This week in the Leadership Journey, Keith Grabowski and Brian Kight discuss creating strong culture for coaches in a noisy world. There are so many factors and influences that effect coaches and their players, but Brian gives great tools and insight that challenges coaches to hold their culture. Keith and Brian go back and forth about the challenges and decipher what can be done to overcome them.

Show Notes:

01:30 The successful coaches have things aligned

03:10 Every coach has expressed frustration

04:00 The battle with time of influence

04:30 Not impossible to get better

05:30 Can’t afford to fight the other influence

06:00 Parents

08:00 It is a competition

08:40 Dealing with the “Yeah but”

09:28 20 square feet

10:30 Breaking down the team culture

12:10 Messy details in culture

12:14 Unit culture requires independent alignment

13:00 Team culture comes from units aligning

14:30 Culture is an individual decision

16:00 External negative influence

16:40 What cultures effect the team outside of football?

17:50 Social environment

18:10 Family

18:50 Are you willing to except the outside influences into your program?

19:45 Your culture cannot absorb everything outside of it

20:20 School & institution

22:30 Community

23:35 Social media

24:10 The country

25:00 Winning the competition is way harder than you think it is

25:25 Who’s better at what matters, you or the influence?

26:40 Compete but don’t judge

28:35 There’s a line in your culture that nothing else crosses

29:15 You as a coach are also influenced

29:55 You must fight the same fight as your players

30:12 You must build and protect your culture at all cost

30:45 Keith’s reflection

33:10 The trend Brian sees

35:25 It’s a responsibility, not a right to be head coach

35:50 Convert authority to responsibility

36:15 Know the line between your program and the other cultures

37:20 Have a dispassionate perspective toward the other cultures

38:12 Create something worth buying into

38:30 Dealing with parents practically

41:55 Listen and understand

42:50 Doesn’t matter, get better

43:30 What to kill off in your mindset

43:55 National Conference

44:05 National Conference promo code

44:15 Brian’s National Conference topics

45:00 Lead Now & R-factor

46:22 Daily discipline

 

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