Great Clubs and Coaches do these

Courtside Conversations, Podcast

16 thoughts to spark your thoughts

Which could you adopt immedately into your coaching

How many are you already doing

If Dan worked with your club or organisation

this is a list of things that he might promote

I want to share this great article by Dan Abrahams

It was originally posted on Linkedin

Dan Abrahams, Sport Psychologist is the voice behind The Sport Psych Show.

His work involves helping individuals and teams in high-performance environments. Much of his work concerns performing under pressure, leadership, team building, skill acquisition, well-being, organisational culture, and coaching practice.

Dan also is the host of The Sport Psych Show. I recommend that to click the link and listen to Dan and his guest guests.

How many are you already doing ?

How many would you be comfortable answering questions about ?

How many do you need to start adopting?

I’m interested in understanding more about numbers 3, 11, 10 and 15

Which ones spark your interest?

1 - Player (and coach) well-being starts with environmental strategies (not isolated individual well-being strategies)
2 - Player engagement may be your most important thing…try to engage every player
3 - Avoid telling low agreeable players what to do…negotiate with them, and hold them accountable for the processes derived from that negotiation
4 - If you want to help players improve then learn how to teach…otherwise you won’t help them improve as much as you are able
5 - If you’re invested in winning, then use retrieval strategies in your coaching (otherwise, players will forget patterns and plans). Players start to forget things immediately by the way.
6 - Optimal leadership is (probably) both transformational and transactional…it’s probably never not transactional but it’s probably more transformational than transactional (it’s complex!)
7 - If you want to help players improve then learn how to teach…otherwise you won’t help them improve as much as you are able
8 - If you conflate leadership and teamship…just stop that! To lead is to influence while to team is to support. Teach players to team more so than to lead because it’s easier!
9 - Embrace vulnerability rather than ignore vulnerability
10 - Help players find optimal motivational patterns…because multiple things help activate human beings (not just winning or high performance)
11 - Assistant coaches are the most important people at the organisation for a head coach
12 - Try to avoid thinking in black and white…player engagement, development and performance is a craft that lies in the grey
13 - Coaches, put your well-being as a priority
14 - Learn to love the cognitive side of performance. The secret of the greats possibly lies in anticipation and decision-making
15 - There’s a difference between knowledge-of the game and knowledge-in the game. Teach players both!
16 - Get players involved as often as possible. Become a great facilitator and negotiator