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Every female athlete, her coaches, parents, teachers, and administrators will find Stop The Drama! invaluable as they navigate the stormy waters of team conflict and strive to reach their full potential, on and off the field and beyond. We are failing young women by not providing them the skills they need to deal with conflict in a productive way. They aren’t taught the communication skills needed to have tough conversations, work through issues, and move on. They aren’t held accountable to owning their feelings and speaking directly to the person with whom they have an issue. Sadly, the negative communication of cattiness and drama is encouraged and glorified on reality TV. This doesn’t serve women well in college and it isn’t doing them any favors in the corporate world, either. Young women need a new set of communication skills to transform the way they handle conflict. To break the cycle of using drama to deal with conflict, young women need to understand the process of developing a team communication fingerprint, addressing existing issues, agreeing on how to work through problems in the future and how to hold each other accountable (to not use gossip, backstabbing, and catty behavior). It isn’t easy, but it is possible. In this book, you are going to find tips, ideas, and thought-starters to help you do just that: Stop The Drama! *** Praise for Stop The Drama! *** “Doc Robyn’s Stop The Drama! campaign is applicable from the sports arena to the classroom and beyond to the professional world of work. The drama that exists in the career world is debilitating and energy-depleting, so I am thrilled that Doc Robyn is able to address these issues with practical solutions that will help our young women be more successful, confident, and empowered as they emerge into their career roles. I work with law students in addition to career counseling for adults in my private practice, and the catty drama is rampant and destructive. Doc Robyn’s book will be a regular on my “must-read” list for students and professionals. Cheers to her for addressing this most important facet of communication and professional co-existence with action steps that work.” Caroline Dowd-Higgins, Director of Career & Professional Development and Adjunct Faculty, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Bloomington, IN *** “I brought Doc Robyn in to work with our team because I knew we had the potential to be much better than our record showed. Our team was not working together as well as they could. By implementing The Nine Secrets to Great Teamwork and The Seven No-Fail Secrets to Stop The Drama! our players learned how to communicate quickly and effectively both on and off the field. What I didn’t expect was how much my staff and I would learn from Doc Robyn, too. Getting the team involved with the Stop The Drama! campaign was one of the best coaching decisions I have ever made.” Liz Tchou, Head Coach, Rutgers field hockey *** “As a former champion athlete and coach, I found Doc Robyn’s book, Stop The Drama!, to be wonderful. This is not an academic tome. It is written from Doc Robyn’s personal experience in the trenches as an athlete, a coach, and a coach’s coach and also from her perspective as a behavioral researcher. This book is a breakthrough that contains straightforward, easy-to-apply guidelines and steps that any individual, coach, or parent can take, particularly her Nine Secrets of Great Teamwork and her Seven No-Fail Secrets to Stop The Drama! And just because Doc Robyn’s work has been mainly with female teams, don’t for a moment think her message doesn’t apply to you fellows—I saw tremendous benefit in her work for males as well.” Roger E. Boswarva, Chairman & Founding Partner, Ability Consultants, Inc. www.howtolearneasily.com