16 - Ron Siers (Salisbury University) - "Leadership, Defense, and Purpose"

For all the show notes - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kiFmVfuBTI6R9z2Y5wvVaRiRuZ7Q2EEI1q19XJ59nNA/edit

 

SHOW NOTES

• Consistency of people involved to get some great people around
• Intentional about our standards and values
• Behaviors are congruent to the values
• Continuous improvement
• After action reviews
• Exit meetings
• Courageous conversations
  • Helping you
  • Hurting you
• Get away from the “feel” questions to can you teach it to someone else (Accountability partners)
• Vulnerability and trust allow us to have conflict and get through it to get more commitment rather than compliance
• Am I holding my teammates accountable, peer leadership tend to better results
• Veteran intentionally invited, had dinner, made good decisions with a rookie as a person to hold accountable
• Spreadsheet of kids to check in on partners to see if everyone is trying to include everyone
• Exit interviews to see what the kids learned from and gained from relationships
• Don’t commit “assumicide!”
• DWYSYWD - Do what you say you will do!
• Feedback from student athletes more frequently, not waiting for just exit interviews or until they are struggling.
• BP sides - go on the side to work defensive skill work, warm up to what will happen during BP
• Pre work opposite of BP side
• Post work after practice
• Charting our defense work from sides, BP, and then put up on team board to show
• Has not changed in coaching tenure
  • Attention to detail. Small things always matter. 
  • Fundamentally sound with sound pedagogy
  • Continuous learners!
  • Daily lesson plan
  • Lifelong reader!
• Go to a non baseball practice to see how we can coach baseball better
• Clock work (giant timer) to help with transition, periods in practice, 
• Serve and clean breakfast to the homeless and have seen a big transformation of attitude
• Theme each year - player of the game will sweep the dugouts 
• Classroom sessions to talk about it, show it, ask questions, and then do it
• Confidence comes with skill acquisition and demonstrated performance (results)
• If a kid asked you what is going on then you need to look at yourself as a coach. Frontload and prepare them so they never ask.
• 45 minutes of early/pre work
• Know your why - tell your players
• Email - rrsiers@salisbury.edu
• Twitter - @rrsiers