Communicating With Your Athletes
It is estimated that over ____% of communication is nonverbal.
70
Rewards which are internally satisfying when athletes participate in sport such as having fun, and feeling competent and successful.
Intrinsic rewards
When our _____ level is too low, we become bored and seek stimulation.
Activation level
The root word of discipline
Disciple
Failure-oriented athletes often reject success because?
They fear they will be expected to succeed again.
Coaches with this style of communication do most of the talking and little listening, and when things go wrong, they accuse and blame.
Command-Style
These types of rewards have many consequences including that they could lead to addiction. Such addicted athletes continually want more and bigger rewards to feed their growing habits. When the reward is no longer offered or within their capability to achieve, they see no value in continuing to participate.
When activation levels are too high, we become _____ and _____?
Fearful and Anxious
The three parts of the positive discipline process are:
Instruction
Training
Correction
Failure-oriented athletes attribute failure to?
Their lack of ability and give themselves little, if any, credit for successes.
Coaches with this style of communication seldom express their own viewpoints and will tend to express agreement, even if they don't agree.
Submissive-Style
Sport psychologists have learned that the two most important needs of athletes are _____ and _____
The lowest level of motivation in regard to self-determination is known as ______
Amotivation
The coaching style typically associated with the positive discipline approach is
The cooperative style
Success-oriented athletes view losing as?
A consequence of their ability, resulting in higher motivation to demonstrate successful ability.
Educators distinguis between two types of listening, ______ and ______.
Some coaches are known for using the ____ approach to motivation. They see people similar to the animal for which this approach is named - stubborn and stupid. In their view the only way to motivate players is the carrot and stick, with emphasis on the stick.
Donkey Approach
The "optimal level of activation" is also considered as the ________ which has been researched extensively by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
Flow Zone or "Flow Experience"
This formal document is based on your team policies, morals, and values which comprehensively outlines the behavior expected and required for athlete participation.
Athlete Code of Conduct
List the 6 steps of preventative discipline
1. Create the right culture
2. Hold team meetings
3. Develop team rules
4. Create team routines
5. Conduct exciting practices
6. Catch them doing good
The three dimensions of communication consist of three, two-part dimensions, these are?
1a 1b
2a 2b
3a 3b
1. Sending & Receiving messages
2. Verbal & Non-verbal messages
3. The Content and Emotion of the message
Some coaches adopt the ____ approach to motivation. They see motivation as something they give to players. In this view, coaches have motivation and deliver it to their players when they choose, often dispensing it by waxing eloquently in oratorical pep talks.
Stork Approach
Emerging from early success and failure experiences are two very different types of motivated athletes: __________ and ____________.
Athletes motivated to achieve success
Athletes motivated to avoid failure
Two types of mistakes or misbehavior that must be identified by a coach
1.When athletes try to perform the skill or behavior but cannot because they do not know how, or have not yet mastered, the skill or behavior.
2.When an athlete willfully misbehaves.
Explain 3 reasons why athletes usually misbehave.
1 - They are discouraged.
2 - They feel insecure.
3 - They don't get recognition for their positive behaviors.