More Than Football – Bill George, Retired Head Coach, US Coast Guard Academy

How do you best serve the school or institution you are at? How does serving create a synergistic effect with buy-in? What can we do to create more leaders? How do we find a better balance in this profession?

Those are all questions we dive into with Bill George, retired head coach of the US Coast Guard Academy.

Coach George spent 21 seasons as the head football coach at the US Coast Guard Academy, where he used football as a vehicle to help build leaders. He recently wrote a book titled Home Fields: Coast Guard Academy Football Coach Recounts the Unfulfilled Lives of World War II. In this episode, Coach George digs into a number of topics from his book, the importance of understanding the people being served, and how to mold more and better leaders.

Show Notes:

• Key to Longevity
• Understanding the People Being Served
• What Are the Goals of These People?
• Football Is a Vehicle
• Always Taking a Positive Approach
• Setting and Keeping the Bar High
• Give People More Leadership Roles
• Synergistic Effect on Buy-In
• Making Players Communicate In-Person
• Main Idea Behind Home Fields
• Ideas on a Better Way for Sundays and Mondays
• Balance in the Coaching Profession

More more information on Home Fields, visit https://homefieldsbook.com.

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