category 4: Moments of Connection
Get your players to drive the first day experience.
As coaches, we have to develop empathy in our athlete. We have to help them develop that skill.
3 questions you can ask your returning players
- What was your first day like? What did you feel, what were you thinking?
- What do you want the first day experience to be like for the new players coming in?
- What can you and your teammates do to create that positive experience?
No only should be make an athletes entrance into our program special, but we should equally make important their departure.
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May 20, 2019 • 30min
87 Aligning Your Style of Play with Your Purpose and Values with Radius Athletics
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What is the right strategy for our team culture?
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What are some questions that you use with coaches that help them solidify their identity and the identity of their program?
- How do YOU want your teams to play in a perfect world?
- What would that look like and describe it to me
- What do I enjoy watching and coaching?
- Encourage them to think less about the players and think more about how they want to play
- Be more proactive than reactive
The style of play can actually help us build that player-led culture.
- Encourage a more decision-based offense approach than strict play guidelines.
- When athletes make decisions instead of just complying, they gain sport knowledge and understand the game better
- Players have to understand the game in order for it to be their game
What is the hardest part of this process?
- Deleting things that don’t fit your program framework and mindset
- The hardest part is being consistent and sticking to that process even if it means losing in the short-term
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@CoachNSanderson
@radiusathletics
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Nate_S@BreakthroughBasketball.com
randy@radiusathletics.com
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May 13, 2019 • 25min
86 The Keys to a Game-Changing Off Season
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What would make you a better coach that has nothing to do with the practical or technical of your sport?
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How do you become a better coach?
- There has to be reflection on where you want to grow as a coach.
- Choose one area you’d like to improve in before the next season
- Acquire AND APPLY knowledge to your program
There is great growth when you’re doing it together.
How do I attack my off-season development?
- Target one thing in your culture or program that you want to improve
- Find ways to nurture and maintain the relationships with your athletes
We'd love to hear from you!
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Nate_S@BreakthroughBasketball.com

May 6, 2019 • 28min
85 Moving From Transactional to Transformational Leadership with Shane Sowden
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It’s so easy to worry about you wins and losses record, but the MOST important thing to ask yourself as a coach is, “How am I developing these players? Are they leaving my program better than when they came in?”
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Biggest challenge to overcome:
- How am I going to measure success if not by the scoreboard?
What were some of the resistances you may face when you transition from being a transactional leader to a transformational leader?
- Mindset shift for not only yourself, but for your coaching staff and athletes as well
- Sometimes athletes want a transactional coach
- Parents may criticize the coach because the coach has a more athlete-centered approach
Transformational coaching is being willing to sacrifice short term gain such as positive stats for long term growth.
Transformational coaching doesn’t mean losing intensity, it just means doing away with the unnecessary yelling and screaming.
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@CoachNSanderson
@coachsowden
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Nate_S@BreakthroughBasketball.com
ssowden@briercrest.ca


