Our world is in what I would call “Cultural Chaos.” Whatever happened to “live and let live” or perhaps more accurately “be and let be?” I have been a keen observer of human behavior and the struggles involved since I was six years old. I have no scientific data or empirical proof my viewpoint. I [...]
This past week’s Sports Illustrated featured tonight’s football game for the National Championship between the University of Oregon and Ohio State University. It is the culmination of the first real playoff in Division I college football. In this issue there was another article, one by Seth Davis about someone I have always loved spending time [...]
Today is the first day of the second workshop we have done at Providence College over the past few days. We worked with the lacrosse team last weekend and are working with the softball team starting this afternoon. The work we are doing is called Building a Championship Team, and we have been teaching this [...]
A couple of weeks ago the best basketball team I ever coached at the community college level had a reunion in Las Vegas. Even though we were a California team, we felt that Las Vegas would attract the largest number of team members. Also, we had athletes from both coasts on the team. Of course, [...]
For me, the context for working with people has been “relationship is the key to everything.” If we know that, why is life so difficult sometimes? Maybe we don’t really appreciate the simplicity of relating and we are making our relationships complex. Could it be that we think we are not going to get what [...]
I have noticed as time goes by very quickly that I have the urge to write about my life and the people in it. These people are those that I have had contact with but also include those that I admired for their talent and/or contribution to my life as well as to society in [...]
Something that continues to bother me is the lack of respect shown to each other by people of all ages, but especially our young folks. Disrespect for their elders, teachers, coaches and peers and especially each other. You can say I am old school. I’m not hip. I’m not cool. Don’t waste your breath. I [...]
This past week, the basketballl world lost a great participant in the game he loved. His name is Bill Sharman and he was my idol and my friend. We both called Porteville, CA (I was born there) our home and we actually coached in the NBA (Los Angeles and Portland) at the same time. Not [...]
It is such a killer of teams, individuals and projects of all kinds. The heart of our survival “machinery” is the reaction that stops the action, deters people from playing 100% and mostly leaves a trail of broken relationships, dissatisfied participants and a waste of a great possibility. That reaction is being “right,” which requires [...]
The basic theme of the work we do at Todd Team Coaching is that “Relationship is the Key to Everything.” If only people would live that theme, the world would be a different place. This weekend I was in a sea of relationships. I arrived in beautiful Seattle, Washington late on Friday morning. My purpose [...]