Get the equipment out. Check attendance. Run the practice. Clean up. Take yourself home. Repeat. There is never enough time to be still. With your busy schedule and all the demands on you, you probably haven’t even considered pausing to reflect, but your improvement depends on it. So how can you build the time in? By using the time you already have and making it a part of what you already do.
You already run practices, use that time. Ask your players what they thought of the previous session during warm ups, or end with reflection questions during the cool down. Or of course you could use the impromptu moments with the quick conversations that come up. Or when you are putting together your practice plan for the week, you can start with how things went the last time and consider what you might want to change as a result.
In an ideal world, you would have at least ten minutes after every session and game to debrief with your players and fellow coaches. But you are probably not living in that ideal world. Instead, you need ways to make this easy. What are some the specific ways you’re able to build reflection in to how you run your programming?
The Sideline Fix 
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