Taking Your Student’s Poor Performance Home with You
We have all experienced it at one time or another, perhaps more than we care to think about: A student is completely unable to grasp our teaching. Despite our best efforts, he or she is showing no improvement under out tutelage. To a conscientious teacher, this is very troubling. Teachers who care tend to take their students’ poor performances home with them. It can lead to all sorts of soul-searching, ranging from individual...
The Olympics and Amateur Golf
With the London Olympics still fresh in our minds, we naturally look forward to the Rio Olympics of 2016 and the return of golf to the games after a century hiatus. But, instead of offering a crowning lifetime achievement opportunity of “Olympic proportions” to amateurs from the widest spectrum of countries around the globe, it will be just another major in an already busy schedule for many of the top professional golfers on the...
Performance Reviews
Conducting performance reviews with your employees is an important part of a manager’s responsibilities. It is a great tool to see where you are in terms of productivity, knowledge, and performance. Additionally, you get the opportunity to see how each of your employees thinks they are doing during their self-evaluation, which usually leads to an “in-themiddle” balance of where they actually are, and you, the manager, can now prepare...
Playing Your Best Golf
Golf certainly is an individual sport. No one but you can hit the shot, make the 10-foot putt to win the match, or be responsible for your score on any particular day. A golfer’s mastery of the game evolves over a period of time, and of course, is dependent upon the effort put forth. It’s a physical game as well as a mental game, like partners, both being dependent upon one another. Getting good at golf involves listening to...
The EIGHT SECRETS That TOURING PROS Use To WIN MAJORS
What is more important, technical skill or a solid mental game? Both! If you don’t have the technical ability to play a particular sport, it does not matter how strong your mental game is. Golf is an especially difficult game, because there are so many aspects to it: Driving, long irons, short irons, chipping, putting, bunker play, and trouble shots. It takes a lot of practice to learn how to hit all these different shots. However,...