{"id":1691,"date":"2014-01-15T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=1691"},"modified":"2014-01-15T09:00:30","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T09:00:30","slug":"providing-individual-player-feedback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/15\/providing-individual-player-feedback\/","title":{"rendered":"Providing individual player feedback"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

During my second season coaching at Exeter I surveyed the members of the university’s women’s team. I did it a couple days before they went on the holiday break. Most of them replied (it was anonymous and done online), and there was a good bit of interesting feedback. One thing that came up a few times was the desire for me to provide more individual player feedback<\/a>. It’s something I addressed in my meeting with the team before training one session early in the next term (keeping in mind that in England the season is basically the full academic year).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has been my experience with female players that they tend to want more specific feedback than do male players. The fact that this came up wasn’t a shock. Even more so because my focus had been mainly on team organization<\/a>. As I mentioned in the Log<\/a> entries for that team, I’d really been working hard on developing confidence and aggressiveness in the team as a whole. As a result, my attention hadn’t been as player-specific. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This isn’t to say I didn’t provided feedback along the way, because I did. It’s just that my concentration was team for the most part. That’s another reason I wasn’t surprised there was a call for a bit more 1-on-1 stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my team talk I discussed with the players how my focus had been on the bigger picture. That said, I would work to provide more specific feedback when possible. Also, I told them it’s not my way to constantly be in their ear. I will only talk with a player about something if I see an egregious issue or the same mistake repeated. I told the players I didn’t want them to fixate on every single little mistake either. If there’s a pattern, then certainly address it, but everyone makes mistakes here and there. I didn’t want them thinking they can’t do anything right either from their own internal perspective or because I’m constantly pointing out their errors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I actually had an experience when I was coaching at Brown where some of the players swore I only saw it when they made mistakes. This is a bit of a risk of this sort of thing in coaching. Any of us who have a technical leaning tend to focus more on fixing mistakes than acknowledging good performance. Obviously, we can’t go around saying “good job” every single time a player executes a skill properly, but we do need to mix that sort of thing in now and again<\/a>. This can have significant benefits to how players perform and your ability to keep them progressing – especially in players who are approval seekers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just some things worth thinking about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Individual player feedback is a critical part of volleyball coaching. It’s something which needs to be handled well to really get the most out of your team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[43,107,112,125],"class_list":["post-1691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-volleyball-coaching","tag-assessment","tag-coaching-philosophy","tag-volleyball-coaching-skills","tag-communication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691","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=1691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/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=1691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}