Coaches Corner at The King’s Academy: Recent Episodes
Dr. Chris Hobbs
Dr. Chris Hobbs, Director of Athletics, shares his heart with the coaches of The King’s Academy about the present and future of Lions’ Athletics.
Trust is crucial currency for a leader and it takes time to collect. Sometimes, a leader doesn’t have the luxury of time and doesn’t have enough trust in the account. Here are 7 things a leader can do when the trust account balance is low.
Here is an incredible story of how Beethoven showed up for a friend and three lessons we can learn from it.
We live in noisy times and it is costing us a lot. Here are 5 things you are trading for noise and it is a bad deal.
We all want to be considered a good teammate, but do we maintain that desire in the midst of day-to-day stress? Here are a few reflections that might expose you are a faux teammate.
None of us wants to be known as Mr. or Mrs. Drama, yet we often cause it inadvertently. Dr. Chris Hobbs gives you five ways to know if you are the cause of drama in your own life.
We are all striving for excellence in our lives and want to be considered good at what we do, but how can we know? Dr. Chris Hobbs offers up five simple ways to know if your work is good enough.
‘You’re the exact same at home and school!’ Here how this outburst from son to father is exactly why there are things in your life that should NOT change if you want to impact others. Give Dr. Chris Hobbs 5 minutes and he’ll describe three things that should remain unchanged.
Mirrors are the ultimate truth tellers. They provide factual feedback. Leaders need mirrors too. Dr. Chris Hobbs describes five things that are a reflection of a leader’s effectiveness.
Leadership has a dangerous pull to it. Dr. Chris Hobbs describes 5 undertows that can pull a leader into deep water.
Disappointment is, well, disappointing. Dr. Chris Hobbs describes 5 developmental effects of disappointment in our lives.
Everyone has a strength that can put them on the cutting edge of what they do. Dr. Chris Hobbs describes how mismanaging your strengths can push over to a bleeding edge.
Everyone has a weakness even leaders. Dr. Chris Hobbs describes 5 ways ‘super’ leaders deal with their own weaknesses.
Dr. Chris Hobbs describes the perspective of the world’s most elite soldier and three way you can have the same mindset.
Did you know that crises in Mandarin is defined as a dangerous opportunity? Well, kinda. Dr. Chris Hobbs provides 5 opportunities that are found inside of crises.
KPIs are key performance indicators. But, what if there’s a better metric for leaders to track? Dr. Chris Hobbs describes how KPEs can be a valuable indicator of leadership effectiveness.
Did you know that just because you are doing your job, doesn’t mean you’re doing the right job? Dr. Chris Hobbs describes what that means and 3 ways to evaluate your effectiveness at your place of work.
No one aspires to be a bad teammate. However there are 4 challenges that can expose the truth about how committed we are to our groups. Dr. Chris Hobbs describes those challenges and makes a suggestion for how to counteract their effects.
‘Participation is formation.’ - Jon Tyson. If that quote is true, is there anything more formative in our lives that our jobs? Dr. Chris Hobbs uses five ‘P’ words to help you control the way your job is shaping you.
Fighting is defined as striving to overcome. There a lot of areas in life that this applies. Dr. Chris Hobbs describes 5 ways to fight the good fight in your life.
‘There’s a always a bigger fish out here.’ What do we do when we come face to face with reality and it humbles us? Dr. Chris Hobbs shares his most recent reality check and 5 reality checks we all need to be prepared to engage.
Bandwidth. It is a buzz word in modern times and often used when we have exhausted it. Dr. Chris Hobbs describes the importance of preparation and pacing suggesting 5 ways to manage bandwidth better, and live a fulfilling personal and professional life.
Somewhere along the way, all of the thought leadership about positivity got too, well, positive. Life is hard and we need the positivity that is reflected in Winston Churchill’s famous quote, ‘We didn’t come this far because we are made of sugar candy.’ Dr. Chris Hobbs shares six important ways that he researched extensively to maintain real positivity.
Excellence is hiding in plain sight all around us. Dr. Chris Hobbs shares an experience he had on vacation with a boring tour guide who was an incredible example of 5 characteristics of personal excellence
Nick Saban says, ‘if you want to make everyone happy don’t lead; sell ice cream. No more is that true than in the leader’s responsibility to have tough conversations. Technology has made having tough conversations even tougher because how often we can avoid having them the right way - face to face. Dr. Chris Hobbs shares 4 Ds of tough conversations that he learned from a long-time NCAA Division I athletic director
Athletes need a pre-season to get ready for a challenge. The days of physical competition might be over, but we continue to face a wide array of intellectual challenges throughout out lives. Dr. Hobbs provides a few ways you can make sure you are in challenge shape.
We all have times in our career when we want to pursue a new or larger role, but how do we know if we are ready? A great way to reflect on your own performance is to consider the growth around you. Are you proven grower? Dr. Chris Hobbs explains five areas of growth that may indicate you are ready for more.
Leaders make leading too complicated, sometimes. But, just because it's simple doesn't mean it's easy. Leading requires a lot of simple strains. Dr. Chris Hobbs describes 4 simple things that are hard for leaders to model, yet worth the effort.
‘Leadership is a 52/48 proposition. You better get comfortable being wrong a lot and learning even more.’ Dr. Chris Hobbs describes the framework for his learning and how it can help other become the leading learners for the teams
Every leader wants to lead the way. Unfortunately, some leaders just get in the way. Dr. Chris Hobbs shares 5 ways to reflect on whether or not you are a LTW or ITW leader.
Too often catastrophe is our response to our discomfort. Dr. Chris Hobbs shares a new concept he learned from a mental coach of elite distance runners and 4 ways catastrophizing destroys your focus. Stop catastrophizing!
We have all become allergic to being bored. Yet, boredom is part of becoming good at anything. Dr. Chris Hobbs describes 3 ways boring is good when you are trying to get good at something.
Have you heard about how a pack of wolves literally changed the course of a massive river system? It’s true…kinda. Dr. Chris Hobbs uses this somewhat true story to highlight the little things a leader can to change the atmosphere for their team.
Did you know that the average person consumes more information in one day than the average person did in a lifetime 100 years ago? So why should leaders read more books? Is that even a good use of time? Dr. Chris Hobbs describes four benefits to a leaders mind from reading books that are critical to their effectiveness.
Have you ever coached a sports team that had momentum? It's an amazing experience. Did you know that leaders can be momentum makers for their groups? Dr. Chris Hobbs will describe 5 behaviors that leaders can practice to be momentum makers for their groups.
Feedback can be an uncomfortable experience that many avoid at the cost of their own growth. Dr. Hobbs utilizes insights from podcast expert Ryan Hawk, best-selling author Daniel Grothe, and the book of Proverbs to share 5 ways you can discover the growth potential of feedback.
Failure might not be fatal, but there are 5 mindsets that could lead you to a fatal failure. Dr. Chris Hobbs describes these 5 struggles that we all have to work to overcome.
Have you ever started something and it just isn’t going according to plan? Are you second guessing that you even took it on? You might need a halftime. Sports and life. They have a lot of crossover. Dr. Chris Hobbs shares three simple things you can do to pause, focus, and win in the second half.
We all tend to believe we add value to what we are involved in, but do we? Really? Dr. Chris Hobbs shares 6 ways anyone can know if they are adding value to the groups and teams they are part of.
Leaders cause problems when they lack humility and they solve problems when they make humility work for them. Dr. Chris Hobbs shares his favorite humility quote of the last couple years and 4 ways leaders can make humility work for them.
We hear the catch phrase, ‘iron sharpens iron’, and it causes us to consider the company we keep. But, have you ever considered if you are the type of company others should keep? Dr. Hobbs explores five ways you can consider whether or not you are the type of person that others would want to be near.
‘LETS GOOO!’ It has become the coined primal yell in the sports world as opponents sprint into competition. And, leaders in any industry sense the need to have this posture for their teams too! Dr. Chris Hobbs describes 5 ways you can be a ‘LETS GOOO!’ leader for your group.
Dr. Chris Hobbs uses the experience of a recent traffic accident to point leaders to the frustration of their own blindspots. You might be driving your team crazy so here’s how to know.
‘It’s so important we just like each other.’ Hear how this quote from a legendary basketball coach prompted Dr. Chris Hobbs to think about the importance of being a likeable teammate. You might not be able to control whether or not you like someone, but you can be in more control of whether or not your team likes you.
‘Bite Down & Don’t Let Go’ is an unusual name for a podcast. On this episode, Dr. Chris Hobbs uses stories from Coach John Calipari and Winston Churchill to describe where the name came from and how it might inspire you.
Belief is powerful moving people to do amazing things, but is it transferable? Can belief be contagious? Dr. Chris Hobbs is often credited with inspiring people to believe. On this episode he provides seven actions a leader can take to make belief contagious
A quick conversation on the leadership ideas of ‘bending the light’ and ‘mixing grace and truth.’
Describing how to lead with our student-athletes and how to lead our student-athletes with clarity.
A brief highlight of the introduction to our summer reading book that I hope challenges you to keep growing in your walk with the Lord.
Director of Athletics, Dr. Chris Hobbs, shares 5 big thoughts with the coaches of The King’s Academy.