CREDIBLE COACHES ARE CONFIDENCE BUILDERS Ch' 11

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CREDIBLE COACHES ARE CONFIDENCE BUILDERSCh. 11

• CHAPTER 11

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How to Get Your Athletes to Perform With
Confidence

• You have to create an environment where
  everybody feels good about themselves and what
  they can do
• - Marty Schottenheimer, former head coach, San
  Diego Chargers

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Confidence is Critical

• One of the authors of this text, Jeff Janssen,
  M.S. went from being a third string quarterback
  his 7th grade year to starting running back (and
  leading rusher) in 8th grade. He attributes this
  mainly to his coach seeing talent in him that he
  couldnt see and having confidence in him.
• The confidence a coach shows in their athletes
  often makes or breaks their confidence

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Game Performance

• Confident athletes
• Play aggressive and make things happen
• Trust themselves and their abilities
• Maintain composure and stay mentally tough
• Want to be in the game at clutch times

• Non-confident athletes
• Become tense in pressure situations and often
  choke
• Play not to lose rather than to win
• Are constantly looking over their shoulders
  because of fear of making mistakes

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Confidence is Fragile Handle with Care

• Sport involves a great deal of failure
• Soccer/hockey players miss 90 of their shots
• Softball/baseball players are out 70 of the time
• Basketball players miss 50 of their shots
• Quarterbacks dont complete 40 of their passes
• How a player deals with the failure that is
  built into the game eventually determines how
  successful they will be.
• Mike Candrea, University of Arizona Softball

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Seven Steps to Building your Athletes Confidence

• 1. Focus on Potential What you see is what you
  eventually get
• - Dont let what your athletes cannot do
  interfere with what they can do!
• 2.Plant Seed of Success
• - Coach Gary Barnett took the Northwestern
  football team from being one of the worst teams
  to playing in the Rose Bowl in just four seasons
  He put up signs everywhere saying Belief
  Without Evidence

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Seven steps

• 3. Sell Athletes on Themselves Help Them Feel
  Capable
• - Make your athletes feel like first round draft
  picks that are capable of anything (no matter
  what their level)
• 4. Give Them a Specific and Simple Plan to
  Succeed
• - Show your athletes what steps they need to take
  on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. Break
  down your vision of what they could be into a
  realistic plan they can follow today

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Seven steps

• 5. Emphasize Working Hard and Deserving Success
• - Convince your players that hard work is
  something that is good for them. All the sweat,
  aches, pains, and exhaustion is not a sacrifice,
  but an investment in their potential
• 6. Set People Up for Early Success
• - If athletes experience the sweet taste of
  success early they will yearn for more of it

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Seven steps

• 7. Accentuate the Positive
• - When athletes are successful, credible coaches
  look to catch people doing things right and
  praise them publicly for it
• Great leaders inflate the people around them.
  Poor leaders deflate the people around them
• -Rick Pitino, University of Louisville Mens
  Basketball Coach

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How to correct and criticize your athletes
without destroying their confidence

• Different Strokes for Different Folks
• There is not one set way to coach every person
• Some athletes are more sensitive
• Not all athletes are motivated by the same things
• Coaching the fragile athlete
• Be supportive and patient

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• Coaching the confident athlete
• Demand excellence
• Knowing when to push and when to ease up
• Credible coaches discover each of their athletes
  breaking points

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12 tips for challenging athletes and maintaining
confidence

• 1. Be understanding
• 2. Allow athletes to play through mistakes
  whenever possible
• 3. Avoid making it personalcriticize behavior,
  not the person
• 4. Limit your use of profanity
• 5. Never embarrass an athlete in public
• 6. Avoid using sarcasm to embarrass athletes into
  performing better

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12 tips cont

• 7. Use the sandwich approach when providing
  feedback
• 8. I know youre better than that
• 9. Focus on the solution
• 10. Make it a we project
• 11. Remind them of their strengths, past
  successes, and preparation
• 12. Dont give updont ever give up!

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Show appreciation

• In addition to sharing the credit for success
  with their athletes, credible coaches also highly
  appreciate everyone who is associated with their
  programs

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Ch. 11 key points

• Inspire your athletes to reach their potential
• Help your athletes feel good about themselves
• Demand excellence from your athletes
• Challenge and support your athletes when they
  fail
• Let your athletes know how much you appreciate
  them