“I like to think that the way a coaching staff works and builds the team identity could be the main attraction to an athlete to join our team, but that is not the reality: results, facilities, reputation, level of play, players/coaches’ history of going somewhere better… All of them play […]
The end of the calendar year means that it’s the end for some Summer and Fall sports, the beginning of winter sports, but despite the schedule of your season, there’s something than (almost) never stops: recruiting. Not only because of the pandemic, but with the development of technology and the […]
There is no better way to end this “The Modern Athlete” series of articles than talking about one of the biggest concerns of our modern society: the need for individualization. While feeling the need to be ourselves and prioritizing our own lives isn’t necessarily something bad, human beings evolved and […]
If you didn’t read last weeks’ article, we introduced the three basic needs I consider essential to learn how to live with the “modern athlete”: need for understanding (the “Why’s”); need for realness (The Relationships) and lastly, the need for individualization (the “Me”). Today we will move to the second […]
After introducing the Modern Athlete topic last week, we will start talking about three different needs of this new and special generation of athletes: need for understanding (the “Why’s”); need for realness (The Relationships) and lastly, the need for individualization (the “Me”). I will dive deep into each one of […]
Last month we talked about building an identity, mostly in a collective way the embraces people together and always thinking of the “We” before the “I”. This month we will completely change it and I will be approaching a very trending but also important topic: the modern athlete and the […]
Getting to the end of “Building an Identity” topic, we are going to summarize everything we have talked about so far by putting it together into three major characteristics of this process. We have talked about how to start with your identity idea, how to communicate it and even how […]
It’s week 3 on our way to create and develop our team identity. At this point, we have decided three important things: our purpose (why we do things a certain way), our principles (what is important to us) and our goal (what we want, which is directly related with our […]
For any coach, the short-, medium- and long-term goal as a leader is to build an identity. We talked about it in the last article and simplified team identity as “what I will do to get my team to be what I want it to be”. Not only coaches, captains, […]
New month, new topic. Previously we talked about measuring performances, and how effective ways of measuring it can be crucial for player development, team success and even the creation of a long-term identity. Now, we will be picking up where we left, talking about identity, what it means, how it […]
Welcome to our last article of July, which means the last article about the off-season. So far, we’ve covered topics like evaluating performance, not letting yourself have a biased and subjective overview about performances, having a database of information or data about your season to look back at it in […]
Last week I presented you with some questions to reflect on your season and your methodology for this reflection process. Taking notes, having clear records of what went well and wrong during the season according to your feelings and interpretation of the moment. All these are great ways to become better and develop, but […]
If you haven’t read our first article “The Off Season, when champions are made” I would recommend doing it before reading the one below. It is important for some context and comprehension of our purpose for the month of July, where we discuss the best practices that coaches can have […]
At some point in our sports life, we’ve all heard this quote: “Champions are made in the off-season”. This is usually related with physical or technical abilities that can be improved by athletes during the off-season in order to have marginal gains in their performance, but have you ever thought […]