by Tim Nash
Listening is an art form, and it may be quickly becoming a lost art.
In today’s culture, finding someone to blame, shifting responsibility, making excuses and arguing in general seem to be required skills. Winning an argument is more important to some that accepting responsibility and learning from it. We tend to listen in order to prepare ourselves to get the best of whoever is talking to us.
Simply put people tend to listen to respond, not to understand.
by Tim Nash
What are some common mistakes coaches make? We asked around and found that most of them have to do with communication. When to communicate, how to effectively communicate, what to communicate and what not to.
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It’s that time again for summer workouts. Coaches are sending them out to prospective student-athletes, hoping they are strictly followed so their players report to pre-season training in top condition.
The programs, most likely arrive in the player’s email boxes with a PDF attached. As a coach, do you ever wish you could simply put workout items and details on the player’s calendar with diagrams and videos attached and a method to see if the workout was followed?
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