Elevating Team Experience with Two Simple Expectations

Coach Versaw shares the impact of two simple expectations - smiling and saying thank you - on enhancing the team experience. By starting with a smile, creating a positive atmosphere, and expressing gratitude, the team culture becomes more welcoming and motivating. These basic life skills can bring about significant changes in how team members interact and support each other.

• Team Building
• Coaching
• Positive Atmosphere
• Gratitude
• Life Skills

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1. Two Simple Expectations Elevating the Team Experience with Basic Life Skills

2. Cmon, Coach Versaw, everyone does team building. Why have you joined the ranks? The last five years of my coaching experience were the five happiest years (with a COVID caveat). The last five years of my coaching experience was, I believe, the best five years for the kids. What I m about to tell you about doesn t cost a dime ever. In my experience, once you get it rolling, it is self- sustaining. Lotso time for questions at the end.

3. Okay, so what are the two expectations? #1: Smile #2: Say thank you Apply to the entire team, but like so many other things it begins with the head coach, extends next to the coaching staff, and only then embraces the whole team. Wait a minute! Let s take them one at a time.

4. Smile (like you mean it) What does smiling have to do with anything? Especially anything track and field? It changes how others see and react to you. Since a picture is worth a thousand words

5. What do you see? What changes when you see this?

6. What does a smile accomplish? You become more attractive when you smile. We are drawn to people who smile. Smiling puts people around you at ease. When you smile, people around you smile. Try this in a mirror someday you can t stay mad when you re smiling. People like to do things for other people who smile. It s easier to extend grace when you re smiling, and people are more likely to do it for you.

7. So, when I come to practice with a smile I create an atmosphere where positive things are likely to happen. Nobody on the team is motivated out of fear. It s a lot more likely the kids are smiling at the end of practice.

8. Say thank you (with a smile on your face) This one takes a little more work. What does saying thank you accomplish? It keeps the good things coming. Why? People who have been thanked feel appreciated. Appreciation is a great feeling. People crave more of it. Eventually people notice (it doesn t hurt to nudge this one along) that saying thank you creates an atmosphere that people like to be a part of. So, Coach Versaw, what happened at TCA when you started saying thank you more often? Well, hang on

9. When/Where do you say thank you? At the beginning of practice? At the end of practice? In the middle of practice? In team communications? Before meets? After meets? With administrators? With parents? To everyone from whom you appreciate cooperation. Summary: Let no kind deed go unthanked.

10. What difference did it make? Requests of parents/administrators Leaving meets After-meet meals End of practices Notes from the kids It makes a difference in their lives, too.

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