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March 13, 2017

The 4 Cornerstones Of Championship Culture – Part 6 Of 8- Leadership Development

‘If your dreams don’t scare you- you’re not dreaming big enough’ – Chasing the Lion

The 4 Cornerstones of Championship Culture – WYC is excited to partner with Upward Sports to kick off 2017 with an exciting new way for your to raise your coaching game for you and your coaches!

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4th Cornerstone – Developing Leaders

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This week we have the privilege of being joined by TJ Rosene, head basketball coach and 3x national coach of the year at Emmanuel College, director of coach development at PGC Basketball, and co-host of the Hardwood Hustle podcast.

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Captains

TJ had a very unique answer when I asked him how his teams choose captains. He said they don’t. I was very interested in this idea, in fact I wrote a previous blog post about this: click here.

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When leaders arise who he wouldn’t have chosen – he is honest with them and works to develop them and train them how to be a better leader. He is also honest about what the 2 or 3 behaviors are that will affect their teammates adversely if they don’t work on improving them or eliminating them.

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Leadership development

The first step is asking the players who wants to lead. They create levels of leadership around 4 traits: Character, Courage, Consistency, Communication. They define levels 0 to 3 with tangible steps on to how to reach level 3 for each characteristic, which is hard to attain.

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Our special thanks to our corporate partner for this series – Upward Sports- check them out at upward.org!

March 13, 2017

The Culture Journey Week #23 – The Bus Trip

Week 23

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Regular Season week #2

Positive Energy

I continued what I have affectionately self-named ‘Coach Craig’s Goofy Games‘ to start each practice.

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This week’s best game:Great Teammate Tips Challenge

After one of our seniors shared the 2 new tips for the week from The Hard Hat, we broke into 4 teams: freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors. I gave them each a page from the sketch pad which we use to write the tips on (by the way – love this sketch pad I bought for $14 on Amazon: link) and gave them each a Sharpie and asked them to write down as many of the 8 teammate tips they could remember. The correct number ranged from 3 to 7 (the seniors obviously had an advantage since they are reading the book.) It was good to get the groups brainstorming together, plus put the emphasis on how much are they really listening to these tips being presented by the seniors.

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Culture Update – The Bus Trip

This weekend we had 1 of our 2 bus trips, a 3 hour ride over to Knoxville to play 2 varsity games and 1 JV game. I had been thinking about this for some time, because last year our bus trips were a bit shocking to me how immature and disrespectful much of the conversation was. We discussed this as a coaching staff, and decided rather than trying to ‘police’ the conversation, to instead fill the time with productive activity. We brought a DVD with the 2015 Div II lacrosse national championship game which was 1 hour 45 minutes long and played that as soon as we left. Then we spent the last hour bringing up the different position groups to the front of the bus with the coaches to discuss the gameplan for the day. This seemed to work really well and our mindset getting off the bus seemed to be much more focused and excited to play great lacrosse vs. last year where they were just goofing off and not focused. The results on the field paid off as well as we played a great first half and won the first game.

The return bus trip was less organized but we stopped for pizza then most of the boys fell asleep as it was a long day and we were all pretty exhausted. Overall it was a night and day better experience vs. last year.

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We also continue to have the seniors presenting 2 of the teammate tips from Jon Gordon’s The Hard Hat, this weeks we covered points 7 and 8:

7 – Do it for your team, not for applause

8 – Show you are committed

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Have a great week and keep fighting for your culture everyday!

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I am excited to walk this journey with you. I welcome any feedback, ideas, and suggestions you might have as you read through this. You are also welcome to share this with any other coaches you think could benefit from it, and please have them email me at [email protected] if they would like to be added to this email list.

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If you are interested in diving deeper on building culture we have started a mastermind group that meets the first and third Wednesday of each month at 12:30 pm EST, see the details at: winningyouthcoaching.com/the-culture-bus-mastermind/. It is exciting to be with likeminded world-changers.

March 13, 2017

WYC 110 – Championship Culture Part 6 – TJ Rosene talks Chasing the Lion & Leadership Development

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TJ Rosene is a 3x National Coach of the year. He has already compiled over 300 wins as a college coach and has most recently put together 8 straight 20-win seasons. TJ also serves as the Director of Coach Development for PGC Basketball, and co-hosts the Hardwood Hustle podcast.

Twitter: @CoachTJRosene

Websites: pgcbasketball.com; hardwoodhustle.com

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Listen Now:

Listen on iTunes: iTunes link

Listen on Stitcher: Stitcher link

Listen on Google Play Music: Google Play link

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‘If your dreams don’t scare you- you’re not dreaming big enough’ – Chasing the Lion

1st steps in building culture

The first step is believing
Then define key cornerstones

Buy-in & Building great teammates

Have your players brainstorm about what the characteristics are of the best teammates. Then ask the players whether you have their permission to hold them accountable to those standards.

Empowering players

The best time to have players figuring things out on their own is when there is less on the line. That’s true of lower levels of youth sports. That’s true of early in the season even at higher levels of athletics.

Communication needs 3 things:

Truth
Love
Transparency

Start each practice talking for 5 to 8 minutes

This helps everyone to get to know each other and
My commitment Monday
Tough Tuesday
Thankful Thursday

Communication – Life skills

They have their athletes do the following when ordering at a fast-food restaurant:
- Eye contact
- Call the person by name
- Ask them how their day is going
- Express gratitude

Caz McCaslin’s 2 minute Coaching tips

Tough love – Set standards that build not just great athletes but great leaders
Remember the off the court impact you have is more important than what happens on the court

Captains

TJ’s teams have never elected captains. He just lets the natural leaders emerge.
When leaders arise who he wouldn’t have chosen – he is honest with them and works to develop them and train them how to be a better leader. He is also honest about what the 2 or 3 behaviors are that will affect their teammates adversely if they don’t work on improving them or eliminating them.

Leadership development

The first step is asking the players who wants to lead
They create levels of leadership around 4 traits: Character, Courage, Consistency, Communication
They define levels 0 to 3 with tangible steps

Connecting with kids

Sometimes you have to draw lines. It’s scary because we don’t want to alienate a player, but it is important.

The One that got away

Losing a national championship game – TJ had not prepared himself for what could go wrong.
You have to learn from the adversity and not live in the adversity

Best Stolen Idea

Don Meyer – Sent TJ a note and book within 48 hours of his passing. TJ learned that you’re never too big for any situation or person.
Be a lifelong learner!

PGC Basketball Clinics

10,000 kids go through their camps every summer – check them out at: pgcbasketball.com

Parting Advice

Keep perspective. Define your legacy.

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January 13, 2016

WYC 067 – Leadership Development – Adam Bradley talks Lead ‘Em Up

Adam is an expert in leadership & character development speaking and training coaches all over the country. He is the founder of Leademup – Lead ‘Em Up is a turn-key sports leadership and character program designed to equip coaches with the tools to implement a dynamic leadership program. They provide coaches the season-long curriculum and teaching materials to lead their team every week through a powerful 30-minute session. The Lead ‘Em Up curriculum includes teaching lessons, engaging team assignments, week-long player exercises and fun interactive game dynamics from their friends at Game On Nation.

Adam also currently serves as a Leadership Coach for various sports teams in the Baltimore/Washington area, and is the co-host of the nationally recognized Hardwood Hustle podcast.

Leademup

Website: leademup.com

Facebook: /LeadEmUp

Twitter: @Lead_Em_Up

Hardwood Hustle Podcast

Website: hardwoodhustle.com

Facebook: /HardwoodHustle

Twitter: @Hardwood_Hustle

Listen Now:

Listen in ITunes: Itunes link

Listen in Stitcher: Stitcher link

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‘The drug of choice amongst the youth of today is popularity’ – Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church in California

Hardwood Hustle Podcast

Website: hardwoodhustle.com
Designed for players, coaches, and parents
Episodes are either basketball focused or hustle related
New episodes every Monday and Thursday

Character development

Adam teaches kids that being cool and being a leader don’t have to be either/or, you can do both
Many kids would rather be cool than be great, but they don’t realize that it’s when they become great that they become cool
Think about the word the kids will call each other: ‘Try-hard.’ Why is that a bad thing?

Lead ‘Em Up

Website: leademup.com
Adam partnered with Game On to gamify his leadership curriculum so that he can really engage the kids and get them excited to learn how to be leaders. Game On’s created an acronym for gaming, people are drawn to games because of the MILE: Mystery, Incentive, Laughter, Empowerment. During the games – they often forget to try acting cool.
Lead Em Up has developed a plug-and-play curriculum you can use with your teams – It’s a 12 week program with a new theme each week to be done in a 30 minute session with your team.

Parting Advice

The first thing you have to evaluate as a coach – is how much you really care