Coach Development Workshops
Great coaches create great performers. Only rarely do talented athletes become great despite their coach.
Reversal Theory has diagnostic and explanatory power at a number of levels of performance – the individual performer, the team, the leader and the organisation – and can create a common ‘language’ that would help the coach to make sense of, and connect to, these levels to improve performance (and create a more satisfying environment for performers).
Understanding your own coaching style
Aim: To help coaches to understand their own motivational orientation, to assess their strengths and weaknesses as a coach, and to develop action plans and strategies to address these.
Objectives:
- Introduce the motivational states
- Give coaches an opportunity to review their own states and how * these impact upon their effectiveness as a coach
- Explore strategies to help them start to make changes
- Use this analysis to feed into their own development plans
Creating a motivational climate for performance
Aim: To help coaches better understand the impact of ‘motivational climate’, and assess the climate that they create, so that they can create a richer climate that helps their athletes to satisfy a greater range of needs and access the different motivational states required to perform
Objectives:
- Understand the different ‘climate conditions’ from a Reversal Theory perspective
- Understand the potential impact of the climate conditions on performance
- Explore the relationship between their own motivations, behaviour and climate
- Identify potential changes to be made to their own coaching practice/environment
Understanding your athletes
Aim: To help coaches better understand the motivations and emotions of their athletes, and identify/develop some key skills to help athletes access alternative mindsets/experiences.
Objectives:
- Understand the relationship between motivational states and emotional experience
- Develop methods for assessing motivational states more effectively (behaviour is an unreliable indicator of motivation)
- Consider some ‘live’ scenarios (prepared with help from the attendees), and discuss possible strategies
- Take away a list of skills/strategies that can be used to change states (or be more effective in the same state)
(Advanced option +1 day more practical application/learning of skills)
These can be offered as individual one-day workshops, or in combination. I can also offer tailored coach and athlete development workshops.
Please contact me to discuss your needs.
Rob Robson, Sport Psychologist and Management Consultant