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    Motivational Strategies
    Motivational Strategies
    Motivational Strategies
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    Motivational Strategies

    By Bruce E. Brown

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    Your success or failure as a coach will be in direct proportion to your ability to plan, teach, relate and motivate. What kind of coach would you like to play for? What does positive motivation look like? (1) Coaching Motivational Concepts (2) Using Statistics to Motivate (3) Use of Punishment (4) Using Role to Motivate (5) Creative Practices (6) Game Day Motivation (7) Motivating the Individual Athlete

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBruce E. Brown
    Release dateMay 31, 2015
    ISBN9781310952005
    Motivational Strategies
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    Bruce E. Brown

    35 years as a teacher, coach, athletic administrator at the junior high, high school, junior college and collegiate level Coached football, basketball, baseball, and volleyball Former National presenter for the NAIA’s Champions of Character Program Director of Proactive Coaching Clinician – Speaking nationally to athletes, coaches, parents, school districts and corporations

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      Motivational Strategies - Bruce E. Brown

      Motivational Strategies for Coaches

      Bruce E. Brown

      Proactive Coaching

      Copyright © 2015 Bruce Brown

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      Table of Contents

      Overview - What does motivation look like?

      Coaching and Motivation

      Coaching Motivation Concepts

      REWARDING STATISTICS - STATS THAT MATTER

      Game Day Motivation

      Motivating the Individual Athlete

      Summary

      About the Author

      Overview - What does motivation look like?

      The purpose of this booklet is to describe attributes that develop a coaching style that produces motivated athletes and teams; a style that propels players into action, a style that activates the hearts, minds and behaviors of the players. This type of coach understands that motivation is much more than the verbal pre game or half time pep talk that many people recognize as motivation in coaching.

      Motivation is defined as a force that propels people into action. It is the motive to act, an inner drive. What kind of action do you want your coaching to inspire? The ultimate goal in motivation is to get people to do all they are capable of and enjoy it. Leaders who understand and produce a motivating climate get people to go beyond their own perceived limits.

      In sport, as in life, either the hope of achieving a particular result or fear of experiencing a specific consequence triggers most internal motivation. As a rule, it is true that most individuals begin coaching as they were coached as athletes.

      For example, if a person grew up with coaches who used fear as the primary motivator, they typically begin their coaching career using the same tactic.

      It is a fact that fear works as a motivator (to a degree). Individuals motivated by fear not only get discouraged easier but also can become resentful of the leader who is imposing the fear. On teams where fear has been used as the primary form of motivation and punishment is given for mistakes, players will tend to avoid taking on any responsibility in order to prevent making mistakes and receiving the anticipated punishment. While fear works, it does not function nearly as

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