Chelsea: How often do you feel like your dancers are just being lazy? Hi, it’s Dr. Chelsea! Welcome to the Passion for Dance podcast. Today’s episode is about effort, what full out really means, and how to help your dancers give more effort in practice. It was inspired by one of you, Coach Alaina, who …
Episode 113: Don’t Just Insist on More Effort From Your Dancers, There Is a Better Way Summary: When we think our dancers are being lazy or don’t care, we tend to yell for full out and push for more energy because we assume the dancers aren’t giving us their full effort. But what actually is …
Episode 112: Communication Chelsea: For dance coaches and teachers, we are the role model for how we want to communicate in our programs and our studios and our teams. We establish the rules and expectations for how to talk to each other and what healthy communication looks like. It starts with us. So, today, let’s …
Episode 112: 7 Tips for Effective Communication Between Coaches and Athletes Summary: Summary: Healthy communication with our dancers starts with us dance coaches and teachers. We’re the role models for how we want to communicate in our programs and our studios and our teams. We establish the rules and expectations for how to talk to …
Episode 111: Dance Specialists Collab Chelsea: Hi, it’s Dr. Chelsea! Welcome to the Passion for Dance podcast, and I have something really special for you today. It’s not just an interview with one person. It’s an epic collaboration with six dance specialists. We’re all sharing our points of view about our dance training. You’ll hear …
Episode 111: 6 Dance Science Experts Share How They Would Change Dance Education Summary: Today’s episode is an epic collaboration of six dance specialists and dance business owners. It’s a re-release of an episode of my friend Jeanne’s podcast, The Feis Fit Podcast. We all got together to record for her show, and she graciously …
Episode 110: Team Bonding Part 3 Chelsea: Hi, it’s Dr. Chelsea! Welcome to the Passion for Dance podcast where we talk about mindset, motivation, and resilience in dance. Today is part three of a three-part series on team building. So, if you missed the first two, pause, go back to episode 108 and 109, and …
Episode 110: 5 Practical Tips for Team Building like Creating a 5-Star Practice Summary: Today’s episode is part three of a three-part series on team building. In the first two episodes of the series, we talked about the two different types of cohesion that your dancers are striving for, and we covered the four different …
Chelsea: Hi, it’s Dr. Chelsea! Welcome to the Passion for Dance podcast where we talk about mindset, motivation, and resilience in dance. Today is part two of a three-part series on team building. So, if you missed the first one, pause, go back an episode to 108, then come right back here. Last time, we …
Episode 109: 4 Simple Factors that Influence Your Dance Team’s Unity Summary: Establishing cohesion and unity among a group of dancers is an ongoing process, and anyone who’s been a teacher or a coach for more than one year will probably tell you every group is different. One big reason why each group is different …
Chelsea: Hi, it’s Dr. Chelsea! Welcome to the Passion for Dance podcast where we talk about mindset, motivation, and resilience in dance. Today, we’re gonna talk about team bonding and building that strong social culture for your dancers, but it’s more than social. Did you know there are two types of team bonding? Well, there …
Episode 108: The 2 Types of Effective Team Bonding You Need This Summer Summary: Summary: Did you know there are two types of team bonding? I know many coaches believe that if dancers spend time together, both in and out of practice, they will bond. However, if you’re not strategic about this, your team bonding …
