The New School: Recent Episodes
Alex Luna
The New School is a coaching podcast dedicated to the exploration of new and unique ideas and concepts in coaching and leadership. It's comes from the recognition that with generational change comes necessary changes in the approach to leading and optimizing performance and personal development. It's mostly an exercise in professional development, but hopefully will produce fresh perspectives on culture, performance, and interpersonal dynamics.
Tori and I talk film. Game film. Pros, cons, the psychology behind why people do or don't like watching it, the difference between seeking out your good plays vs seeking out your bad plays, objectivity, timing, and more!
Chloe and I discuss the effect one player can have on a team - specifically in regards to "competitive contagiousness." We get into the quality of competitiveness, whether you're born with it or it can be developed, the degree to which someone can model competitive behavior, the different ways people respond to losing, and more.
Madison and I dig in to the idea of honest feedback, negative vs positive, if feedback is equally valuable from everyone, personality types and their ability to receive honest feedback, postgame talks, and more.
Toby and I delve into servant leadership; finding ways to add value when you're no longer at the top, capitalism vs communism as metaphors for selfishness vs selflessness in teams, coaches pets vs fitting in, passivity in partnerships, and more!
Lizzie and I's conversation about her contribution to the team: Goal Setting. We get into ideas like microdosing, short term vs long term goals, attainability, engineering your environment, periodization, SMART goals, and more.
A conversation between Elaina and I about her team accountability project: complaining mindset and the importance of shifting it to a positive and opportunistic one. We get into a discussion about why people bond over complaining, the sociology/psychology of complaining, the possible benefits of negative mindsets, self-talk, interpersonal mindset shaping and accountability, and much more.
A conversation between Hannah and I about her contribution to the team culture: forced emotional self-acknowledgement. We delve into topics like introspection, coach vs player emotional expression, female vs male emotions, group dynamics, "team cry's" and more.
This is the backstory for the upcoming 1 on 1 podcast series between players and coaches.