{"id":100227,"date":"2023-07-25T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=100227"},"modified":"2023-07-25T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T13:00:00","slug":"your-response-to-failure-as-a-coaching-litmus-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/25\/your-response-to-failure-as-a-coaching-litmus-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Your response to failure as a coaching litmus tests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here’s a quote from Hugh McCutcheon’s book Championship Behaviours<\/a> that every coach should consider:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main litmus tests is your response to failure. When you perceive failure as an opportunity for improvement, it\u2019s probably a sign that you\u2019re on a good path: you see your shortcomings as valuable feedback in your process of improvement and achievement. If you perceive failure as an embarrassment or a personal affront, then you should probably look more closely at why you are engaged in the activity.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve commented in the past that yelling is often more about the coach<\/a> than the player(s). Can you see how the perception of failure as an embarrassment or personal affront might trigger that? Or induce a coach to use punishment for errors<\/a>? This is why it’s important to think more in terms of the athletes, and less in terms of ourselves<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not that we shouldn’t think about ourselves as well, of course. Coach health – mental and physical – is important<\/a>. I think you know what I mean, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you see failure by your team as an indication of where you can be better, or is it a source of embarrassment or a personal affront?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[82,83,104,109,112],"class_list":["post-100227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-volleyball-coach-development","tag-coach-mentality","tag-coach-psychology","tag-coaching-mentality","tag-coaching-psychology","tag-volleyball-coaching-skills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}