Hear The Message

COACHES: Make sure your players understand the why behind the coaching and the criticism and try to coach in a way that inspires and motivates the.

ATHLETES: Hear the message and learn and apply the instruction. Pay more attention to what they are saying than how they are saying it.

PARENTS: Help your athletes understand the message and the intent, or why, behind the message.

Everyone has an important role to play, everyone has to be on the same page and running the same race (shared vision).

If everybody can't get on the same page, then they might need to get on a different team.  At the least, work to find a way to get something positive out of it.  

We can learn something from every situation.  It might be that we learn what we don't want from a coach, or what kind of parents we don't want as part of our program.