Tips To Lift Up Your Athletes Confidence to Win

How do you coach all your athletes?  Do you help your players to win?  Do your players enjoy what they're doing?  Do they want to win for themselves and you? Coaches must remember that they are authority figures who are often placed on higher pedestals than parents. Demonstrating caring, effective, and empowering communication with your athletes is the best way to teach and inspire. These five Tips will help you empower your athletes.

I. You should focus on what your athletes are doing well. If you do that, you are encouraging them, positively helping what you want them to do, and so that increasing the likelihood they will repeat the behavior.  One example giving them a good compliment like in what they did.

II. Don't always use such a harsh words whenever your athletes commit mistakes . If your focus is only to wait for mistakes, then your athletes will keep one over and over again.  Because The words you say can lead a vicious cycle of negativity to your athlete.  Replace the word mistake with the word miss.  Nobody tries to miss. Your athletes will either make it or miss it. 

III. Make it safe for your athletes to take risks and learn new things.  When you do this, your players will have more fun, improve, and develop more tools to win.  You create a safe environment for your players to take risks and learn new shots by complimenting them when they try something new, focusing on the attempt not the outcome, and taking the pressure off of them by saying I want to teach you a specialty shot to add to your game. 

IV. Stop constant critiquing.  The best reason to stop constantly criticizing your players is because you run the risk of making them angry and bitter.  If all you do is criticize, how can you be sure your players will not give up or miss just to get back at you?  Monitor how much negative feedback you give your players during practice and competition.

V. Develop independent athletes.  By developing independent athletes, you are increasing their self-esteem, helping them be more resilient, and increasing their chances of success both in sports and in the real world.  You can help athletes be more independent by limiting the amount of feedback you give during practice, not allowing them to look over at you constantly during competition, and requiring them to be responsible for certain aspects of their sport like having all of their necessary equipment/gear each day at practice.

Using these tips will totally help your athletes to win games, to make them feel mentally and physically stronger, relaxed, and play with confidence