Constructive Confrontation for Cheerleaders and Cheer Coaches: Part II
Take a group of 10 to 20 cheerleaders plus their parents and add a coach or two and what do you have? The potential for great joy, yes, but also significant strife!
What could possibly go wrong? Well, here’s my list and I invite you to add to it!
- Cheerleaders who come late for practice – all the time.
- Cheerleaders who whine and complain about the hard work.
- Cheerleaders who goof off during practice.
- Cheerleaders with a negative attitude.
- Cheerleaders who talk trash about others.
- Cheerleaders who do not want to try something new.
- Parents who insist that their child should be the star.
- Parents who interfere with the coaches’ decisions.
- Parents who interfere with practice (loud talking, etc.)
- Parents who think they know better than the coach.
- Coaches who yell at team members.
- Coaches who have obvious favorites.
- Coaches who ignore phone calls from parents.
- Coaches who are late for practice.
- Coaches who treat their assistants poorly.
Now let me be clear. I recognize that most coaches, cheerleaders, and parents do not belong on this list but – it only takes one of these situations to cause problems and that is what we’re looking at now – problems and how to manage them.
Feel free to comment and add to the list.
In my next posting, I will present Greg Hicks’s six-step communications model for Constructive Confrontation.
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