Welcome to the Hardwood Hustle podcast where we know and believe in the value of a coach.

We're here to educate, empower, and encourage you to lead like never before.

In today's episode, we ask a very important question.

In fact, it could be a question that is the most important question you ask yourself as a coach.

Is your team's leadership an asset or an obstacle?

And that question, although it seems very simple on the surface, it's very abstract.

It gets to layers and details, which we'll go through throughout the episode.

We'll share various identifiers you can assess within your own program to make that

determination to see if your program's leadership is indeed an asset or an obstacle.

This episode could change everything for your program.

Get your notepad ready, coaches.

It's time to jump in.

TJ, I don't know if this is the single most important question coaches need to ask.

If not, I'd put it up there near the top. A question,

is your team's leadership an asset or an obstacle? This thought process, is it an asset or an

obstacle? Is it something that is of value, something that we rely on that is a strength within our program, or is it something

that we have to fight against, where we have to overcome as an obstacle? I think if you're a coach

and you get asked that question, you begin to ponder that question, you may find yourself saying

it's neutral, right? I think a lot of coaches, if honest, would say maybe I'm somewhere in the middle. I wouldn't go as far as to say it's a strength of our program, but also, you know, we've got pretty good kids. You know, I wouldn't say it's an obstacle. So it's somewhat neutral. And I'd actually argue that, TJ. I actually think if you're saying it's a fairly neutral, it's just kind of in the middle there,

I would actually say that leans more than towards being an obstacle.

Because you may not think of it as an obstacle in this moment because you're not having to

necessarily overcome it.

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