Breakthrough solutions for growth 📈 🚀

James Purchin

and

Dustin Aubert

Jun 29, 2023

This is the day you become a better player or coach.

Today’s Basketball Academy takes 2 minutes and 28 seconds to read.

Here’s what we’re serving up:

🏀 #1 - Favorite Thing we learned 🧠

🏀 #2 - Favorite Action to add 🎥

🏀 #3 - Favorite Culture piece 👈

LET’S DIVE IN ⬇️👇

4 Levels of player skill thinking: 🧠

Unconsciously Unskilled
1. We don’t know what we don’t know.
2. The player who makes plays they have no business doing
Consciously Unskilled
1. We know we must improve
2. You know you’re not good enough
Consciously Skilled
1. We are improving
2. Getting better and you know it
Unconsciously Skilled
1. We don’t think, we react
2. You’re a master at this skill

💥 What players do you have or who are you? 💥

Must Add Action 🎥

College of Charleston Actions.

Some incredible Away stuff to add to the playbook!

Two Points 🏀 👈

Pat Summitt is considered one of the greatest coaches and leaders ever. One thing she did a tremendous job of was encouraging genuine feedback.

Summitt observed that when her players didn’t hear feedback, they assumed the silence meant they were underperforming, worthless or unlikeable. She like many leaders struggled to find the sweet spot between too much praise and too much effectiveness.

Summitt devised a feedback system in which a player had to say “two points” when they heard her praise, and “rebound” when they heard her criticism. “It was surprising how much better it made everybody feel,” Summitt said.

💥 This is a strategy we will be stealing for our teams 💥

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