by Mike Davenport, CoachingSportsToday.com Asked yesterday for a process to succeed at coaching, my answer went something like this: 1. Look. Success depends on a coach having a vision for the future. A critical step in building that future is to know the present. To do that you must look. This is …
Darth Vader Wouldn’t Make It As A Coach
by Mike Davenport, CoachingSportsToday.comCoaches have two levels of employment. The first is the job. The second is the career.There are ways to kill both.Job-killers are actions which cause you to be fired. Career-killers are actions which make it improbable (or impossible) to get …
10 New Things To Fire Up Your Coaching Experience This Week
by Mike Davenport, CoachingSportsToday.com So let’s talk coaching … Below are 10 things I thought could positively impact your coaching experience this week: 1. Having a positive peer group can make or break you. Here’s how to, and how not to build a good one. 2. When your life is …
The Year Of Soulless Coaching, And How I Stopped
by Mike Davenport, CoachingSportsToday.comI leaned against the wall. It’d been a terrible season.Nothing helped. Whatever I did made it worse.It wasn’t them. Wasn’t the kids. It was me.Been there?Coaching is hard. Not all the time, but a lot of the time. This time it was wicked …
The Other Reality Of Your Coaching Experience
by Mike Davenport, CoachingSportsToday.comI’ve found that most coaches expect an experience at either end of this scale:Those expectations are usually based on strong reasons such as:All my best athletes have graduated/transferred/quit/moved We have the best recruiting-class …