The 4-step process even if you’re not a planner! Summer is often a time of vacations and relaxing, but also, intensives and summer camps, and usually whole love of planning! If you are someone like me who loves a good planner, color codes everything and enjoys mapping out your season, I’m excited to share my …
The 3 Things You Need to Master to Be a Coach with Impact In this episode, I share my Positive Coaching Framework. I know, and YOU know, that being a dance coach with a positive impact is more than teaching dance skills and helping your dancers perform well and achieve competitive success. I’ve talked before …
Without Hurting Your Dancers? In this episode, I talk about the need for a little tough love in coaching. I’m not telling you to be mean and rude, but there is a time and place when it is our job to challenge our dancers. It’s a common misconception that positive coaching means going easy on …
Why our dancers need our help more than ever… Today’s episode features two special guests, who are both professionally accomplished and exceptional dance educators. As I say in the episode, sometimes you just click with people right away because you are grounded in the same philosophy and approach to life, which is why I clicked …
Ep. 59 – Advice from Passionate Dance Educators Joe Nickel & Michelle Tolson Read More »
An important mindset shift after a hard day… Coaching and teaching dance is hard, it’s really rewarding, but hard. It’s easy to feel beat down sometimes. When your dancers aren’t listening, when the parents are pushing every last button, when your hardworking dancers aren’t seeing the competitive success you wish for them… it can feel …
To Be an Influential Leader This episode is a continuation of last week where I talked about 3 of the key qualities to look for in a captain. If you choose to have formal leaders, I believe choosing a captain is one of the first and sometimes more difficult decisions you make at the beginning …
Choosing leadership is a big decision If you choose to have captains or formal leaders of any kind on your team, that choice can shape your entire season. And I believe the choice of who makes a good dance team leader has nothing to do with dance technique! When you are thinking about who will …
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You Are Not Alone I feel like many of us are having a hard time lately. There’s a lot of burnout, overwhelm, and negativity. And I get it! There are so many reasons why our work is hard right now. But you aren’t alone. And sometimes we all need a little pick-me-up and reassurance that …
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Dealing with success isn’t always easy… Have your dancers ever experienced success at competition, and then started to back off on the hard work that got them there and act like they can coast through the rest of the season? Hi, I’m Dr. Chelsea and this phenomenon of slacking off after success is not something …
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Don’t Avoid Team Conflict… Positive team culture doesn’t happen overnight, and it doesn’t happen without a lot of effort and intentional team building. But in today’s episode, I want to share the 4 step process of how to go from a group to a team. And spoiler alert… it includes conflict. You have to go …
Ep. 53- 1 Big Reason Team Conflict Isn’t A Bad Thing Read More »
