Mike Davenport, CoachingSportsToday.comI love gadgets, especially apps for my iPhone.I’ve been fiddling with one for several weeks, it’s called SleepCenter.I turn on the app and slide the phone under my mattress. Using the magic that lives in the center of my phone, SleepCenter measures …
6 Little (Secret) Steps To Improve Your Coaching This Week
by Mike Davenport, CoachingSportsToday.comWhen I started coaching, I longed for the BIG-SECRET.That one huge secret thing that was going to blast my coaching to the next level.I didn’t know what it was, but I knew that it was out there … somewhere.But over the years I learned the …
7 Simple Rules For Dealing With Difficult People
by Mike Davenport, CoachingSportsToday.comYou’ve seen it … maybe up close. Maybe too close.The Crazy strikes, and Whammo — the person in front of you stops acting rationale. He loses his ability to reason. She becomes one of those people that you just have to get away from. They become …
You Get Hired To Get Fired
by Martin J. Greenberg and Steven D. Gruber, The Gamebreakers, LLCIn the college-coaching world, the current job environment can be summed up by the often-quoted adage “you get hired to get fired.” This notion has never been more accurate. Job security is essentially a misnomer, as coaches are …
How To Handle The Coaching Paparazzi
by Mike Davenport, CoachingSportsToday.comFor my first six years of coaching, I was an assistant. During that time I could hide behind the apron of the head coach.The exact micro-second I took over my own program things changed. I could no longer hide. Everything I did was magnified. …