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From Competitive Edge
By: Dr. Alan Goldberg A lot of coaches regularly employ punishment as a "teaching" tool with their athletes and teams. If the team/athlete fails to execute well, makes a lot of mistakes or loses, the coach punishes them with more physically brutal practices, extra trainings and usually extra, long hard conditioning. I've always been puzzled by coaches responding in this "old school" manner. What do they want their athletes to learn from their loss or mistakes? That if you screw up on "my team" there will be hell to pay? That losing is unacceptable? That fear of negative physical consequences will somehow miraculously motivate me and my teammates to perform better and not screw up under pressure? So let's look at exactly what athletes REALLY learn from these kinds of punishment consequences! Click Here to Continue Reading
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 From Competitive Advantage
By: Dr. Alan Goldberg As a coach you have an incredible amount of power to influence your athletes in a positive way, both in terms of their sportsmanship and generally as human beings. MOTIVATION is a key element of this process. Doing it wrong – by yelling, intimidation, humiliation, or other ineffective tactics – will only create negativity, fear, and frustration, setting your team up for eventual failure and possibly creating a terrible experience that’ll turn off your athletes from ever pursuing sports again. Doing it RIGHT, however, could make a huge difference in the lives of your athletes and in the overall success of your team, creating a ripple effect of positive results that’ll extend far beyond the sports arena. Continue Reading Here... |
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