{"id":99996,"date":"2023-07-18T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=99996"},"modified":"2023-07-18T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T13:00:00","slug":"thinking-about-their-thinking-and-other-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/18\/thinking-about-their-thinking-and-other-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking about their thinking, and other stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sports psychologist Dan Abraham, who <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/some-things-to-think-about-from-a-sport-psychologist\/\">I&#8217;ve mentioned before<\/a>, offered up what he called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=779503550846111&amp;set=a.492135926249543\">seven quick ideas for coaches<\/a>. They&#8217;re simple in concept, but he does suggest they deserve some thought. Here they are, with some of my own thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. For players to learn through instruction, information needs to be encoded deeply. <\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Make sure they\u2019re paying attention\u2026all eyes on you!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Communications must be short &amp; understandable (lean &amp; lucid)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Give them a chance to \u2018picture\u2019 what you\u2019re explaining<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Check their understanding<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I would call all this pretty standard teaching approach. I&#8217;ve written before on that second one &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/the-more-you-talk-the-less-they-train\/\">keeping talk to a minimum<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. Help your players build their leadership toolbox by:<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Including more collaboration during activities. In other words, give them chances to experience leadership<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Negotiating type of leadership: by action, by instruction, by energy\u2026which type fits each individual best?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Seeing leaders as an extension of coaches&#8230;create informed leaders (flatten the coach-player hierarchy)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>An potentially important element of the first bullet is <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/adding-unstructured-play\/\">unstructured play<\/a> where players are encouraged to work together on solutions. And we can <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/developing-self-organization-in-your-team\/\">do that in a structured way as well<\/a>. Leadership development is always something worth thinking about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. The human cognitive architecture for visualization includes:<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Central executive&#8230;.choose it!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Phonological loop&#8230;.say it!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Visuo-spatial scratchpad&#8230;.see it!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Help players choose what to visualize (&#8220;Tell me about your best&#8221;). Help players to say it and see it&#8230;in detail!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This kind of ties in with the 3rd bullet from #1 above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4. A key to learning is attention!<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Attention is driven neurochemically by the release of: <br>&#8211; Dopamine (interest)\u2026reward <br>&#8211; Norepinephrine (alertness)\u2026threat<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Make activities:<br>&#8211; Personally meaningful for each player\u2026reward!<br>&#8211; Collaborative (social)\u2026reward! <br>&#8211; Challenging and pressurized\u2026threat!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I love that last one. It talks to both finding ways to <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/creating-pressure-in-practice\/\">put players in pressure situations in practice<\/a>, and to more generally <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/do-not-allow-players-to-go-on-autopilot\/\">keep them challenged<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">5. Helping players develop relevant cue words &amp; phrases prior to a game can help limit the amount of spontaneous self-talk they experience during the game (that can distract from picking up environmental clues). <\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>Prepared cue words &amp; phrases decrease thinking during a game!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It occurs to me that I haven&#8217;t written much of anything about helping players develop good self-talk. Need to remedy that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">6. Player ownership can be a key to learning tactical movements<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In training, as an activity unfolds, if a player is doing something wrong avoid correcting\u2026<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Instead, trigger their curiosity by telling them there is something they can improve\u2026and ask them to consider what it is\u2026<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Don\u2019t stop play\u2026let them \u2018think\u2019 and \u2018find solutions\u2019 themselves<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve long liked the <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/coaching-from-a-solutions-perspective\/\">solutions-based approach to thinking<\/a>. The one thing I would reflect with regards to the first bullet is the need to make sure the player has the necessary <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/knowledge-of-performance-and-feedback\/\">knowledge of performance<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">7. And\u2026<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Help players have action-changing words (adjectives) then ask them to embody and enact their actions in the style of these words<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Alert\u2026alive\u2026lively\u2026sharp\u2026relentless\u2026focused<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Action-changing words hone identity. They guide attention and influence intensity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This could be a lot of fun with a young group of players. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some interesting things to think about in your coaching coming from sport psychologist Dan Abrahams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[112,124,191,252,322,324],"class_list":["post-99996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-volleyball-coach-development","tag-volleyball-coaching-skills","tag-communcation-skills","tag-leadership","tag-player-psychology","tag-team-psychology","tag-teamwork"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99996","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=99996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99996\/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=99996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}