"Magical" Steps to Creating Confident and Coachable Players
The brain registers 20,000 snap-shots (memories) every day. Those memories will be filed as either positive or negative memories. Positive memories make depositis into our Emotional Bank Accounts while negative memories will drain it. When people (and players specifically) feel better due to full E-Banks they have a more positive attitude. When we are more positive, we are more open to ideas, more optimistic, and will work harder…with the emotional energy to deal with setbacks. More confident…and more coachable based on how we categorize our memories. I’ve mentioned in previous posts one of the key principles in the Gold Standard Coaching philosophy is to deposit into the Emotional Bank Accounts of the players. The principle is based on trying to achieve the “Magic Ratio” of five positives for every criticism or correction. There is plenty of research to support this ratio in athletics, as well as academics, business, and even relationships or marriage . Five to one seems...