Being a [tag]coach[/tag] means handling far more than [tag]baseball[/tag] drills and plays.   Your [tag]little league baseball players[/tag] will often have [tag]conflicts[/tag].   You deal with the immediate problem but then you need to look at what causes it. Little League Baseball Players

Coaches often feel that their job is to put out fires.   This is one style of management that is effective, but it is not the only one, nor the best one.   When two of your players get in a fight, you must put out the fire and break up the fight.   However, a good coach will not just leave the situation and assume that the problem is resolved.   Every issue that you deal with comes from some larger, underlying problem that you may not have recognized yet.   It is your job to discover those tensions and resolve them before they surface in other ways, such as a fight.

Many coaches say that they have so many little issues to deal with that they do not have time to address larger ones, which often cause smaller ones.   It is not so important to them to teach their athletes to respect each other, because they need to make sure their players do not sabotage each other in the short term.   However, this style of [tag]leadership[/tag] leads to more conflicts, because your players never learn the more important lessons of sports.

When you find yourself in a situation where you have to fix an immediate problem, give yourself time to discover the larger problem as soon as possible.   If you do not address the tensions that build within your team, you will have small, frequent explosions that consume your life as a coach.