August 01, 2019 | Tagged Coaching,
Elevate Your Basketball Team’s Motivation
Key ways to help your team play its best when it matters most.
How to Improve Intrinsic Motivation in yourself and those you lead.
Motivate means literally to move. How do you move your basketball team and yourself to be a better player and person?
Increase curiosity. Intrinsic motivation increased in every aspect of life when curiosity increased. Boredom is the antithesis of curiosity. Become curious about improving your curiosity and the curiosity of those around you.
Provide autonomy and choice. Autonomy is the strongest predictor of intrinsic motivation. As parents, teachers, people, we need to really understand autonomy because it is that powerful.
Choice is defined as the ability and power to make decisions that impact outcome.
Performance related feedback is connected to intrinsic motivation. There is a large amount of research that connects negative feedback to a significant decrease in motivation and positive feedback to higher intrinsic motivation but this is a complicated connection. Comparison based feedback decreases motivation. For example, saying , “You were the best today” creates a focus on externals instead stay within the intrinsic feedback such as “You pushed through when it was easy to want to quit.”
Live in the growth mindset. Gratitude, hope, optimism, resiliency, etc.. are all aspects of the growth mindset. Notice areas you tend to foreclose on your future. “I’m not good at math.” “His brother really learns fast.” “She is the smart one.” “I’m not a reader.” These are terrible statements. Your brain is one of the most amazing creations on the planet—few come close to its complexity and possibility. Respect your brain and keep in in a growth mindset.
About NBC Basketball
NBC Basketball offers intensive basketball skill training in summer camps, travel teams, day camps, overnight camps, pure shooting camps, position camps, and high school team camps. Teams come to NBC to improve their overall team unity, skill, and understanding of the game. An NBC Camps mantra if the team is only as good as its weakest player. NBC Camps started in 1971 and had grown to be in 6 countries. NBC stands for Nothing Beats Commitment and the belief that a person's daily habits reveal his or her future. For more information about NBC Basketball visit www.nbccamps.com/basketball.