Better Men, Better Ballplayers

9 - Jeremy "Sheets" Sheetinger; "Culture, Communication, Connection"

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What advice are you giving your players during this pandemic?

  • Building the next team
  • Group me chat to build rapport with current commits and returners
  • Build the team through the summer

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    How have you been growing yourself during this time?

    • On the phone so much that its hard not to
  • Asking what guys are doing with their staff

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    What are some of your best strategies for connecting people?

    • Fighting for empathy with the other person - get on the other side of the conversation and see where they are coming from. Try to see it through their eyes
  • At the core of feel is empathy and living in the other people shoes! ***
  • Invest time, energy and focus into other people
  • Don’t let 15 seconds feel like 15 seconds!! ***
  • Work on it with the gas station attendant 

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    I hear you saying my name consistently, communicating effectively, How are you helping create better communicators?

    • Traveled around with my dad who was a motivational speaker
  • Control a crow and flow of good conversation
  • Funny moment, right into serious moment - that’s where you know you are in control
  • Test the room, and see where you got the room, and hammer on what has them and find how to get them.
  • Be more efficient with my words
  • Feel, constant evaluation mode
  • Shifts in body language, eye contact
  • Recruiting - get closer and engaged when they were hearing the speech
  • More concise and crystal clear - eliminating grey talk, no assumptions to control the narrative.
  • Deliberate choice with your language

    • You have interviewed and been around coaches of all levels from around the country, what are the top things that you took away from the thousands of hours of interviews/conversations you have done?

    • There is a system, and figured out what works for them
  • Tough thing to build a great team, and to do it consistently in incredibly hard
  • We are all chasing elite greatness, and we need to work at being really really good today!

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    How do you prioritize what are the most important things to implement into your program?

    • Always listening and always intrigued and curious
  • You take it and your rooted philosophy and take the information boil it down to the simplest form
  • You can’t change your philosophy every year
  • These things work for me, for our kids, and for our program
  • If your trying to build consistency then coach needs to be consistent

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    What is your system?

    • Still building ours
  • What got you to the middle point? Still good and bad
  • It's been really good. What are the missing points?
  • Where can I fill the gaps. Empowering the coaches
  • 3 year system, less gaps year 2 and 3 - 
  • Does not stray away from trust and love

    • How are you developing the culture of trust and love at GCC?

    • You can never land on being short sighted!
  • Call all 30 players and have 30 different conversations
  • Build back the exact same message
  • Deliberate message - get on you at 10, but love you at 20!!**
  • You don’t have to be perfect but you need to be deliberate **
  • Culture is a measurement of the environment you have created**
  • Championship teams do it this way…
  • Be the example of those expectations
  • Willingness to be vulnerable! **

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    How are you developing your players both menally and physically at GCC?

    • Meet in the classroom and teach
  • Call me “Sheets”
  • Use the classroom to make a big impact
  • Be mindful of helping each player rewrite their own story - rewire and give them responsibilities
  • Talking about stuff other than baseball

  • Do you believe that if you players are better people they will help you win at GCC?

    • 100%
  • The kids knew when I was making selfish decisions to get a better job
  • Servant leadership and not about me, it's about the players
  • The person, the student, the player and in that order of development

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    Do you look for specific traits in recruits? Turn ons and turn offs?

    • Live in the transfer world
  • Want people to leave who feel they are GCC guys
  • Vetting them on the phone
    • Talking with prior coach
    • Who is he? Baggage?
  • Get who you want, but get who we are! ***
  • What is important to you? Winning, being on a great team? Personal development?
  • Specific measurables we are looking for
  • Being coachable

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    You have seen great players from all over the country at all levels. What do those great players have in common?

    • Same as coaches, open minded and wanting more
  • Every championship team has a good catcher, arms, defense, and hitters that came through in certain moments (situationally executed)
  • They did not hate each other, generally they like to be together, and no dysfunction
  • Intrinsically motivated, desire to figure out the best version of themselves
  • They want more
  • Sacrifice is required!

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    You have also seen so many great coaches from all over the country. What do those great coaches have in common?

    • Curious 
  • There thoughts are always moveable
  • Always willing to test their theories/processes
  • Open minded to hear it for what it is
  • Listened to get better, not to respond

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    What is the best way to contact you?

    • @coachsheets3
  • [email protected]
  • 502-767-7680

    • Notes:

     

    • Come from a centered place! Can’t make a decision from the highs and lows, and always come back to center to make decisions
  • Stay away from recruits who blame others and wired from young age
  • The person, the student, the player and in that order of development
  • Find the courage to act on their own thoughts and ideas
  • At the core of feel is empathy and living in the other people's shoes! ***
  • Don’t let 15 seconds feel like 15 seconds!! ***
  • The people change the game!
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