COACHING PRESENTATIONS
The following are The Center For Sport Psychology's most frequently requested coaching presentations.
Coaching Difficult Personality Types
A team is made up of a variety of different players and personality types. An important coaching skill is to know how to communicate with, motivate, and hold players accountable who have different personality types. This presentation offers tips and strategies to coach a variety of different personality types, including the difficult ones.
How To Incorporate Sport Psychology Ideas Into Your Coaching
Athletic performance is largely mental. This presentation gives ways to incorporate sport psychology ideas into practice and game situations. Strategies are offered to help coaches build into their athletic programs ways to improve athletic confidence, composure, concentration, communication, and teamwork.
Who Is Today's Student?
"Why can’t they be more like we were?" Students today are different than they were 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. We can either be angry with today's student-athletes or learn to work better with them. Learn the latest information on male and female student’s attitudes about winning, losing, success, failure, competition, and off-the-field behavior choices. In addition, learn the strategies to more effectively teach and communicate with today’s student-athletes.
Gaining the Mental Edge
Explanation of the STAR System: Self-Confidence, Temper Control, Positive Attitude, Respect. Demonstration of sport and academic applications
Skills To Being An Effective Team Leader
There is evidence that team leaders rate their athletic experience as less enjoyable than non-team leaders. The key to improve team leader effectiveness is to teach them the skills necessary to play this important role. This presentation, in a highly interactive way, identifies key issues for team leaders and teaches skills in the areas of conflict resolution with teammates, communicating with coaches, and motivating different personality types.
Mental Toughness: How to Get It
Clutch performance … How much is inborn and how much is learned?
Mental skills can be taught to increase a person’s ability to perform best in pressure situations. Learn about focusing, visualization, relaxation and mental preparation and how they can help with the "mental part of the game."
Athletes and Mental Health Issues
Athletes experience the same feelings and thoughts as non-athletes.
Learn the signs and symptoms of athletes who are experiencing anxiety, stress, depression, relationship issues and other mental health issues. Also learn ways to communicate with teammates and coaches in order to best address athlete mental health issues.
Mental Skills for Peak Performance
Performance enhancement techniques such as relaxation, focusing, concentration, positive thinking, and visualization will be explained and demonstrated.
Unique Pressures on Student Athletes
How to cope with the unique pressures of time management, parental pressures, coaching conflicts, the freshman experience, and being a role model.
Social Media and Today's Student Athlete
Social media can be a wonderful tool for student-athletes to connect with the wider world. On the other hand, there are do's and don'ts that student athletes should be aware of in terms of social media. This presentation gives up to date information for student-athletes on how to use social media to their advantage, and not to their disadvantage.
The Psychology of Injury and Rehabilitation
It is clear that rehabilitation from injury is both mental and physical. An explanation of how to better understand and help the mental aspects of injury and rehabilitation.
Reducing Risky Student-Athlete Behavior
Being a college athlete is not all fun and games. Innovative strategies and programming ideas will be offered to help respond to the unique pressures on student-athletes, including: the freshmen experience, gender issues, substance abuse, eating disorders, gambling, sexual misconduct and relationship violence. In addition, learn to identify positive methods for stress management, celebration, communication, and teamwork.
Sportsmanship & Ethical Behavior
There is more cheating and poor sportsmanship in sports today than ever before, from youth sports to the Olympic and professional ranks. This presentation will identify the reasons for the lack of sportsmanship and ethical behavior in sports today. In addition, specific ways will be offered to promote fair play, positive sportsmanship, healthy competition, and ethical behavior in college athletics.
Embracing Diversity and Respecting
Individual Differences
This presentation helps individuals to identify their attitudes about themselves and others, and offers ways to respect individual differences as well as to work better together.
Teambuilding & Motivation
Ways to motivate different personality types will be explored. Symptoms of competitive stress, motivating the difficult athlete, and ways to improve team chemistry will be discussed. Was to respect individual differences in order to build team work will also be identified.
