3 Easy Ways To Solve Playing Time Drama!

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Coaches, if you’ve ever faced issues with playing time confusion, you’re not alone. Whether you're battling it in a championship-winning season or a tough rebuild, it’s a challenge we all face. In this episode, I’m sharing the exact strategies I use to define roles, communicate expectations clearly, and have regular check-ins to keep everything on track. These steps have drastically reduced confusion and eliminated drama on my teams!

🎙 I’m Coach Bre, a mental performance coach for girl athletes, Co-Founder of The Elite Competitor, and a 4-time state championship-winning volleyball coach with 14 years of experience. Let’s dive into how you can avoid playing time headaches and create a cohesive, focused team.
 
🎯 Here’s what you’ll learn:
✅ How to clearly define roles on your team 
✅ The exact way I run 1:1 Player Impact Plan meetings with athletes
✅ My simple bi-weekly check-in system that keeps players focused and clears up confusion fast
 
These steps have drastically reduced frustration, drama, and second-guessing around playing time—and they’ll help your team too.

🕓 Key Moments
00:00 Introduction to Playing Time Issues
00:27 Defining Roles on Your Team
00:58 Communicating Roles Clearly
01:29 Implementing Player Impact Plans
01:37 Regular Check-ins with Players
02:35 Conclusion and Further Resources

📢 COACHES – What’s your biggest challenge with playing time right now? Drop it in the comments below 👇
 
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Transcript

1:05

If you're a coach who has ever had playing time issues on your team, which let's be honest, as coaches who hasn't, then I am gonna go over the three things that have made playing time, things, playing time issues, playing time concerns, players, parents, a lot easier for me. And I've been coaching for 14 years, coached four state championship teams, and I've also had seasons where I won one game the full time. And both those seasons have something in common. Playing time, things came up. So over the years I've really been honing in three things that have made a big difference. Number one, make sure that you define roles. Maybe you already have some of this established, but like actually take time to define what the roles are on your team. So I'm talking like not just starter, non-starter, micro coach t volleyball. So it's like. Are they a six rotation player or a front row player or a back row player? Are they a go-to player? Are they a backup player? What's the actual positioner? Are they outside hit or a middle hitter? Are they a like specialist? Okay, are they serving specialist, a blocking sub? Things like that. Like be very clear on what roles exist on your team. So that's number one. Number two, clearly communicate the roles. So I actually sit down with every one of my athletes at the beginning of the season and we go over what's called the player impact pram. And it's like. A plan that I create for each player about a week, a week and a half into the season after I've kind of seen a lot of things. We've had a first like jamboree and I sit down and I tell'em exactly what their role is, what clang time is associated with that role, where I see their areas of improvement, where their areas of strength, it's like a whole document and I actually share it with their parents. So their parents are also on the same page with like what their role is and what the playing time associated with that role is Now. If you wanna know more about player impact plans, I have a video that I'll link right now, or you can go check that out. I have a whole video on how I lay it out and the template that I use and all of that. And number three, have regular check-ins. About five years ago, I decided to have regular bi-weekly meetings, like standing meetings with everyone in my players. So I have 12 players on my varsity team. We meet, it's very simple. We go over the same three questions every time, like, what's going well? What are you working on? And then like my feedback, especially when it comes to what their role is. Is it the same role? Are they working towards a different role? Where do we need to keep honing in things, things like that. But it's like a five to 10 minute at max meeting with every one of my players biweekly. So they know it's on the calendar. They know like that's built into their schedule. They can come with questions, things like that. And that's cleared up so much confusion when it comes to some of this role, role issue and playing tennis issues. Because when players don't know and like, I feel like I in the past had always communicated it well where I thought like players knew. They don't. And when they don't, they actually create stories in their head of what they think it is. And typically it's not a good story. And so having those built-in meetings has really been a game changer. So those are the three things that I have been really honing in on. It's, I wouldn't say eliminated all the things, but it is drastically reduced. The confusion around playing time roles, all of that. It's made a big difference. If you wanna know, again, the player impact plan that I use, um, head to the next video because that lays it out and. That has been a game changer, especially at the beginning of the season, so go check that out next.