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Mission Driven Communicator and Coach

Feels like a "Tim Day" today Here's an excellent addendum to my previous post on the HIGH SKILLS that can be developed from coaching

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Mankato West High School’s football team was perennially winless until shortly after Tim Walz’s arrival. The previous season, the varsity team didn’t score a touchdown through the first six weeks. Three years later, in 1999, they won the state championship. “Was Walz a tactical genius? Was he responsible for turning the team around? I asked some of his former players, and others around the team at the time,” Louisa Thomas writes. “What made the biggest impression was his steady positivity.” Thomas writes about Coach Walz—who taught his players more about togetherness than tactics: https://lnkd.in/gbYPA6VV

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