From mark.rauterkus at gmail.com Mon Aug 2 18:30:54 2021 From: mark.rauterkus at gmail.com (Mark Rauterkus) Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2021 18:30:54 -0400 Subject: [CLOH-News] New member from Salwa and another special place -- but we'll have to meet in person later Message-ID: Hi Members, We welcome the new ISCA member from Salwa. I didn't know where that was until I visited wikipedia. Do you know? Then we got another new member to welcome from Chattahoochee. Love that name. Who knows where that is located? Both answers are below my signature file, so keep scrolling. + + We got some sad news, we notified all the speakers and those who had signed up to attend for the pending ISCA Hall of Fame Summit and passed along the word that the August 2021 event was going to be postponed to the spring of 2022. The DELTA strain of this COVID is growing like crazy and it is too much of a risk to bring people together in Florida at this time. The website has been updated, but there is no other news, yet. As soon as the Olympic swimming events have ended, and they're not done yet because there are open water swim events yet to come, we're going to do more outreach to the wider community as well. + + + The ISCA senior meet this past week ended with a watch party for Bobby Finke's 1500 race that got a bit of NBC exposure from the grounds of the North Shore Pool in St. Pete. The age group meet starts soon and runs the rest of the meet. Ta. Mark Rauterkus Mark at Rauterkus.com Webmaster, International Swim Coaches Association, SwimISCA.org 412 298 3432 = cell = = = = *Salwa is in Kuwait.* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salwa,_Kuwait *Chattahoochee is a city in FLORIDA, USA.* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chattahoochee,_Florida But the river flows between Alabama and Georgia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chattahoochee_River From mark.rauterkus at gmail.com Wed Aug 11 08:00:00 2021 From: mark.rauterkus at gmail.com (Mark Rauterkus) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 08:00:00 -0400 Subject: [CLOH-News] Motivation -- article following the call to action Message-ID: Hi ISCA Members, Are you getting jazzed for the new season and the next cycle now that the Tokyo Olympics have ended? This email asks for help in the following article, a new entry into the Global Library for ISCA Members. Rip it up and offer your feedback or any extra support and stories that go along with the message -- or counter to it as well. https://read.swimisca.org/courses/global-library-for-isca-members/lessons/learning-what-makes-people-tick/ But, as per the article, I'd love to know more about what makes you tick -- and how to motivate you to dive deeper into the Global Library for ISCA Members. Are there any sticking points that we can work together on, reveal in the Library, or bring to that shared resource in the days and weeks to come? + + In other news, I saw that one member asked about an OPEN WATER SWIM Calendar. Well, ISCA's calendar dates were revealed today on the website. https://SwimISCA.org/save-the-date/ Mark Rauterkus Webmaster-Team at SwimISCA.com 218-400-1500 + + + Get to know the people you are trying to motivate, otherwise, you won?t motivate them. It is that simple. You can?t apply motivational techniques as if they are a recipe for cooking stew. Besides, even when you cook stew, you often deviate from the recipe. You need to get at the heart of who each person is when motivating them. People are different, and you need to consider those differences. Some people are driven using high energy techniques whereas others like a laid-back and subtle approach. To learn about others, you need to learn more about what they are like on a personal level. If you have been avoiding participation in casual conversation after team activities, you may want to start. This doesn?t mean you need to be overly social every day. Your team does need to have time and conversations away from the coaches on occasion. However, you do want to get to know your athletes in a more relaxed and less formal environments. Be yourself and have some extra events: Team meals. Team travel. Team outings, especially for other teams in your community. It?s not likely that your athletes will open up completely when you are attending a social event with them. They still have their guards up. You are the boss and coach after all, and this makes trying to learn about them more challenging. However, as you continue to interact with them outside of the workout setting, they naturally open more. If you negatively use information about the athletes, it is going to backfire. If a young person confides in you, and then you turn it against him or her, you can forget about getting the team to open up to you. News quickly spreads that you are not to be trusted. Therefore, you need to be careful what you do with personal and family information. Sometimes, you have no choice but to use the information. However, don?t take that decision lightly. Motivating others is about formulating a plan that aligns their needs with yours. When you learn what others are about, you can customize each plan accordingly. Discussing these plans with your staff and support team is okay. In fact, it?s great to get their feedback as part of the process. It affects them too, so they should know. You can change plans when you find out about new information or circumstances. Be willing to make those changes, especially if they are in the best interests of those in your charge. Listen to what they say and offer to adjust the plans if it makes sense to do so. They will appreciate you, and you'll find motivating them will take care of itself. Motivating Others Takes Practice If motivating others were easy, everyone would do it. You can?t just read about a few techniques and implement them, expecting major changes to happen. It takes practice like anything else worthwhile. Motivating others requires them to be willing. If someone is hard-set in not doing something, there is little you can do to change that. You may be able to force someone, i.e., if you are on an authoritarian trip. However, that is not the same as motivating them. If you were to leave the scene, they would revert to their previous behaviors. Realize that trying a technique only when the mood strikes is not going to produce results. You must be dedicated to trying the intrinsic motivational pursuits and your team systems, and continue doing so, until you see results with the team's culture take root. However, you also need to determine when something isn?t working after several tries and seek an alternative approach. Unfortunately, there is no magic number as to when to make that determination. Motivating others is about aligning their goals with yours. This alignment could require some compromises in the process. For instance, if you are trying to get one of your athletes to do some additional or extra training, you need to listen to them if they legitimately say they have too much other work. You can?t approach motivation as entirely academic. In other words, if you read about something and try to implement it, you think it should work. If it doesn?t, you may blame the people you are trying to motivate and believe there is something wrong with them. However, some people may be going through stressful situations and may not able to have full-time focus on their athletic pursuits. You need to have compassion for them and factor in human emotions that may be at play. If your motivating pathway isn?t working, you try to find out why. It may be something you are doing that needs to be changed. For instance, are you practicing what you preach? If you are telling everyone that they must double-down on the weekends, but you are unwilling to work yourself, then you are going to experience resistance from your team. You get much better results if you are on the front lines with your troops. Motivation is more about communication than barking orders. Motivation is about getting people to recognize the importance of the work or task at hand. You must allow them to take the initiative and own the problem and their solution. [image: Obstacles and goals] Increase Trust in Yourself You may have a difficult time trusting yourself. Don?t despair. You are not alone. It is something that many people experience, and find difficult to overcome. When you lose trust in others, you start to lose trust in yourself. To help you overcome this problem, you need to focus on key aspects of trust. The first is to have faith in your accomplishments. If you pass off your accomplishments as not being that important, when you need to rely on them, they won?t be there for you. That is sure to interrupt the process of trusting yourself. You need to trust your instincts. You won?t always be right, but you will be more often than not. An instinct is something you feel strongly about and does not come only from experiences. They come from something internal that no one can truly explain. It?s part of that inner voice that is telling you what to do. You need only listen. How many times have you said to yourself that you should have listened to your instincts? You should rely on other people. If you open yourself up to letting others into your life, you find that you become more trusting of yourself. Whether you like it or not, you need other people. Check in with the captains. Check with the assistants and even the volunteer coaches. You can?t know everything there is to know about every subject. Use the strengths of others to supplement what you know. It takes the burden away from you to do everything and know everything. That help opens the possibilities to put trust in yourself. Try to filter out negative information. Coaches can get bombarded with negative information throughout your life, the season and even in some difficult weeks. Negative junk occurs every day in the news, at work, and in many cases, your home. The more you learn to focus on positivity in your life, the easier it is to trust yourself. A good first step towards this goal is to avoid negative people. They work hard to try to bring you down. Trusting yourself sometimes requires a leap of faith. Take some chances. While you want to be smart regarding the risks of your choices, you don?t want to overanalyze every decision you make. If you do, you never make any bold decisions, and you stagnate. It?s true that not everything works out just the way you had hoped. But, you never know unless you try. The good news is when you are ready to try, many of your decisions do work for you and the team and the individual athletes. ### From mark.rauterkus at gmail.com Thu Aug 12 08:29:45 2021 From: mark.rauterkus at gmail.com (Mark Rauterkus) Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 08:29:45 -0400 Subject: [CLOH-News] If you are a techie coach, subscribe to and feed into 412-pals-talk Message-ID: Hi, I'm a fan of programming and coding. I think it should be taught to kids in high school. A niece went to Wash U and started a chapter of "Girls Can Code" -- a club. That's kewl. I figure on most teams there are one or two per grade that have a desire and the abilities to do deeper dives in tech, helping first with the home team and then, perhaps, branching out into greater community efforts. One, of many problems is that there are few educational resources that fit well into the K-12 school setting. And, the tools that are there are not robust once the end of the line arrives. Then, it is back to square one with a new environment. So, most of this tech learning comes in an independent fashion. Figure out the ich you want to scratch and go to work with lots of trial and error. Learn by doing. One subdomain, https://Code.SwimISCA.org, has an email list, 412-Pals-Talk that is open and it gets interesting tidbits when I see them. Archive at https://pairlist10.pair.net/pipermail/412-pals-talk/ If you love tech things in sports and swimming, it would be great to have you subscribe and also feed into that archives too for the sake of shared enrichment. Then, as something special comes along, we'll blog about it too. Website: https://Code.SwimISCA.org -- Ta. Mark Rauterkus Mark at Rauterkus.com Webmaster, International Swim Coaches Association, SwimISCA.org Executive Director of SKWIM USA, a 501(c)(3), SKWIM.us The Pittsburgh Project - swim coach and head lifeguard Coach at The Ellis School for Swimming, T&F and Triathlon Pittsburgh Combined Water Polo Team & Renegades (Masters) CLOH.org & Rauterkus.com & 4Rs.org 412 298 3432 = cell From mark.rauterkus at gmail.com Mon Aug 2 18:30:54 2021 From: mark.rauterkus at gmail.com (Mark Rauterkus) Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2021 18:30:54 -0400 Subject: [CLOH-News] New member from Salwa and another special place -- but we'll have to meet in person later Message-ID: Hi Members, We welcome the new ISCA member from Salwa. I didn't know where that was until I visited wikipedia. Do you know? Then we got another new member to welcome from Chattahoochee. Love that name. Who knows where that is located? Both answers are below my signature file, so keep scrolling. + + We got some sad news, we notified all the speakers and those who had signed up to attend for the pending ISCA Hall of Fame Summit and passed along the word that the August 2021 event was going to be postponed to the spring of 2022. The DELTA strain of this COVID is growing like crazy and it is too much of a risk to bring people together in Florida at this time. The website has been updated, but there is no other news, yet. As soon as the Olympic swimming events have ended, and they're not done yet because there are open water swim events yet to come, we're going to do more outreach to the wider community as well. + + + The ISCA senior meet this past week ended with a watch party for Bobby Finke's 1500 race that got a bit of NBC exposure from the grounds of the North Shore Pool in St. Pete. The age group meet starts soon and runs the rest of the meet. Ta. Mark Rauterkus Mark at Rauterkus.com Webmaster, International Swim Coaches Association, SwimISCA.org 412 298 3432 = cell = = = = *Salwa is in Kuwait.* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salwa,_Kuwait *Chattahoochee is a city in FLORIDA, USA.* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chattahoochee,_Florida But the river flows between Alabama and Georgia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chattahoochee_River From mark.rauterkus at gmail.com Wed Aug 11 08:00:00 2021 From: mark.rauterkus at gmail.com (Mark Rauterkus) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 08:00:00 -0400 Subject: [CLOH-News] Motivation -- article following the call to action Message-ID: Hi ISCA Members, Are you getting jazzed for the new season and the next cycle now that the Tokyo Olympics have ended? This email asks for help in the following article, a new entry into the Global Library for ISCA Members. Rip it up and offer your feedback or any extra support and stories that go along with the message -- or counter to it as well. https://read.swimisca.org/courses/global-library-for-isca-members/lessons/learning-what-makes-people-tick/ But, as per the article, I'd love to know more about what makes you tick -- and how to motivate you to dive deeper into the Global Library for ISCA Members. Are there any sticking points that we can work together on, reveal in the Library, or bring to that shared resource in the days and weeks to come? + + In other news, I saw that one member asked about an OPEN WATER SWIM Calendar. Well, ISCA's calendar dates were revealed today on the website. https://SwimISCA.org/save-the-date/ Mark Rauterkus Webmaster-Team at SwimISCA.com 218-400-1500 + + + Get to know the people you are trying to motivate, otherwise, you won?t motivate them. It is that simple. You can?t apply motivational techniques as if they are a recipe for cooking stew. Besides, even when you cook stew, you often deviate from the recipe. You need to get at the heart of who each person is when motivating them. People are different, and you need to consider those differences. Some people are driven using high energy techniques whereas others like a laid-back and subtle approach. To learn about others, you need to learn more about what they are like on a personal level. If you have been avoiding participation in casual conversation after team activities, you may want to start. This doesn?t mean you need to be overly social every day. Your team does need to have time and conversations away from the coaches on occasion. However, you do want to get to know your athletes in a more relaxed and less formal environments. Be yourself and have some extra events: Team meals. Team travel. Team outings, especially for other teams in your community. It?s not likely that your athletes will open up completely when you are attending a social event with them. They still have their guards up. You are the boss and coach after all, and this makes trying to learn about them more challenging. However, as you continue to interact with them outside of the workout setting, they naturally open more. If you negatively use information about the athletes, it is going to backfire. If a young person confides in you, and then you turn it against him or her, you can forget about getting the team to open up to you. News quickly spreads that you are not to be trusted. Therefore, you need to be careful what you do with personal and family information. Sometimes, you have no choice but to use the information. However, don?t take that decision lightly. Motivating others is about formulating a plan that aligns their needs with yours. When you learn what others are about, you can customize each plan accordingly. Discussing these plans with your staff and support team is okay. In fact, it?s great to get their feedback as part of the process. It affects them too, so they should know. You can change plans when you find out about new information or circumstances. Be willing to make those changes, especially if they are in the best interests of those in your charge. Listen to what they say and offer to adjust the plans if it makes sense to do so. They will appreciate you, and you'll find motivating them will take care of itself. Motivating Others Takes Practice If motivating others were easy, everyone would do it. You can?t just read about a few techniques and implement them, expecting major changes to happen. It takes practice like anything else worthwhile. Motivating others requires them to be willing. If someone is hard-set in not doing something, there is little you can do to change that. You may be able to force someone, i.e., if you are on an authoritarian trip. However, that is not the same as motivating them. If you were to leave the scene, they would revert to their previous behaviors. Realize that trying a technique only when the mood strikes is not going to produce results. You must be dedicated to trying the intrinsic motivational pursuits and your team systems, and continue doing so, until you see results with the team's culture take root. However, you also need to determine when something isn?t working after several tries and seek an alternative approach. Unfortunately, there is no magic number as to when to make that determination. Motivating others is about aligning their goals with yours. This alignment could require some compromises in the process. For instance, if you are trying to get one of your athletes to do some additional or extra training, you need to listen to them if they legitimately say they have too much other work. You can?t approach motivation as entirely academic. In other words, if you read about something and try to implement it, you think it should work. If it doesn?t, you may blame the people you are trying to motivate and believe there is something wrong with them. However, some people may be going through stressful situations and may not able to have full-time focus on their athletic pursuits. You need to have compassion for them and factor in human emotions that may be at play. If your motivating pathway isn?t working, you try to find out why. It may be something you are doing that needs to be changed. For instance, are you practicing what you preach? If you are telling everyone that they must double-down on the weekends, but you are unwilling to work yourself, then you are going to experience resistance from your team. You get much better results if you are on the front lines with your troops. Motivation is more about communication than barking orders. Motivation is about getting people to recognize the importance of the work or task at hand. You must allow them to take the initiative and own the problem and their solution. [image: Obstacles and goals] Increase Trust in Yourself You may have a difficult time trusting yourself. Don?t despair. You are not alone. It is something that many people experience, and find difficult to overcome. When you lose trust in others, you start to lose trust in yourself. To help you overcome this problem, you need to focus on key aspects of trust. The first is to have faith in your accomplishments. If you pass off your accomplishments as not being that important, when you need to rely on them, they won?t be there for you. That is sure to interrupt the process of trusting yourself. You need to trust your instincts. You won?t always be right, but you will be more often than not. An instinct is something you feel strongly about and does not come only from experiences. They come from something internal that no one can truly explain. It?s part of that inner voice that is telling you what to do. You need only listen. How many times have you said to yourself that you should have listened to your instincts? You should rely on other people. If you open yourself up to letting others into your life, you find that you become more trusting of yourself. Whether you like it or not, you need other people. Check in with the captains. Check with the assistants and even the volunteer coaches. You can?t know everything there is to know about every subject. Use the strengths of others to supplement what you know. It takes the burden away from you to do everything and know everything. That help opens the possibilities to put trust in yourself. Try to filter out negative information. Coaches can get bombarded with negative information throughout your life, the season and even in some difficult weeks. Negative junk occurs every day in the news, at work, and in many cases, your home. The more you learn to focus on positivity in your life, the easier it is to trust yourself. A good first step towards this goal is to avoid negative people. They work hard to try to bring you down. Trusting yourself sometimes requires a leap of faith. Take some chances. While you want to be smart regarding the risks of your choices, you don?t want to overanalyze every decision you make. If you do, you never make any bold decisions, and you stagnate. It?s true that not everything works out just the way you had hoped. But, you never know unless you try. The good news is when you are ready to try, many of your decisions do work for you and the team and the individual athletes. ### From mark.rauterkus at gmail.com Thu Aug 12 08:29:45 2021 From: mark.rauterkus at gmail.com (Mark Rauterkus) Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 08:29:45 -0400 Subject: [CLOH-News] If you are a techie coach, subscribe to and feed into 412-pals-talk Message-ID: Hi, I'm a fan of programming and coding. I think it should be taught to kids in high school. A niece went to Wash U and started a chapter of "Girls Can Code" -- a club. That's kewl. I figure on most teams there are one or two per grade that have a desire and the abilities to do deeper dives in tech, helping first with the home team and then, perhaps, branching out into greater community efforts. One, of many problems is that there are few educational resources that fit well into the K-12 school setting. And, the tools that are there are not robust once the end of the line arrives. Then, it is back to square one with a new environment. So, most of this tech learning comes in an independent fashion. Figure out the ich you want to scratch and go to work with lots of trial and error. Learn by doing. One subdomain, https://Code.SwimISCA.org, has an email list, 412-Pals-Talk that is open and it gets interesting tidbits when I see them. Archive at https://pairlist10.pair.net/pipermail/412-pals-talk/ If you love tech things in sports and swimming, it would be great to have you subscribe and also feed into that archives too for the sake of shared enrichment. Then, as something special comes along, we'll blog about it too. Website: https://Code.SwimISCA.org -- Ta. Mark Rauterkus Mark at Rauterkus.com Webmaster, International Swim Coaches Association, SwimISCA.org Executive Director of SKWIM USA, a 501(c)(3), SKWIM.us The Pittsburgh Project - swim coach and head lifeguard Coach at The Ellis School for Swimming, T&F and Triathlon Pittsburgh Combined Water Polo Team & Renegades (Masters) CLOH.org & Rauterkus.com & 4Rs.org 412 298 3432 = cell