To enhance your athletes' ability to play freely and as a unit you must instill trust among the team. Start by helping everyone identify their specific role on the team, and relate how all roles are important to the team success.
In a team meeting, ask the group to share their concerns for
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tips for coaches
Letting go of Mistakes
As a coach, you should help athletes who get angry or frustrated with their performance. You don't want them to shut down in the middle of a game. First, your athletes need to understand the confidence-expectation connection. Strict or high expectations can undermine and suck the life out of
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Well-practiced Routines
The primary responsibility of the coach to help his or her team to prepare to play at a consistently high level. A lack of a consistent pre-game routine may be one challenge that leads to inconsistency. Pre-game routines are the key to consistency.
Regardless of who you are playing, make sure
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Proactive and Reactive Confidence
Many athletes don't take full responsibility for their own confidence prior to competition. Instead, they react to what happens at the start of the game. These athletes must first obtain positive results before they feel confident. You don't want your athletes to take a backseat approach to
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What Undermines Your Players Confidence?
For some players, confidence can be very fragile. For example, if they make just one mistake they can lose confidence quickly. You'll want your athletes to be aware of the top ways they lose confidence in their game.
You also want to focus on specific beliefs players maintain that limit their
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Team Captains Help Cultivate Confidence
Confidence is a mindset not just for your individual players but for your whole team. A group of confident players supporting each other makes for a very confident team. As a coach, you are not alone in supporting your team's confidence. Team captains act as a liaison between players and coaches, so
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Coping With Challenges
In a perfect world, you and your team would never lose focus and you would never encounter disruptions in play, but no plan ever turns out perfect. Things happen that are beyond your control, but your team has to prepare itself proactively so you can rebound quickly. Athletes should prepare
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Addressing Fears of Failure
Fear of failure and perfectionism is so prevalent in my work with athletes that it is becoming rampant in athletics. What you may not know or understand is that perfectionists with fear of failure are highly motivated individuals who want badly to succeed and reach their goals.
But many of the
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