The Elevate Way

THE ELEVATE WAY

Culture is not a buzzword.

At Elevate Northwest, culture is how we coach, lead, and show up every day.

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Select or Development: Which Team Tier Fits Your Player Right Now?

The Box Score β€” Key Takeaways Your kid is nine. He loves baseball, he’s improved a lot this year, and a parent…

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What Age Should a Kid Start Travel Baseball or Softball?

The Box Score β€” Key Takeaways Every fall, in the parking lot outside our Woodinville facility, some version of this conversation happens.…

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What Does Youth Travel Baseball Really Cost?

The Box Score β€” Key Takeaways Somewhere around a first tryout, almost every parent pulls a coach aside and asks the same…

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Travel Baseball vs. Little League (Rec Ball): Which is Right For Your Kid?

The Box Score β€” Key Takeaways The season wraps up, and somewhere between the last game and the parking lot, another parent…

Culture

Love Lesson 1 – What is love?

When some people hear the word love, they think of a warm and fuzzy emotion that they have a hard time equating…

Culture

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Martin Luther King Jr. It is more important than ever that we listen to, and reflect on, words like those above. All…

Culture

Elevating our Culture

Elevate Northwest is a culture-first organization, which means we aspire to make a great culture the foundation of everything we do. If…

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A Note on How we (Should) Teach Culture

First and foremost, we teach values by displaying them. How many times have you heard somebody complain about how the world is,…

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Discipline Lesson 1 – Language

The first and best victory is to conquer self. Plato Keeping our mind focused on the right things, and resistant to the…

Training

Discipline Lesson 2 – Self Control

Self-ControlΒ  Self-control is typically defined as the ability to control our feelings and emotions. We actually want to switch this around a…