Nothing drains energy away from a coach quicker than the realisation that no one is listening. The changing room is lost and compliance is at an all-time low. What to do?
Asking “How do I get people to listen?” is reasonable if the task is to get people to listen. But is that really the task of the coach? Or is it a consequence of other actions?
If the assumption is that people should care what you have to say since you are the coach and it’s not working, then flip the thinking. They don’t care what we have to say.
What changes?