Season 1 · EP 7 · Sport inside out

Basketball coach: talent, discipline and management

With Toni Mesa, basketball coach. Talent, discipline and managing people from the bench: how you run a dressing room and what it teaches you about any team.

A coach is a manager with twelve employees on different salaries who do not get along. Toni explains how you handle that, how you correct someone with talent, and why discipline is not shouting.

What this episode covers

How you spot talent that is not performing yet
Managing egos without breaking the dressing room
What gets said in a timeout and what does not
What a coach can teach any manager

About the guest

Toni Mesa is basketball coach. This conversation was recorded for season 1 of Otra Conversación and runs 1h 07m with no cuts and no closed script.

Season 1 Sport inside out 1h 07m

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