E52: Confidence Series - Coaches - How to Build Confidence in Your Athletes

This episode starts the 1st of three in the confidence series. This first episode is tailored more for coaches and specifically discusses how to build confidence in your athletes. The second episode will shift back to the athletes perspective. Specifically, how to build confidence after a bad practice or competition. The third episode will go into more detail about self-efficacy, what it is and how it relates to sports and sports confidence.

The Focus four for Coaches and how to build confidence in your athletes are:

Use psychological skills training skills, such as goal setting, Mental Imagery or Visualization, Positive Self-Talk and focusing on the right thing at the right time

Create situations within the training environment to provide athletes opportunities for success

Take into account individual differences between athletes and help athlete’s identify individual strengths

Track an athlete’s progress across time for a visual representation of overall increase in skill level and performance