Communicating with ‘Kids These Days’

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We hear the complaint more and more frequently in various forms. But most of the time, it starts with “Kids these days …”

The complaint revolves around teenagers – and sometimes covers an entire generation – and their phones. “Their heads are buried in the phones” … “They don’t know how to interact with people” … “They have no social skills.”

Once we learn that most of the people being criticized actually can communicate, they just do it differently now, we can start to explore ways to effectively reach them. Adopting their chosen method of communicating is a great start. [Read more…]

Two-Way Communication Helps Avoid Problems

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Coaches are pretty good about keeping up with the changes in their sport. They study games, research training methods, watch other coaches work.

They aren’t always so diligent, however, about keeping up with the off-the-field requirements of their jobs. Everyone is well-aware of the value of coach-player communication, but the players are not the only ones with which coaches need to stay connected.

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DRIVN Checks the Boxes of What Clubs Need

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When the youth soccer club Thomas Finlay was operating started to feel growing pains, he knew the club needed to be run like a small business.

And Finlay had a solid background on which to draw. He had coached in the Atlanta area. He was executive director for New Orleans Soccer Academy, and he had a degree in Economics and Political Science from Wake Forest, where he played for four years.

So, what did Finlay do to set the course for what was then called the North Mecklenburg Soccer Club? He turned to an odd source for the solution.

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