Team Leadership

*Figure out what you can be great at and create separation*

Building Leaders and Teams

Core Principles

• Trust your own work (especially when it matters most)
  • ‘The Fearless Mind’ – by Dr. Craig Manning
• Not necessarily adding to game, but to drop the negative stuff
  • Write down what you want to drop
  • Build off what you know/are already great at
  • Mile Run – 5:30min – 4 laps
  • Break season into segments like 8 games
• Keep building a can-do mind set!
• Potential & Training 
  • Interference = Performance – Think about what could be potential interference  

Create Clarity

• Leadership – To make others better
• Fun – Taking something that’s hard to do and doing it well – Example = Cal Baptist joining the WAC
• Coachable – Eye contact, Verbal or Physical cues, Honest effort to do and execute what you were just coached to do

Things to Cut Through

• False Notion – Everyone should be coached the same? NO – Players might say YES, but….
  • Everyone learns differently
  • Coach each of them to the best of our ability
• Difference between Agreement & Understanding
  • “It’s not about agreement but an understanding”
• Define Culture in 2 words/things – Coaches and Players
  • Demanding & Positive – Hit both everyday
  • Want players to see this as well

Concepts

• Do you have a proactive disciplinary set in your program?
  • Iron Man – 1^stday training – 1^stday of practice
    • Build standard for players to strive
    • Mark if they don’t make it
  • – Gladiator – 5 Events
    • Mile / Bench Press / Pull-ups / 20 suicides in 10 min / NASH (NBA Combine drill)
    • No meetings / Board is tangible data in preseason
• Create Speaking Opportunities
  • 5 seniors deliver message last 5 games of season
    • Lets them carry your culture
    • Lets them go from critique to leader
• Goal Setting
  • Get to goals after you get practices under belt
  • Set 3 tangible goals as a Team
• Balance between Aggression & Poise
  • You can blow off steam but don’t be poisonous
  • Define the line
  • Lose poise – Have game plan
• Difference between Losing & Getting Beat 
  • There is a difference 
  • Don’t show up ready / weren’t emotionally ready to compete / couldn’t fight through adversity = WE LOST
  • Other team out performed you / yet your guys did all they could = WE GOT BEAT
• Be a Thermostat Athlete 
  • Maintains temperature / dictates temperature of emotion
• Bounce Back Locker Room
  • Each game is just as important as the next
  • Scoreboard can’t always be beaten
  • Are guys ready to handle adversity?
• Excellence Hall
  • Practice Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday off the floor
  • Gives coaches chance to meet with players
  • Bring in guest speakers
  • Shows you can prioritize academics
  • Good for health of team
• How you Manage Film
  • Most S/A watch film in depressed state
  • You want collaboration – It won’t be with 15
  • Need 7 or less for collaboration (by positions)
  • Train 3/1 – 3 things you did well / 1 to get better
  • Ask team to spot 3/1 and share it
• Role Definition
  • Player Card – Shape their role – some are Intangible (creates clarity on within team)
• Getting Better
  • When you get to season, do not complain about talent 
  • How do we get this guy better?
  • How do we put this guy into position to be successful?
  • Steal everything you can & make it your own
  • Demonstrate the things that are getting better everyday on & off the court
• Recruiting
  • If guy doesn’t have an offer, he’s not being recruited
  • Not just a phone call or letter, but an OFFER – player needs to know the difference
  • Keeps player/team together
• Strip away the extra things
  • Keep things consistent & don’t add things as season progresses