Mental toughness
- How to create a team vision or purpose
- Teaching teams to visualise
- Team culture and winning
- The Speed of Trust
- Is it because of talent that athletes succeed?
- Freakonomics in Rugby
- Lessons learnt from the Investec International Academy: How to sell Mental Toughness
- Visualisation – the How’s and Whys
- Derby and pressure matches
- Advanced Visualisation technique
- Verbal abuse in sport
- Cultural Change in teams
- The opportunity on your door
- The role of belief in performance
- Selling the Dream
- Not being 100% comfortable with your talent.
- Dynamic tension for high performance
- Learning to learn: The unsexy edge in sport.
- The Mental skills of Decision Making.
How to create a team vision or purpose
Wednesday, 08 September 2010 22:31
In the previous months article I taught you some of the finer detail of visualising, if done correctly this can be very powerful. Now that your team knows how to visualise we are going to use it for its second primary purpose, motivation or getting into state. *Being motivated is a state*
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Teaching teams to visualise
Wednesday, 08 September 2010 22:31
I just spent the weekend in Bethlehem in South Africa's Freestate working with the top rowers in South Africa. In rowing the (rowing) stroke is a complicated and challenging thing to do well, and it has to be replicated at a high level whilst under pressure and facing increasing levels of significant physical fatigue. This challenge is magnified by rowers who row in pairs, fours and eights, as they have to do all of this AND do it whilst being in sync with team-mates facing similar challenges. Not easy.
Team culture and winning
Wednesday, 08 September 2010 22:31
Does a strong team culture create a winning team, or does a winning team create a strong team culture?
The Speed of Trust
Wednesday, 08 September 2010 22:31
I was fortunate enough to listen to Stephen M.R. Covey speak about his book the Speed of Trust recently. His father wrote the 7 Habits of Highly Effective people, considered to be one of the all-time most influential books in personal development.
Is it because of talent that athletes succeed?
Wednesday, 08 September 2010 22:31
Talent is an interesting and very important subject when it comes to sport. In professional sports, and even in many non-professional sports, talent is identified from a young age and those special athletes are groomed (trained) for greatness.
Freakonomics in Rugby
Wednesday, 08 September 2010 22:31
I have just finished reading Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner’s outstanding pseudo-economics book, Freakonomics.
Lessons learnt from the Investec International Academy: How to sell Mental Toughness
Wednesday, 08 September 2010 22:31
It was a great pleasure to work with and learn from Murray Mexted, who has been running IRANZ, the New Zealand International rugby academy for 8 years.
Visualisation – the How’s and Whys
Wednesday, 08 September 2010 22:31
Visualization is probably one of the most popular topics for any mental coach to share with rugby players.
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- Derby and pressure matches
- Advanced Visualisation technique
- Verbal abuse in sport
- Cultural Change in teams
- The opportunity on your door
- The role of belief in performance
- Selling the Dream
- Not being 100% comfortable with your talent.
- Dynamic tension for high performance
- Learning to learn: The unsexy edge in sport.
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