by Mandy Green, Busy.Coach As I continue to train coaches on how to manage their time better so they can be their best for their career, their team, and for their family, I’m finding more and more that everybody hates this topic. These are pretty common responses I get all the time when I tell …
If You Want to Rekindle Their Interest
by Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services This time of year admission departments are either really happy with how their recruiting efforts are going, or they’re frantically looking for ideas on how to re-kindle interest from students who at some point this cycle demonstrated …
One Technique That Will Make You a Better Coach in 24-Hours
by Mandy Green, Busy Coach For me, I try to live as if every single day is a fresh start. Every day is a new chance for me to be better than I was yesterday. The practice of self-reflection has played a critical part in my effort to get better every day as a coach. The 5 minutes that I am …
How Can College Coaches Deal with Screaming, Disruptive Parents?
by Mike Davenport, Tudor Collegiate Strategies I still hear the voice of my first screaming parent. Even though she was bellowing to support the team, it was grating—like fingernails-down-the-chalkboard. Yelling little tips to me (“Yo, Coach, call a time out!”). They were, well, her way of being …
Important Recruiting “Tiebreakers”
by Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services Here’s something interesting that I continue to both hear and read about. There comes a time towards the end of the college decision-making process where students (and parents) start to think about, and discuss, how much of a sincere …