{"id":20559,"date":"2018-12-17T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T14:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=20559"},"modified":"2018-12-17T09:00:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T14:00:04","slug":"the-coaching-environment-you-create-matters-a-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/17\/the-coaching-environment-you-create-matters-a-lot\/","title":{"rendered":"The coaching environment you create matters a lot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Alexis from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coachescorner.net.au\">Coaches Corner<\/a> posted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.volleyballsa.com.au\/news\/article?fbclid=IwAR0wEwAxPRZQ5CNt84M6O7alF_7oR25CdSSAUvv-sll4QidzZf5f4Ydb1C8\">an article<\/a> on the Volleyball South Australia website. It features some takeaways from a sport science conference he attended. There are a couple of different subjects, but the one that really grabbed my attention came from his first set of bullets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>We feel first, then we think<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The advantage we ignore:<\/em>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Detrimental coaching climates are a huge limiting factor to development<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Athletes in a fear response can\u2019t learn<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Safety is a critical part of a good learning culture. Athletes have to feel safe.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Tone of calm engages the receiver\u2019s brain to listen<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>We over-rep physically!<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Would you have learned maths better if someone was in your face screaming it at you?<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Coaches need to understand how athletes learn<\/em>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>If coaches understand learning they get less stressed<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>\u201cIf you don\u2019t perfect talent, it doesn\u2019t matter that you identified it\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These bullets come from a presentation by neuro-scientist Dr John Sullivan, author of <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/book-review-the-brain-always-wins-by-john-sullivan-and-chris-parker\/\">The Brain Always Wins<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Think about the implications of especially the set of four sub-bullets. They relate directly to yelling at players and creating and environment based on fear of failure. I&#8217;ve written before on the <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/does-yelling-at-the-team-accomplish-anything-positive\/\">yelling subject<\/a>, so my feelings are well established, and these observations back them up. <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/the-importance-of-how-we-as-coaches-talk-about-errors\/\">How you talk about errors<\/a> matters a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was struck when I read the article in question because of how closely it mirrored what I heard from inside a program with a new coach who yelled a lot. The program was set back because the new coach created an environment of fear and uncertainty &#8211; even in the staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, make note of the final bullet. Basically, it says that <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/tag\/volleyball-recruiting\/\">recruiting<\/a> and player selection only takes you so far. If you can&#8217;t develop players from there then you will never maximize your team&#8217;s potential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments from a brain researcher at an exercise science conference speak to the influance of the coaching environment we create on our athletes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[107,112,125],"class_list":["post-20559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-volleyball-coach-development","tag-coaching-philosophy","tag-volleyball-coaching-skills","tag-communication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20559","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=20559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20559\/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=20559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}