As coaches we are role models, and all of our communication needs to be honest, and this should eventually lead to trust and respect. Somewhere between 85-90% of our feedback needs to be honest/positive, depending on the day, the situation and the phase of development you are in. It is also very important to give honest corrective feedback when mistakes are made and/or improvement is required. It’s simply coaching – trying to help an athlete or team get better – some players can handle it better than others. But both are required.Shannon's guest this week is Karin Lofstrom from Ottawa, Ontario who is a former college hockey player and a leader heavily involved in women in sport, specializing in Gender Equity, Diversity and Sport Management. Today’s Side Bar is about the history that was just made between men’s and women’s sport at the NHL All Star Weekend.  This week’s drill of the week will be “Tactical Continuous” – a drill that allows for 2v0’s, 2v1’s and 3v1’s - it will be posted on my FB page @coachshannonmiller on Thursday.  
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