10. Tyler Gillum "Rock Star in Cowboy Boots" - Growth Toolbox, Infield, Baserunning, Communication, and much more

How have you gotten better during the quarantine?

• Trying to connect with a lot of people
• Training online/classes online
• Zoom calls

 

You came up with a goal of connecting a million people 

• Wanted a crazy goal for people to say wow!
• Put it on the board in 2017 and hasn’t changed yet
• Connections will get me the results as effect of those 
• Kind of became my mission and learned how to treat people due to it

 

How are you working on your Communication

• Oklahoma accent
• Being conscious and self aware of my accent and being vulnerable of it
• Growing as a coach - when to yell and how to cue
• Self reflecting on how to teach better and figure out how to use visual verbs
• Sticky language (language) - short to the point analogies
• Create stories and tell stories about people

 

Story from a guy you have motivated and helped develop.

•  “Stretch” LHP
• Project kid who wanted to get better
• Picture in january freshman year, and transformation january sophomore year
• Developed in all 9 areas!

RE 1-9 - relentless effort through 9 areas of life - faith, man, son, teammate, academics, game, practice, S&C

Growth toolbox (Growth U) - classroom session hourly weekly session to discuss the 9 areas of a person’s life. 

• Improving our program with what we can control
• Taking program to the next level
• Fall of 2015 - January 2016 ABCA speech
• Start with Goal setting (telescope and microscope)
• Telescope - big goals (north star)
• Microscope - daily habits/routines
• Players make them, and then send them to coach
• If there is a discipline issue we pull out the goal setting exercise to put it back on the kids to hold them accountable
• Pre-hab instead of rehab
• Time management always comes up as one of the best days of growth toolbox

 

How do you balance the life of being with the bananas and at South Mt?

• Just take things off the plate of the head coach

 

You have 9 years of being an assistant coach, and have a staff of your own with the bananas, so what do you feel makes a great assistant coach?

• Loyalty 
• Doing more than what you are paid for
• Learning from other coaches and being self aware of what the team needs
• Flexibility and adaptability
• Keep improving 
• Be the good cop

What is the green light special?

• Bucket leads (old school, lean, momentum (new school), walking)
• Teach one of them a day and rep it (3 at the most)
• Bucket pitcher tendencies
• Courtesy runner in charge of tendencies or running subs and they spread the news

How are you communicating your baserunning system so clearly that each year with a new bunch of guys they can jump right in the system?

• Good players that buy in
• Great coaches who I have stood on their shoulders
• Play fast, be aggressive, nothing has ever been achieved by being passive
• Educate kids every day
• Create the environment for them to thrive (Talk to kid and not yell at him and see his thought process)
• Windows of opportunity
• Working on it daily

 

Offensive System

• Hit
• Work within an offense (bunt, hit and run, manufacturing runs)
• baserunning

 

What have been your top takeaways from all of the Infield U happy hour zoom calls?

• Simplicity
• Having one liners
• Creating systems!
•  Vision verbs!
• Catch play! Game like and increase body awareness

 

What traits have you seen in the best players? 

• Internally motivated
• Big vision goal
• Discipline themselves
• Hold themselves to a higher standard
• Hate to lose
• Daily habits 
• Never have to get on the guys to get their reps
• Confidence and positive self talk

 

What is the best way for people to contact you if they have any more questions for you?

• Twitter @Gillum13
• tyler.gillum@southmountaincc.edu
• 602-370-7649
• www.gillumbaseball.com

NOTES

• Where can I grow and make the most connections?
• Transition from senior to first year of college are extremely important!
• Groups that compete all throughout the fall
• Grand junction challenge where there is 30 events to compete
• “Can you guess the telescope goal based on the logged activities for 3 days?” Do your daily habits match your telescope goals.
• Hero, highlight, hardship - share your hero, share a highlight of your career, and hardship in your life
• Learn from highly successful people
• Pressure bursts pipe
• Forgetting curve - map it out to teach it multiple days
• 2018 ABCA green light special
• USA baseball virtual clinic on green light special
• Daily vitamins - knee work, groundball progression, picks with different hops, start with blocked and move to random 
• Infield camps
• Quit listening to yourself, and start talking to yourself