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Principles of Coaching

 
 
Part II: Understanding and Utilizing Sport Psychology
     Developing Your Communication Skills
          The Communication Flow
          What Makes Communication Ineffective
          Developing Credibility When You Communicate
          Exercise #5 — Assessing Your Communication Style
     Learning How to Listen
          Improving Your Listening Skills
          Coach as the Model
     Positive Reinforcement and Rewards
     Communicating and Correcting Errors
     Using Rewards
     Misbehavior
     Goal Setting and Motivation
          Developing Self-Confidence through Goal Setting
          Exercise #6 — Developing Self-Confidence through Goal Setting
          Performance Goals versus Outcome Goals
          Motivation through Goal Setting
          Measurable and Specific
          Difficult, but Realistic
          Long versus Short-Term Goals
          Positive versus Negative Goal Setting
          Set Priorities
          Mutual Goal Setting
          Set Specific Time Lines
          Formal versus Informal Goal Setting
          Team versus Individual Goals
          Goal Setting Domains
          Exercise #7 — Setting Realistic Goals
 
 
 

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