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I was recently asked to share some thoughts on how to motivate players. I think most coaches try to motivate their employees more than individual players. I think it is normal, but many individuals don’t respond to the group’s motivation and will be treated separately. On the part of the wagon, the latter is clearly more difficult than before. To motivate the individual will require more information about a player.

If we’re talking about school teams in the age when fun should be the key to motivation, ice cream and pizza (or both) could probably suffice. But as the players age and the corresponding pressure to do their best to win and begin to dominate the individual psyche, the answers to the motivation is more difficult, more varied and can border on the esoteric.

Although I have retired from coaching team, I’m still working with coaches and players privately and in workshops. Motivational issues are almost always a part of the curriculum.

I don’t think there is a way to motivate. Players relate to different styles: ie Bobby Knight vs. John Wooden vs. Jerry Tarkanian vs. Dean Smith.

Motivation begins with the coach and the players don’t as a coach’s coaching style, there are two options a player has – play for a second or don’t play.

Coaching styles are all over, but the bottom line – Managers must be true to themselves and to be fair and consistent in his / her dealings with their players.

Motivate from one game to the next and one season to the next may require to change tactics. What works for one game may need more or less, or completely different tactics in different parts of a single season. And what works for one group of children one season may not be best for another group in another season.

No panacea on the spot, is there?

Perhaps the bus should try some introspection. Bringing out the best in ourselves as a man who compels us to dig deep into both our pshche and our soul a desire to make the”right”and to summon the will to do it.

What do you know about your players? What drives them? Want to know how to deal with gender and age differences? We can’t Coach 8-year olds, high school players, we can not copy what works for high school boys and make it work for high school girls. One can know a lot about motivating a player to understand something of the psychological makeup of the player and the player’s personal background. (Unfortunately, it can be even harder today with the use of so many coaches who are not part of the school staff, since they don’t have the daily exposure and experience that teachers and students share.)
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