By Jeremy Tiers, Senior Director of Admissions Services 2 minute readWhat do you think the average person’s attention span is?Studies show that it has decreased from twelve seconds to eight seconds in the past two decades – that’s one second lower than a goldfish.Our brains just …
The Cultural Mindset Shift of Being a Transfer Student-Athlete
One of the predictions I made several years ago when talk of a mechanism to ease the college sports transfer process was that it would create a cultural of free agency among college student-athletes, as well as coaches.And that's exactly what's happened.Don't get me wrong, it's not all …
Areas of Recruiting Coaches Need to Track
by Dan Christensen, Tudor Collegiate StrategiesAs coaches we track a lot of stats.How fast did our athletes run or swim? How many turnovers did we have in our last game? What was our 4th quarter shooting percentage last year?While this is common, I think tracking recruiting data tends …
When Do You Do Your Best Work?
by Mandy Green, Busy CoachThink for a minute about when you do your best work. Or, think about past times when you felt that you were very productive, and you got a lot of things done. I’ll bet that one common trait of all these experiences is that you felt fully focused, fully engaged by …
Stop Using These Three Words
By Jeremy Tiers, Senior Director of Admissions Services 2 minute readConsidering how hard it is to get and keep another person’s attention these days, it’s important to know which words and phrases to avoid.There are three words in particular that a lot of admissions counselors and …