Six Creative Team Building Ideas
Team building sometimes gets stuck in the clichés of the game. Very often they sound great in principle, but constraints get in the way. You run out of time, you do not want to sacrifice precious…
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Category: Team Culture
Ten Ways to Coach with More Positivity
This is a follow-up to a conversation with Burlington High girls basketball coach Pam MacKay. Coach MacKay offered several concrete examples of coaching with positivity. Here are five that can change the way that you coach…
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Why Coach through Positive Reinforcement?
I recently spoke with Burlington High girls basketball coach Pam MacKay. Coach MacKay’s team is coming off an undefeated league championship season, which propelled them to the #6 team in The Boston Globe’s end of year…
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Developing Your Own Captain Academy
Recently I wrote about utilizing Google Classroom during the upcoming season to mitigate the risks associated with COVID. One idea included a Captain Academy (or Leadership Academy) to inform aspiring captains of the expectations that come…
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Niang on Accountability, Leadership, and Adversity
This post is the second of two posts recapping Georges Niang’s journey to the NBA. In the first post, Niang analyzed the roles that his focus, motivation, and humility played. Continuing on the theme of a…
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Georges Niang on Motivation, Focus, and Humility
Georges Niang of the Utah Jazz went on a zoom recently to share his story in a Q & A format with about 15 high school coaches. In middle school, Niang was coached by Rick Gorman…
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Addressing Social Justice with Your Team
I just finished the book Everyday Antiracism. The book draws on essays about race from about 60 different teachers and professors from a variety of backgrounds. It is designed for teachers, but certain essays are broad…
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I spoke with former Monique LeBlanc recently over Zoom. Coach LeBlanc is taking over the head coach position at Brown University after spending nine years at Merrimack College. For any coach that leaves one program and…
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The Student Part of Student-Athletes
I spoke with Wilmington High School coach Jessica Robinson about being a teacher and a coach in the same school. While Coach Robinson does not have any of her players in class, she still sees them…
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Three Team Building Ideas from Clare Murphy
I follow Fontbonne basketball coach Clare Murphy on Twitter. She is a model coach on how to use social media with positivity and a little humor. Coach Murphy knows that teams that blend together off the…
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