3 Habits of Highly Efficient Sports Coaches

Learn to use time wisely & meet the app youth coaches call time-saving, super-simple and “the best for sports teams”.

Running a sports team is a time-consuming task. Elite sports coaches all seem to share one essential skill. Efficiency — the ability to accomplish more in less time.

Top coaches get large budgets and armies of paid assistants to achieve this. These are in short supply in youth sport. At Heja, our passion is helping youth coaches streamline your workload and unlock more time to spend where it matters: helping young athletes grow.

Our time-saving team management app is just one step towards getting more productive. Here’s 3 game-changing habits practiced by some of the world’s most efficient coaches.👇

Sir Alex Ferguson might be the most successful coach of all time. Throughout his career, the legendary Manchester United FC manager followed one golden rule.

He delegated any task he believed somebody else could perform just as well. “It was the best thing I ever did,” said Ferguson in an interview looking back on his successes.

For youth coaches, sharing responsibility with volunteer assistants, team parents or even willing players doesn’t always come naturally. But there’s strength in asking for help and trusting others to complete tasks for you. All great coaches do it.

The benefits are plenty: you get more productive, they gain a sense of purpose and you’ll see a greater sense of accountability develop in your group — something Sir Alex Ferguson’s world-beating Manchester United teams were famed for!

Studies have found that in the workplace happy employees are up to 20% more productive than unhappy employees.

Same goes for coaches, who want to spend their time coaching. That means tweaking tactics, planning practice and devoting one-on-one coaching time to kids eager to improve. Happily, the more time you give to tasks that bring you joy, the more productive you’ll actually be.

Easier said than done though, right? A youth coach’s to-do-list runs for several pages. So finding time to focus on what you love means freeing up hours from the more mundane tasks stealing your productivity. We’ll get onto that below.

Okay, this one’s just for youth coaches. And it’s not as mean as it sounds!

Team parents mean well. All they want is the best for their daughter or son. But it’s true — keeping parents organized can be a major pain when running a youth sports team.

A coach’s purpose is to help players learn, grow and improve. But in reality — with only a few practice hours each week to coach the kids — youth coaches often wind up devoting as much attention to the adults.

Some youth coaches spend more one-on-one time responding to texts, calls or emails from team parents than one-on-one time coaching that parent’s son or daughter.

At Heja, we love team parents but we believe that’s backwards. And we want to help. To get truly efficient, coaches must drastically cut down the time spent communicating with individual team parents and concentrate instead on the kids who really need them!

We know team parents need to know three things:

And you need to know if their child is actually going to be there!

But we don’t think you need to waste time addressing these same queries with each parent one-by-one. In fact, we know you don’t.

As we said, our passion is helping out youth coaches.

So we streamlined the whole team communication process into one (totally free) app, where coaches keep parents fully informed at high-speed using the minimum number of interactions and saving tons of time.

Efficient, huh. 😎

And — as coach Coach Scott Mitchell says about the Heja app — extremely simple too: “Easy enough for even the most non-technical guy/girl/parent on your team.”

We’re super proud to help thousands of teams like Scott’s stay connected. But we’re too humble to talk up our app anymore ourselves.

If you’d like to try Heja, it’s 100% free and you can set up your team in less than a minute. Otherwise read more from real coaches below on how the app has helped them get more efficient!

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