#30 - Coachability: The Skill That Changes Everything S2.12

I don't even know why sometimes as a coach, right?

Yeah.

And when we talk about all the time, like if we can go in a tryout, if we walk by a girl and we can say, hey, just elbow up or something, and then you can see them working really intentionally on getting that elbow up, then you're like, ding, ding, ding, coachable.

She can listen and immediately work to try to put it into play.

Maybe it's not, she's not immediately effective, but she can.

And we know of girls that we've coached that we can work with them for a whole season to get them to barely start changing something or doing something how we're asking and then other girls you can see their willingness to take a step backwards to do what we're asking to then you know take a leap forward so yeah coach billy's huge and we notice it right in tryouts yeah i

think one of the things i actually think back to a story that we had we went into a tryout with an athlete that had good skills their unwillingness to pay pair up with partners that weren't their besties was so noticeable to the point where I actually said to this athlete, hey, do you want to make sure that you're moving around a little bit? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

But then I would, okay, you and you go together and watch her face.

So instead of taking the opportunity of like, oh, okay, I'm partnered up with somebody who either isn't my best friend or maybe is not having quite the skill.

As an athlete, you have the opportunity to step in and be a little bit louder, communicate a little bit more effectively.

Notice, okay, my partner might not have it, but I'm going to do everything I can to not only show myself doing well, but actually help my partner succeed because I'm going to tell her where to go.

I'm going to be like, okay, back row, you've got this, you know, and be really encouraging.

And we really saw in that one, like that athlete never ended up playing on our team.

That was such a red flag that even in the conversation about it didn't respond well to being prompted of, hey, you're going to have to be a team player here.

Yeah.

Yeah, for sure.

And with coachability, we really

just want to see that you're open to learning, that you're willing to adjust and that you're actually eager to improve versus, well, just shutting down the coach.

If a coach is giving you pointers, it's because we believe in your athletic ability and your ability to grow and improve, which is what you want.

If a coach is not giving you any feedback, Either I've coached with coaches that just don't really provide a lot of technical feedback, but it also could mean that your coach is just maybe giving up on you.

If they used to try to give you lots of pointers, now they don't.

So if that's something you want to change, you got to go to your coach and be like, hey, coach, is there any feedback with regards to a specific skill, for instance? And then you have to really be willing to commit to learning it and trying to put it into play.

And then you then you can win your coach back.

Like we'd be over the moon if we saw a player developing in the coachability era and being really, I'm willing.

I get it now.