9 - Jeremy "Sheets" Sheetinger; "Culture, Communication, Connection"

What advice are you giving your players during this pandemic?

• Building the next team
• Group me chat to build rapport with current commits and returners
• Build the team through the summer

 

How have you been growing yourself during this time?

• On the phone so much that its hard not to
• Asking what guys are doing with their staff

 

What are some of your best strategies for connecting people?

• Fighting for empathy with the other person - get on the other side of the conversation and see where they are coming from. Try to see it through their eyes
• At the core of feel is empathy and living in the other people shoes! ***
• Invest time, energy and focus into other people
• Don’t let 15 seconds feel like 15 seconds!! ***
• Work on it with the gas station attendant 

 

I hear you saying my name consistently, communicating effectively, How are you helping create better communicators?

• Traveled around with my dad who was a motivational speaker
• Control a crow and flow of good conversation
• Funny moment, right into serious moment - that’s where you know you are in control
• Test the room, and see where you got the room, and hammer on what has them and find how to get them.
• Be more efficient with my words
• Feel, constant evaluation mode
• Shifts in body language, eye contact
• Recruiting - get closer and engaged when they were hearing the speech
• More concise and crystal clear - eliminating grey talk, no assumptions to control the narrative.
• Deliberate choice with your language

You have interviewed and been around coaches of all levels from around the country, what are the top things that you took away from the thousands of hours of interviews/conversations you have done?

• There is a system, and figured out what works for them
• Tough thing to build a great team, and to do it consistently in incredibly hard
• We are all chasing elite greatness, and we need to work at being really really good today!

 

How do you prioritize what are the most important things to implement into your program?

• Always listening and always intrigued and curious
• You take it and your rooted philosophy and take the information boil it down to the simplest form
• You can’t change your philosophy every year
• These things work for me, for our kids, and for our program
• If your trying to build consistency then coach needs to be consistent

 

What is your system?

• Still building ours
• What got you to the middle point? Still good and bad
• It's been really good. What are the missing points?
• Where can I fill the gaps. Empowering the coaches
• 3 year system, less gaps year 2 and 3 - 
• Does not stray away from trust and love

How are you developing the culture of trust and love at GCC?

• You can never land on being short sighted!
• Call all 30 players and have 30 different conversations
• Build back the exact same message
• Deliberate message - get on you at 10, but love you at 20!!**
• You don’t have to be perfect but you need to be deliberate **
• Culture is a measurement of the environment you have created**
• Championship teams do it this way…
• Be the example of those expectations
• Willingness to be vulnerable! **

 

How are you developing your players both menally and physically at GCC?

• Meet in the classroom and teach
• Call me “Sheets”
• Use the classroom to make a big impact
• Be mindful of helping each player rewrite their own story - rewire and give them responsibilities
• Talking about stuff other than baseball

Do you believe that if you players are better people they will help you win at GCC?

• 100%
• The kids knew when I was making selfish decisions to get a better job
• Servant leadership and not about me, it's about the players
• The person, the student, the player and in that order of development

 

Do you look for specific traits in recruits? Turn ons and turn offs?

• Live in the transfer world
• Want people to leave who feel they are GCC guys
• Vetting them on the phone
  • Talking with prior coach
    • Who is he? Baggage?
• Get who you want, but get who we are! ***
• What is important to you? Winning, being on a great team? Personal development?
• Specific measurables we are looking for
• Being coachable

 

You have seen great players from all over the country at all levels. What do those great players have in common?

• Same as coaches, open minded and wanting more
• Every championship team has a good catcher, arms, defense, and hitters that came through in certain moments (situationally executed)
• They did not hate each other, generally they like to be together, and no dysfunction
• Intrinsically motivated, desire to figure out the best version of themselves
• They want more
• Sacrifice is required!

 

You have also seen so many great coaches from all over the country. What do those great coaches have in common?

• Curious 
• There thoughts are always moveable
• Always willing to test their theories/processes
• Open minded to hear it for what it is
• Listened to get better, not to respond

 

What is the best way to contact you?

• @coachsheets3
• sheets@stickandballtv.com
• 502-767-7680

Notes:

 

• Come from a centered place! Can’t make a decision from the highs and lows, and always come back to center to make decisions
• Stay away from recruits who blame others and wired from young age
• The person, the student, the player and in that order of development
• Find the courage to act on their own thoughts and ideas
• At the core of feel is empathy and living in the other people's shoes! ***
• Don’t let 15 seconds feel like 15 seconds!! ***
• The people change the game!