A Proactive Coaching podcast interview in the "best coaches you've never heard of" series with Dan Teeter, football coach and teacher at Lakewood High School in Washington State, hosted by Bruce Brown. Topics covered: getting started in coaching through service-minded callings, turning points including Bruce Brown's "power of words" message and Tony Dungy's Quiet Strength, mentors near and far, lessons from his first head coaching job in softball (closed practices and poor parent communication), turning around a struggling football program through consistency, care, and presence, building a staff of people who care about kids, the "crosstalk" exercise on how teammates treat each other, exit interviews and a "we over me" family culture, the LACE acronym (love, attitude, commitment, effort), his purpose for coaching, his "Listen, Learn, Love, Lead" interview series on race, the importance of listening, recommended books, and advice for the next generation of coaches.
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The Most Powerful Thing I’ve Ever Seen a Team Do
Dan Teeter, football coach at Lakewood High School in Washington, on the anonymous “crosstalk” exercise that changed how his players treat each other — and the five-year turnaround it anchored.
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