Coaching Culture

6. Holding Office Hours- Opening Lines of Communication 7. Weekly Emails- Using them to continue the dialogue on healthy sports parenting!

3. Start a Conversation About Healthy Sports Parenting 4. Ask Parents For Their Thoughts 5. Create Standards of Excellence and Commitments for Parents

1. Building Relationships with Authentic Vulnerability 2. Communicating and Modeling Our Core Values

This episode, Nate discusses... 1. Lessons Learned from Past Mistakes 2. Clearly Communicating What Really Matters in the Sports 3. Opening Up Communication between the Coach and Parent 4. Presenting Beneficial Information for Parents 5. Creating a Positive Experience for the Sports Parent

Special Guest Nate Sanderson is a State Championship Coach in Iowa and works as the Director of Product Development at Breakthrough Basketball. More importantly, Nate puts character first in coaching and is intentional in everything he does on and off the court. In part 1, Nate discusses: 1. The problems of a “dealing with parents” mentality 2. A special parent meeting format to start “working with parents” 3. Opening lines of communication 4. Shaping parent expectations 5. Setting some boundaries

What are your non-negotiables as a coach? We can do a lot to empower those we lead by having them set standards for the team, but we still need to have some of our own standards. Can you enforce those rules out of love and without judgment of the person?

Coaches do you value your values? Who we select for the team, who we recruit, and who we play says a lot about what we value. Are we reinforcing our core values as a coach? Or are we just committed to getting the result we want in the next game?

Episode 8 provides examples of some special ways to develop leaders and tap into the intrinsic motivation of the team by giving them a voice!

Running sprints and other conditioning are GOOD things. When we use them as punishment, we make them BAD things! Episode 7 discusses the damaging consequences of using conditioning as punishment and beneficial ways to condition in a practice setting.

The differences are subtle in using boundaries and consequences instead of rules and punishment, but the impact is transformational in the culture and character development of those we lead. When we fail to use boundaries and consequences we nurture a sense of entitlement and allow other people's problems to become our problems.