Program Director's Playbook

How to Show Parents the Growth They Can't See From the Stands

How to Show Parents the Growth They Can't See F...

Sooner or later, the parent of your strongest young athlete starts asking questions. Is this team actually challenging her? Should she be playing up an age group, or moving to...

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How to Show Parents the Growth They Can't See From the Stands

Sooner or later, the parent of your strongest young athlete starts asking questions. Is this team actually challenging her? Should she be playing up an age group, or moving to.

Why the Best Coaches Aren't Always the Best at Feedback

Why the Best Coaches Aren't Always the Best at ...

Walk into any sophisticated youth sports program and ask ten coaches what their feedback practice looks like across a season. You'll get ten different answers. One coach runs a thorough...

Why the Best Coaches Aren't Always the Best at Feedback

Walk into any sophisticated youth sports program and ask ten coaches what their feedback practice looks like across a season. You'll get ten different answers. One coach runs a thorough.

How to Build Rest Into a Calendar Without Offering Athletes Less

How to Build Rest Into a Calendar Without Offer...

Programs that take athlete wellbeing seriously tend to express that seriousness in one particular way: they measure it. At the end of the season, they check whether kids came out...

How to Build Rest Into a Calendar Without Offering Athletes Less

Programs that take athlete wellbeing seriously tend to express that seriousness in one particular way: they measure it. At the end of the season, they check whether kids came out.

Why the Strongest Director Can Become the Program's Ceiling

Why the Strongest Director Can Become the Progr...

There is a kind of program that runs beautifully on the strength of one person. The director knows every family by name, makes every real decision, and catches every problem...

Why the Strongest Director Can Become the Program's Ceiling

There is a kind of program that runs beautifully on the strength of one person. The director knows every family by name, makes every real decision, and catches every problem.

5 Signs Your Program Has Outgrown "Do-It-Yourself" HR

5 Signs Your Program Has Outgrown "Do-It-Yourse...

Nobody decides to outgrow do-it-yourself HR. You cross a line, usually without noticing, and the rules you have been operating under stop applying. A call you would have handled on...

5 Signs Your Program Has Outgrown "Do-It-Yourself" HR

Nobody decides to outgrow do-it-yourself HR. You cross a line, usually without noticing, and the rules you have been operating under stop applying. A call you would have handled on.

How to Keep Your Coach That Everyone Else Is Trying to Hire

How to Keep Your Coach That Everyone Else Is Tr...

Your best coach last season ended up at a school district. Or a parks department. Or a job outside sports entirely. The destination is what caught you off guard. Every...

How to Keep Your Coach That Everyone Else Is Trying to Hire

Your best coach last season ended up at a school district. Or a parks department. Or a job outside sports entirely. The destination is what caught you off guard. Every.

3 Roles Every Growing Program Needs, in the Right Order

3 Roles Every Growing Program Needs, in the Rig...

Every growing program hits the moment when the back-office work outgrows what one person can carry. By then the director already knows they need help. The harder question is which...

3 Roles Every Growing Program Needs, in the Right Order

Every growing program hits the moment when the back-office work outgrows what one person can carry. By then the director already knows they need help. The harder question is which.

The Freedom to Fail That Leads to Real Development

The Freedom to Fail That Leads to Real Development

By now most directors understand the parent side of premium programs: when families pay serious money, they watch playing time more closely, track progress more carefully, and feel every gap...

The Freedom to Fail That Leads to Real Development

By now most directors understand the parent side of premium programs: when families pay serious money, they watch playing time more closely, track progress more carefully, and feel every gap.

The High Standard That Develops One Kid and Hollows Another

The High Standard That Develops One Kid and Hol...

Two coaches are running the same demanding drill. Same high standard, same refusal to accept a lazy rep, same hard edge in the voice when a kid coasts. Watch from...

The High Standard That Develops One Kid and Hollows Another

Two coaches are running the same demanding drill. Same high standard, same refusal to accept a lazy rep, same hard edge in the voice when a kid coasts. Watch from.

The 4 Things to Watch That Reveal Your Real Culture in Twenty Minutes

The 4 Things to Watch That Reveal Your Real Cul...

Ask most directors to describe their program's culture and they will give you a confident answer. Push a little, though, on when they last stood at one of their own...

The 4 Things to Watch That Reveal Your Real Culture in Twenty Minutes

Ask most directors to describe their program's culture and they will give you a confident answer. Push a little, though, on when they last stood at one of their own.