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How a Veteran Coach Learned to Stop Yelling and Start Collaborating

A longtime Texas high school football coach has spent this season coaching a German team. The experience helped him see that he needed to change his coaching style.

Randy Jackson, offensive coach of the German Football League’s Potsdam Royals, described his former coaching style as “demand and confront.”Credit...Lena Mucha for The New York Times

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Soon after Randy Jackson took over as the offensive coach of the German Football League’s Potsdam Royals, he scolded his players in a video conference, saying that if they did not come to the team’s first practice in the best shape of their lives, they would be letting each other down.