by Tim Nash
Everyone has their own ideas about leadership, and there is no shortage of ways to explain or define it.
This way, however, seems better than most: “Good leaders create an environment in which leaders emerge.”
The proper environment within your team can help develop leadership qualities in your players, but the right factors can also provide a leadership platform for players who at first glance seem to have little or no leadership abilities.
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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