Building Greatness-Leadership & Softball

Staying positive.  My Leadership Style.

While staying positive is easier said than done, coaches should strive to find “good,” regardless of how bad the situation is, especially when a practice or game is not going according to plan.  Establishing a positive culture on the team breeds good results.  In a sport where failure is common (the best hitters fail 70% of the time), helping your athletes stay positive can be challenging.  In order to overcome the affects of “failure” in softball, I have helped my hitters reassess their definition of success.  Instead of measuring success by outcome, we have redefined it to measure success by effort.  I teach my players that if you swing the bat hard and miss, at least you were successful because you gave it 100% effort.  The players have already seen positive results by not allowing their effort to be outweighed by the fear of failure.  We will see where this philosophy takes us this season.