Don’t Ruin Relationships Over Differing Opinions

We often don’t see ourselves actively seeking the world beyond our comfort zones. In just a few months of graduate school, I’ve learned just how necessary a healthy group is and how easy it actually is to create the right mindset as a young professional. Rather than avoiding differences of those around us, we need […]

Great Leadership Means Practicing Great Followership

I grew up watching Power Rangers with my older brother and along with watching came the tradition of picking “your character”. Of course, my older brother always picked the red ranger because that was the certifiable leader of the team year after year. I would always be sad because no matter how great of a […]

Understand The Difference Between Giving Up And Moving On In Your Career

Just before my senior season of high school football, I left the team because of an injury. I decided to move on, reasoning that I would rather enjoy free afternoons and a chance to focus on college admissions. My decision could be seen as giving up prematurely or logically moving on, the difference being whether […]

For Your Career In College Sports LinkedIn Can Be A Valuable Tool

Networking, a word I’ve heard so many times in my career that I could only dream of being on a game show and networking being the answer to the question sending me home with a million dollars. How about actually having questions when the interviewer asks “do you have any questions?” Or how about having […]

CALS16 Creates Great Opportunities To Build Relationships, Hone Leadership Skills

The CALS16 interns, including College AD’s own Erick Taylor (third from right). [Image courtesy of @CALS_2016] College athletics is a business of relationships, but the Collegiate Athletics Leadership Symposium (CALS) is not just in the business of relationships, but rather establishing genuine relationships. Never was this more on display than during my internship with the […]

Keeping Balance Throughout Career Ebbs And Flows

Coffee is for closers. Sleep when you’re dead. The idioms about getting the job done at all cost done go on. That said, a hard worker can easily become a stressed worker. A stressed worker can easily become a bitter worker. Can a bitter worker get the job done? Sure, but an athletics career is […]