The Coaching Life Podcast

We might have found a third host for The Coaching Life Podcast. Brooks McKeller is a senior on the Ohio University Golf team, and he is our guest in this episode.

This conversation is SO good. We encourage you to take the time to listen to it in it's entirety.

When you are on a team, or coaching a team, that is used to losing, how do you change that? We all know of those teams that just seem to have a culture of winning, and we also know the ones that just seem to have a culture of losing.

What makes them so different? Of course, there are many factors, and we didn't have time to go over them all. Do a search and you will find hundreds of books written on this topic. Still, we think you might find this conversation compelling, and hopefully useful.

We are seeing a generation of young people who are leading in many different ways. That's today's conversation.

We began today's conversation and were reminded that it was September 11. So we decided to just talk about it for an episode.

This is different from a lot of our conversations on the Coaching Life Podcast, but we believe it is important.

Never forget.

The single greatest factor in any problem, conflict, misunderstanding, or mistake is communication – lack of, not enough, poor – communication is always at the center.

Today we bring into our conversation the issue of communication as it relates to coaches and coaching. What you say... How you say it... Why you say it... When you say it...

COMMUNICATION is the number one skill we need to constantly be developing.

This conversation kind of went in several directions, but all with similar themes.

How does your body language affect your teammates?

What is the perfect sport? What criteria would you consider to determine what makes the perfect sport?

Pat and Chris share their (admittedly not unbiased) opinions on what makes the perfect sport, giving credence to several different sports in this episode.

Our conversation topic today was provided by a listener: What do we think about the Savannah Bananas?

We open Season 10 with a conversation about being cocky... or is it confidence? Is swagger the same thing? As always, we hope to spark some interesting and useful thought to help us all get better in how we relate to our players and coach our teams.

We hope you will subscribe, follow, share, and participate with us for a new season of The Coaching Life!

We go back and revisit our original mission for starting the podcast and compare it to where we are today and some of the new things we are currently involved with. We are excited to help create (or revive) a new opportunity for young people in our community to play summer ball. In this episode, we talk about how it is coming to fruition.