by Mike Davenport, CoachingSportsToday.comDo they hear only half (or less) of what you say?Is it hard for them to concentrate during practice?Are you wondering why they don’t respond to your emails?If so, then when I say “attention is your new battlefront” you understand. Right now, …
Coaching Sports and Social Media Safety
by Mike Davenport, CoachingSportsToday.com You sit down at your desk — there’s a call on your cell phone. As you answer you look over and there’s a voice mail on your office phone. Then your email goes nuts. Your Twitter stream starts rolling. What’s with all those freaky things happening on your …
8 Ways To Keep Your Energy Up During The Day
by Mandy Green, CoachingProductivityStrategies As coaches, we are paid to produce results with our teams. To get the results we seek, we need to be prepared to perform as a coach at our best all day long. To perform at our creative and confident best, our best influence, our best strength, …
Create a System to Write Recruiting Messages Faster
by Mandy Green, Coaching Productivity Strategies As College coaches, we write a lot. We write to juniors and seniors we are recruiting or have already committed, we write to parents, or we are writing to youth coaches who have players we want. If you just sit down and try to come up with a …
What Your Mom Never Told You About Hollow Recruiting
by Mike Davenport, CoachingSportsToday.com Moms are great. Yet … sometimes they don’t tell us everything. For example, I can hear a coach’s mom saying, “Dearie, when you’re a coach you will serve an important role in our society.” Okay, that could happen, right? Sure. But I wouldn’t expect the mom …