Eight Tips For Building Positive Relationships With Parents

It is very important in today's sports culture to make sure that you keep positive relationships with your parents.   To get the most out of your kids, having the support of their parents can go a long way.  Parents are more involved and vocal in their children's athletics these days, so keeping them properly informed on their child and the team's development is beneficial.

The website, CoachAD.com has some really good articles and information on building and running a successful program, and they recently posted an article on how to build and maintain positive relationships with the parents in your program.  Below are the 8 tips that they gave.  You can read about them more in-depth here.

1. Have a parent-coach communication plan in place.

2. Communicate your plan to parents, players and coaches

3. Build a solid level of trust.

4. Give parents ownership in your program. 

5. Be clear and concise when you engage in parent-coach communication.

6. Make sure you create an environment in which parents feel that you are approachable.

7. Take a solution-based approach when confronted with any issue.

8. The perspective of parents might differ from the coach’s.

References:

Eight Tips For Building Positive Relationships With Parents.  Coach & AD.  Retrieved on April 18, 2017.