Dr. David Hoch
- Challenges of hiring & retaining coaches
- Establishing better work-life balance
- Efforts to create better relationships between coaches and officials
- Steps to lead to better mental health for ADs
- A.D.ministration: Sportsmanship starts with the A.D.
- A.D.ministration: Organizing Awards Programs
- Leaving a Worthwhile Legacy as an Athletic Director
- A.D.ministration: Upgrading Your Facilities
- A.D.ministration — Limiting Problems by Effectively Communicating with Parents
- A.D.ministration: Dealing with Wayward Fans
- A.D.ministration: Improving Flawed Messaging
- The Challenge of Hiring Quality Coaches
- 9 Tips for First-Time Athletic Directors
- A.D.ministration: The AD & The ATC
- A.D.ministration: Developing a Pragmatic Mindset
- A.D.ministration: 10 Ways for Working with Difficult Parents
- A.D.ministration: Becoming More Efficient
- Guiding Coaches to create Positive Working-Relationships with Student-Athletes
- A.D.ministration: 10 Tips to Combat Participation Decline
- 11 Tips In Finding Volunteers & Support Personnel
- The AD’s Role in Fan Control
- Dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic
- Considerations for raising ticket prices
- Transitioning athletes into team managers
- Projecting authority as a new coach
- 6 tips to help coaches bounce back after a loss
- A.D.ministration: Supporting and protecting your coaches
- A.D.ministration: Leading your program in times of change
- A.D.ministration: Alleviating concerns over football safety
- A.D.ministration: Planning strategies for athletic directors
- A.D.ministration: The evolving athletic director position
- A.D.ministration: Facing time constraints, new responsibilities
- Underpaid & Underappreciated
- Creating an emergency plan for athletic programs
- Getting principal, superintendent support against combative sports parents
- The athletic director’s path to certification
- Coach certification is vital to schools
- Hiring the coaching dream team
- A.D.ministration: Planning for the preseason parents meeting
- Help for coaches on the job hunt
- A.D.ministration: Repairing a program’s damaged culture
- A.D.ministration: Honoring your coaches and athletes
- A.D.ministration: Athletic fundraising in small communities
- A.D.ministration: Developing and sustaining quality coaches
- The work-life balancing act of athletic directors
- A.D.ministration: Principles for negotiating and mediating
- Handling frustration in the athletic director position
- Dealing with parental interference in coaching
- When booster clubs hijack athletic program funds
- A.D.ministration: Maxims for athletic directors to live by
- Help for the overwhelmed athletic administrator
- A.D.ministration: Getting more from professional experiences
- A.D.ministration: Improving your LinkedIn presence
- A.D.ministration: 7 tips for supporting every single sport
- Take advantage of professional development courses
- A.D.ministration: 8 ideas to help fund coach, AD education
- A.D.ministration: Promoting ethics in high school sports
- A.D.ministration: The importance of supervision
- A.D.ministration: Hazing continues to be a problem
- A.D.ministration: Surviving and thriving with committee work
- A.D.ministration: Is your job safe?
- Promoting your athletic program to the community
- Communication 101 for the athletic director
- Combating increased violence at games
- Dealing with parents and playing time issues
- The 13 deadly sins for athletic directors
- Words matter: Helping your coaches communicate
- How athletic directors can act when delegation isn’t possible
- The Three Most Important A.D. Qualities
- Answering the question: What’s an athletic director?
- Negotiations and the athletic director
- The A.D. as the public relations practitioner
- A.D.ministration: Conducting effective, efficient meetings
- A.D.ministration: Providing help for the athletic director
- 16 lessons for guiding non-teacher coaches
- 7 things to consider when interviewing for the AD job
- Game management in the athletic director’s absence
- Preparing for the athletic director interview
- 11 ways to revamp your to-do list and get more done
- A.D.ministration: Preparing a mobile emergency center
- Conducting interviews with prospective coaches
- 12 tips to perfect your ticket-selling process
- A.D.ministration: ‘No’ isn’t a bad word
- Take advantage of professional development for coaches
- A.D.ministration: Helping coaches transition out of your school
- How athletic departments operate like organizations
- Athletic directors are responsible for coach certification
- Eight rules for a successful silent auction
- A.D.ministration: Beyond the tip of the iceberg
- How micromanagement hurts athletic directors
- Balancing the athletic director job with family
- Handling frustration in the athletic administrator position
- Measuring the success of your athletic program
- Interviewing candidates for your coaching vacancy
- Annual checkup: Helping ADs evaluate their programs
- Use E-mail to Your Advantage
- Mentoring the coaches in your program
- Every Minute Counts
- Controlling Interruptions
- Contingency Plans
- Timing is Everything
- The three most important qualities for athletic directors
- The Dearth of Women Athletic Directors
- Surviving the slings and arrows
- Protecting coaches from combative, malicious parents
- Professional Involvement
- Little Things Can Make a Difference
- How athletic directors can overcome, survive mistakes
- How to Work with Someone You Don’t Like
- Helping Whenever It Is Needed!
- Help with the Recruiting Process
- Game scheduling basics for coaches, athletic administrators
- For Better Organization
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Teach kids to pay attention to their bodies and their own thirst, and to “drink to thirst”—that is, drink enough water so that the thirst recedes. Rehydrate between sports events/practices.
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