Part 7: Coaching & Teaching Implications

• Coaching & Teaching Implications - Know your players as individuals

  1. Recognise individual levels of optimal arousal
  2.  Individualise motivation techniques

  • Different people respond in different ways 
• Coaching & Teaching Implications - Know your players as individuals

  • Recognise individual levels of optimal arousal
  • Optimal level is individualised (unique to that person)
  • Best place for them 
• Coaching & Teaching Implications - Know your players as individuals

  •  Individualise motivation techniques
  • Not everyone needs an emotional pep talk
  • To psych them up 
  • Many players need to relax 
  • Not everyone needs to be psyched/fizzed up 
  • Prepare to get to your optimal level of performance 
• Coaching & Teaching Implications - Reduce the Importance of Outcome

  • Outcome matters, but doesn’t need to be only measure of success
  • Takes its importance out, increase chances of achieving it 

  1. Emphasise effort and doing one’s best
  2. Set technique/performance goals  [ie., ‘Task Orientation’]

  • Outcome matters but doesn’t need to be only focus 
  • 2 Key sources of stress: outcome & uncertainty
• Coaching & Teaching Implications - Reduce Uncertainty

  1. Create a supportive atmosphere
  2. Make sure goals are clear and specific
  3. ===>>   focus on Task Orientation
  4. Focus on things in our control
  5. Give consistent coach support
  6. Leaders being consistent, know what to adjust to & what to expect 
• Coaching & Teaching Implications

  • Reduce the Importance of Outcome
  • Reduce Uncertainty
  • 2 Key sources of stress: outcome & uncertainty
• Coaching & Teaching Implications - Help athletes Manage/Regulate their arousal levels

  • Mental Skills Training [MST] will be explored in more depth later in the course (eg. relaxation, thought stopping (positive self-talk), imagery (visualisation), mental preparation (mental warm up, to psych up or relax), self-confidence