Today’s episode discusses a series of recent interactions between a dad and a coach. Dad felt the coach showed clear favoritism towards his son. The coach didn’t think it was appropriate for the dad to express his opinion.

Who was right and who was wrong? Find out what happened and learn about effective communication techniques both dad and coach could have used to engage in constructive dialogue.

00:00 - Introduction

01:35 - Setting the scene

02:35 - Parent initiates communication with the coach

03:10 - Dad’s mistakes explained

04:15 - Using effective communication techniques

05:30 - Sample of an effective email to the coach

06:15 - Improvements the coach could have made

06:50 - What happened in Game 4?

07:30 - Post game events

08:25 - Parents don’t lose the right to ask questions because they didn’t volunteer

10:00 - Move players around in the batting order to help the develop

12:15 - My way or the highway 

13:20 - A better approach

14:25 - Free template to organize your game day roster

14:50 - Recap

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