Mike Neighbors: 40+ Indicators that It's You (Not Your Players) Sabotaging Your Team's Success!

with Mike Neighbors,
Dallas Wings (WNBA) Assistant Coach;
Los Angeles Sparks (WNBA) Assistant Coach from 2025 to 2026;
Arkansas Women's Head Coach from 2017 to 2025;
Washington Women's Head Coach from 2013 to 2017;
2016 NCAA Final Four;
Washington Assistant Coach from 2011 to 2013;
Xavier Assistant Coach from 2007 to 2010;
2008 Elite Eight;
has had 11 players drafted in the WNBA;
2009 BasketballScoop.com/ONS Performance 'Rising Star' award

In this enlightening presentation, you will see why Mike Neighbors has made a name for himself as one of the great teachers of the game. Coach Neighbors draws from the many mistakes that he has observed and committed himself over his career to discuss over 30 ways that you can improve your coaching. These topics cover every aspect to the profession - from leadership, to teaching, to relationships, to in-game strategy. This video should be mandatory viewing for every basketball coach. Rarely will a presentation stimulate reflection of your own coaching practices like this!

Owning and Leading Your Team

Do you take ownership for your own impact on the team? Coach Neighbors will challenge you with examples of how coaches deflect problems in ways that can stymy their program's growth or develop rifts in team unity. These points will give you specific ideas for channeling your own frustrations into productivity that benefits your players. You'll learn how you can build a stronger team culture through humility and selflessness.

Effective leaders provide clarity to their organization about the things that are most important. Can your players articulate your style of play? Do your coaches speak the same language? Do parents understand why their child isn't playing more? Coach Neighbors demonstrates how coaches can unintentionally sabotage their own efforts with more than 10 examples of coaching-created confusion. You will gain insight into the value of simplicity for emphasizing the things that matter. Neighbors will challenge your philosophy of communication with players and parents. You will be presented with questions that help you consider whether the strategic elements of your teaching methodology and basketball tactics are really in alignment.

Becoming a Role Model and Teacher

Are you leading by example? Coach Neighbors shares ways that leaders can undermine their own authenticity with hypocritical behavior. This introspection will make you a better role model of the standards that you expect. These ideas will help you create a more united environment in your locker room with enhanced accountability and mutual trust.

Neighbors also shows how you can be a better teacher by doing less! Through three specific examples, you will see how over-teaching can actually detract from your message and result in less growth amongst your players.

This video from Coach Neighbors will challenge you, and may even make you uncomfortable. However, it is guaranteed to spur you into becoming a better coach and leader for your players!

61 minutes. 2021.