Coaches must know how to motivate athletes, this is non-negotiable. A coach could be a great technician, game planner, and teacher, but if they can’t motivate their athletes to want success more than the coach wants it for them, that coach will fail. I explain why in my article on The Three Fundamentals of Great […]
One could argue that motivation is a must to get anyone to do anything uncomfortable. Indeed, the first thing I tell clients who hire me to work with an athlete is that mental skills training must start with motivation or it won’t work. However, I don’t approach motivation the way you would think. The way […]
One of the primary roles of a coach is to motivate their athletes. However, just like all athletes are not created equal, all motivation is not created equal. Generally, coaches can categorize athletes in two stages of learning: 1) Developmental 2) Mastery For athletes in the developmental stage, motivation is simple. Their motivation comes from […]