When your team is in a slump, players and coaches can dread coming to practice. If what you’re coaching isn’t resonating, maybe it’s time to shake things up a little to reconnect with your team.

Today’s episode provides a variety of ways you can add variety to your routine by introducing different ways for your players to improve their tactics and techniques, along with using unique motivational methods to help them once again find the joy of the game.

00:00 - Introduction

01:40 - Identifying when things aren’t clicking

02:35 - It’s not personal

03:00 - Help me help you

04:00 - People first - athletes second

06:10 - Coaching isn’t linear

08:05 - Improving tactics and techniques

14:00 - Breaking up your routine

17:10 - Remembering moments, not scores

18:25 - Ace of the Game

21:40 - Game day award tally

23:20 - Helmet stickers & point system

26:40 - I scream you scream we all scream for ice cream

29:10 - Connections with players

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Today’s episode discusses a series of recent interactions between a dad and a coach. Dad felt the coach showed clear favoritism towards his son. The coach didn’t think it was appropriate for the dad to express his opinion.

Who was right and who was wrong? Find out what happened and learn about effective communication techniques both dad and coach could have used to engage in constructive dialogue.

00:00 - Introduction

01:35 - Setting the scene

02:35 - Parent initiates communication with the coach

03:10 - Dad’s mistakes explained

04:15 - Using effective communication techniques

05:30 - Sample of an effective email to the coach

06:15 - Improvements the coach could have made

06:50 - What happened in Game 4?

07:30 - Post game events

08:25 - Parents don’t lose the right to ask questions because they didn’t volunteer

10:00 - Move players around in the batting order to help the develop

12:15 - My way or the highway

13:20 - A better approach

14:25 - Free template to organize your game day roster

14:50 - Recap

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While walking by a house league practice the other day I became sad when I saw a coach having his players in a single-file line while hitting ground balls to one player at a time. I saw that and wanted to rush out there and offer a few tips to that coach.

That’s where this episode comes in. In today’s mid-inning broadcast I share why the infamous ground ball line is bad and offer several options on how that coach could have improved his practice INSTANTLY by making it more effective and fun without needing any more equipment.

00:00: Introduction

01:35: Setting the scene

02:45: Explaining the inefficiencies

03:55: Effects of players standing around

04:55: Dead air

06:15: Instant improvement #1

07:30: Instant improvement #2

08:30: Instant improvement #3

09:15: Using proximity to build connections with players

10:55: Instant improvement #4

12:10: Instant improvement #5

13:50: Increase your efficiency by 400% in < 3 minutes

15:55: Other options with a hitting net

16:20: Keep in contact with our podcast

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