Director of Sports Performance at Howard University, Daniel Bellamy brings his skills, family, and his voice to Texas in his new role at UTSA.

During my NFL internship, I learned to incorporate a lot of sports performance into rehab.

Teacher

PT clinic

Arena Football head AT

Track and field coach

I wanted to spend more time with my patients

So I took an assistant job at Howard University

First task as the director of Sports Performance

Hiring a strength and conditioning coach that would work for an FBS coach

The best ability is availability – they need to be functional and healthy before they can work on performance

Patient care

Athletic Performance

Data and research

Education

Trust 

Honesty

Respect

Integrity

Communication

Each team member needs to understand the goal and how we can work together.  

What is the benefit to each member?

Wellness surveys can help coordinate care as well.

Shared information and language in Sports Performance

Progression / regression charts

Shared Projects and initiatives in Sports Performance

BRING MART PEOPLE TOGETHER AND ALLOW THEM TO DO THEIR THING

Bottom Line

Strength and conditioning’s goal should always be to ensure safety during the workouts.

Compliance comes from understanding and is the biggest key for the athletes completing the RPE and RTT surveys

Ted Sperlak, NSCA Talk on Sports Performance Model​

https://youtu.be/EKI7rDYWLrI​

Article to Read on Recovery Periodization: Mujika et al., (2018). An integrated multifactorial approach to periodization for optimal performance in individual and team sports.pdf​

Article to Read on Periodization and Rehabilitation: Periodization and PT.pdf

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As a collegiate coach, Dr. Kimberly Stein had to communicate the science of recovery and nutrition to her teams.

Being a pioneer in the NFL Kevin Luhrs had to communicate the science behind the small changes to improve player performance.

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– We definitely have to convince people or sell it at times

– Like Dr. Stein said, science is not black an white, it is evolving

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KS: – www.GSSIweb.org – hands down

KL: Sports Science Exchange or Gatorade performance partner website

Dr. Kimberly Stein -@KimWhiteStein

Kevin Luhrs –

Jeremy Jackson – MrJeremyJackson

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Dr. Mercedes Himmons believes the Diversity and Inclusion committees of her state organization are doing a really good job. She has worked hard to set the example and is now leading in the PATS organization

I am sassy, always wore dresses and I am family-oriented.

I am a first-generation college graduate.

Dream trips:

Paris and Rome

Turks and Caicos

Relationships

Having multiple people regardless of background all in the same place.

Make sure all of those people are heard and seen and their perspective is taken into account.

The word belonging is a good fit instead of inclusion.

PATS is doing a good job of trying to close the gap.

Racism is a public health issue

Be good humans to each other

The majority of our patient population as ATs is nonwhite but the majority of the ATs are white, so there is some disconnect.

Show that you are willing to learn and understand.

First I would like to take the temperature of the room.

Everyone matters and should have a voice.

Keep the patient at the center of our focus.

Listening to understand and not just to reply.

It would depend on the demographic

Retention is very important, what are you doing to keep the diversity?

People need to know that they are going to step in and do the right thing to help eradicate the negative behavior.

Dr. Himmons: @MemoriaVitae

Victoria Morris: @Morris_ATC

Jeremy: @SportsMedicineBroadcast on IG

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Amy Hamilton will be taking over GLATA which is now two different districts in the NATA. Challenges and troubles will arise but with a good team in place, the transition should be easier.

Amy Hamilton, what are your thoughts as you begin to dive into the presidential role leading 2 districts in a few short months?

Look at the talent in the room and allow them to use their skills and empower the next generation of leaders.

I lead by example in my day job

A large number of our staff are involved in leadership.

Amy: one of my biggest passions is looking at ATs place in healthcare.

It has not been a barrier for me because I have not let it be one.

I do not want a seat at a separate table, I want a seat at “that table”

We will have a lot more people involved and represented in AT now.  We basically doubled our positions available.

I look at it from a regional rep’s point of view.

We have a lot more opportunities for concerns to be voiced.

We needed to develop future leaders. We had to bring back the Young Professionals committee.

We need leaders with diversity in their leadership experience.

Amy – [email protected]

Patrick – @Patc1996

John –  Twitter

Jeremy – Twitter

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Admiral McRaven’s ten simple rules for life start with Make Your Bed and mark that first task off your list.

What does attention to detail say about you as a leader? 

John: The little things add up over time. Attention to detail means you have attention to the goal. 

Why is it important to have a strong network of people who support you? 

John: Family to take risks and ground you. 

John: Foster an attitude for success, not misery! 

John: Being a leader means always striving to choose the right over the wrong and being ok with the internal dilemma that is within. 

What dark times have you gone through in your life? 

Jeremy: Having our first foster placement taken from us at the same time I was worried about losing my job 

How do you encourage people when things get rough?

John: What leadership styles or theories best suit individual followers? We can’t always be the rah-rah person… 

Texas 2014 Commencement Speech regarding Make Your Bed

Contact Us:

John Ciecko

Jeremy Jackson

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John Ciecko and Dr. Matt Kutz share what they are doing to take leadership at home seriously.

Intentionally scheduling my time is critical for me.

Johns daily schedule

ATs tend to stop practicing leadership when they are not in their AT role.

Leadership is not something we put on and off, it something we are.

Leadership is something we take with us everywhere we go.

Dr. Kutz homeschooled because he wanted to teach them some very specific skills

Americans are one of the only cultures that do not celebrate life milestones

“Communication is a result of something else, not a goal”

– Dr. Matt Kutz

When kids come into the picture your values change.

Management shines best when the situation has occurred before.  It really struggles when a situation is novel.  That is when Leadership shines.

V.U.C.A. leadership world.

Authoritarian leadership is not dictatorship. “It is ok to say, Do this because I said so.”

“As your team and relationships grow, the techniques you use early on do not work later on.”

Becoming a modern-day knight

Kids had to do book reports to earn money it was a great way to expose them to skills and knowledge.

A fun song from the musical Hamilton, “What Comes Next” is the line we are focused on for the start of the 2021 leadership in AT podcast series.

Thanks Patrick Ohaver for putting it all together.

You have wanted to move up to a leadership position in the company, the school, or even a professional organization.

Just as a young America made the leap into independence, now you are given the opportunity to lead.

That is the question on this episode..

Patrick– As Former supervisor for a hospital Outreach based program I was given the task of leading approximately 25 athletic trainers. Some of these athletic trainers were my peers and that in itself is a difficult part to lead your own peers.I really resonated with this song in Hamilton as I knew it would be difficult to lead however I did not realize the full extent until I was in that situation. It is difficult to lead and not just your peers but to lead a cohesive group of athletic trainers.

 I was fortunate enough to have mentors that were in leadership positions and I observe them through my career taking mental notes on what I would do in certain situations how I would overreact how I would respond however I learned so much during my tenure as the supervisor of Athletic Training Services and dealt with a lot of specific leadership challenges. 

Patrick — Another point in King George’s song what comes next really struck me was when your people say they hate you don’t come crawling back to me. Now as a recovering people pleaser, I strive to make everyone feel Equitable and try to look for the win-win. However, during my time I discovered win-win just doesn’t work out sometimes. When you have to lead a large group you are not going to please everyone now. I would not say that my employees “hated me “ however some decisions that were made did not meet with high favor.

I can recall a time when we sent out an employee satisfaction survey. It was a sort of 360-degree look at our leadership team.

 Through the eyes of the employees and I was expecting an overall positive response however, the amount of negative response was shocking and really caused a point of reflection and revaluation of my leadership style and our leadership team’s style.

 I was fortunate enough to work with two other athletic trainers in the leadership team. We assisted each other and each had our own strengths and weaknesses in the leadership team. However, that employee survey was a watershed moment for me and my leadership style.

George Washington states – “Winning was easy, leading is harder”-

This point in the musical also echoes a similar thought that getting to the top may be easy however leading is harder.

Leading your peers is very difficult. We can look back at a recent Facebook post in the Secondary School group where an employee was ranting to her “friend” who was in an administrative position about the organization. I am not sure what was said or how it was said however the other party deemed it necessary to inform her superiors and her subordinate was reprimanded.

There’s a good book called “From buds to boss” by Guy Harris and Kevin Eikenberry.  It’s a good book and help me get some perspective in my early supervisory times.

Being the boss isn’t all Fame and Glory. Some people want that prestige and that title however, if you’re not prepared, then it may be more of a detriment than an aid.

Were you ever on your own?  I recently heard from a long-time listener Caleb who was out in China as an AT and he was on his own for a while.  Share your story with us.

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John – Twitter

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Is Leadership Curriculum a good way to learn to lead? Can it be added to our current AT course requirements?

Curriculum is the hardest way to learn leadership – there is an absence of the practice of AT

“We tend to protect them from the leadership process in their clinical experiences”

The only way it can work is if we integrate them together into the clinical experience.

Trial and error – best most effective and efficient way

Observation

JBY: It is more outcome-based.  It is easy to track clinical outcomes.

There are so many types of leadership.

Situational leadership or contextual leadership is critical.

In the current BOC practice areas, only about 2 of 8 deal with sports

How do we develop good leaders?

What makes a good leader?

Are we putting people in the right places to lead?

Energy bus

The military does this really well

They capitalize on the problem-solving process.

If you look at the CAATE and look at the math, .05% of ATs are in leadership as program directors.

MK: we need to be better at recognizing the reality there is a small percentage of us in leadership roles.

If we think adding clinical skills to our profession is going to change our profession we are sorely mistaken.

People want to know how we can help improve and all we have to offer is a new way to tape an ankle…

The BOC states we have to have skills in leadership…not knowledge of…

We have to be able to change hats.

We are 20 years behind compared to other healthcare professions as far as leadership.

Nursing is by far the leader in my opinion in the leadership curriculum.

We are making a big mistake as a profession by not putting more eggs in this basket.

MK: We get scared when we go to the literature.

Leadership is not like a clinical skill

It is not a checkbox item.

Instead of a concrete objective, there should be a certain number of leadership exposures per semester.

Develop a leadership philosophy.

JBY: New 2020 standards have shifted towards outcomes.  How are you documenting them?

Checking the boxes is a managerial task, not a leadership task.

Self Assessment – SWAT analysis – how did I move this pile of beans to the other pile.

Operationalizing Leadership is hit or miss.

The MAT is designed for an AT student to ENTER the profession.

Some of the ways we have it is an AT Student Society

We have liaison positions in our program.

Being on a committee at various levels.

When everything is outcome-based how do we say “Leadership was performed”

MK: I hand out sticky notes and ask and ask them to put 3 words for each LEAD

That leaves us with hundreds of words dealing with leadership.

Now we need to make an operational definition from all of these words.

It depends is a real answer as long as you are not using it as a cop-out.

Leadership is a philosophical construct versus a hard skill.

MK: Leadership is not volunteerism

JBY: Education is a business

The student is our customer product and asset…it is so unique.

Why is PA more acceptable than AT in the medical community?

JBY: When students come in I tell them I am interested in people who are looking to be leaders and agents of change.  We will make you into good ATs, but we need you to be the change.

The leader needs contextual intelligence to be really good.

Management is checking the boxes

Leadership is influence

MK: At FIU we focus on helping them answer the “it depends” question.

We are developing leadership behaviors to influence the world, not just AT.

We need to add value to SOCIETY as a whole.

MK: leadership is not being the most productive person in the room…it is someone who navigates complexity.

What Comes Next – Lessons From Hamilton the Musical

Leadership AT Home

Make Your Bed

Amy Hamilton

Dr. Matt Kutz

Dr. Josh Yellen

John Ciecko

Jeremy Jackson

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Risk Reduction is the key to preventing ACL injuries. Chris “Tex” McQuilkin joins us to share how Power Athlete HQ is building better movers.

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Movement is going to be our common language

Empower your performance

Non-Contact Injury Risk Reduction

Create a common language between coaches, strength coaches, parents, and athletes

In sports, none of the movements are isolated, but in the weight room, we train them as isolated planes.

The frontal plane is the back injury prevention lane

We need valuable scalable tools that use common language so the coaches can correct it easily without the Medical Professional there

Train them to see movement

Stu McGill’s Big 3

Assessment – each set and rep in the weight room should be used to assess.

Integrate correctives into a program

Rename it if you need to so they take it seriously

Why – enhance athleticism

Why – work mitigating factors

I need it difficult in a controlled environment so that I can trust they can handle it in an uncontrolled one.

Look

https://powerathletehq.com/tag/see-saw-walk/

Tex – @McQuilkin

Shawn – @ShawnReady_atcJeremy – @MrJeremyJackson

Foot Work – Matt Zanis on Power Athlete HQ

Triplanar Arch development

Active foot isometrics

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AT Inventors 3 is focused on Logistics and Production for your product to help improve the practice of Athletic Trainers EVERYWHERE.

E: dial in all of your costs and then add 15% in case of overages.

A lot of people do not understand this statement, but it’s good to shoot for 5X to cover all the other expenses we talked about. Rent, insurance, time, labor…

Really slim margins do not offer you any protection.  Everyone needs to make their money. 

Using the SanDisk memory card example – the card is the same shape and size as it changes storage capacity but the price keeps going up.

Stay focused and do not spread yourself too thin.

E: Shipping can be a big experiment as well. Saving one inch could save you lots of dollars.

J: Everyone liked the custom cardboard boxes but they cost more…

E: I was going to pay $90 for 10 stickers…I decided to go with a vinyl sticker cutter instead…it has been well worth the time and investment.

Passive income streams are another option we did not really cover.

J: As someone who does not have access to a lot of warehouses I had to prototype to troubleshoot quality control and how they handle the load.

I used SGS as a third party inspection company

J: Is it worth your time and money to pay someone or do you need to learn how to do this.

E: Look at efficiency and what you really want – do you want to learn how to sew.

J: Affordability was the key – square seemed to be the best fit for me now.

They are a one-stop shop for me.

E: I got a quote from a company to build a custom site with everything I want for $14K

There were not as many eCommerce sites available

I felt I would be stuck with that with minimal support.

We went with an eCommerce site and used the money to get exactly what we wanted.

With your website try to answer every customer service question with an article or video so that you can reduce the personally answered questions.

J: The best part of upgraded eCommerce sites is REPORTS.

J: I did not do any marketing, I established a relationship with ATs first using Instagram.

E: The personable story is what everyone likes

Always answer the phone with a smile.

If you put a video on YouTube you do not actually own it but YouTube does.

Google ad words – someone will outbuy your “word”

Variety is actually good, not everyone likes Starbucks

E: What is the most important thing you need to get done today at this moment – I do not open an email unless I am ready to answer it.

Do the things you least like first to get them out of the way.

Write yourself an abundance check – kind of like a self-fulfilling prophecy.

AT Inventors 1

AT Inventors 2

Jeremy Jackson

Elysia Tsai – [email protected]

Jay – @NexusSportsMed on IG

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