What do you believe you’re capable of doing? And what happens when the people around you believe, or don’t believe, you can do it?

In this episode of The Sports Mastermind, Laura Ratto wraps up the three-part Confidence Series by exploring the difference between confidence and self-efficacy and how our belief in our ability to perform a specific task can influence what happens when it matters.

But belief doesn’t develop in isolation. Coaches can influence athlete self-efficacy through the opportunities, feedback, instruction, and expectations they provide. Laura examines how coaching expectations can create a cycle in which what a coach believes about an athlete subtly changes how they coach them—and may ultimately influence how that athlete develops and performs.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

•  The difference between confidence and self-efficacy 
•  Bandura’s four sources of self-efficacy 
•  How coaching expectations can influence athlete development and performance 
•  Why two athletes making the same mistake may receive very different coaching experiences 
•  How to recognize when an evaluation has turned into a label 
•  Four practical ways athletes and coaches can intentionally build belief 

The Focus Four:

1.  Build belief through evidence 
2.  Make belief specific 
3.  Question your expectations 
4.  Turn belief into action 

And after a three-year break, The Sports Mastermind is officially back! New episodes will once again explore how sport and performance psychology can be applied in practical ways by athletes, coaches, and performers.

Learn more about Laura Ratto, mental performance consultation, team workshops, and Ratto Consulting at RattoConsulting.com

The Focus four for How to build Confidence after a bad practice or competition are:

Hit the RESET Button

Be BETTER THAN YESTERDAY

SET REALISTIC GOALS

FOCUS ON WHAT YOU CAN CONTROL

This episode starts the 1st of three in the confidence series. This first episode is tailored more for coaches and specifically discusses how to build confidence in your athletes. The second episode will shift back to the athletes perspective. Specifically, how to build confidence after a bad practice or competition. The third episode will go into more detail about self-efficacy, what it is and how it relates to sports and sports confidence.

The Focus four for Coaches and how to build confidence in your athletes are:

Use psychological skills training skills, such as goal setting, Mental Imagery or Visualization, Positive Self-Talk and focusing on the right thing at the right time

Create situations within the training environment to provide athletes opportunities for success

Take into account individual differences between athletes and help athlete’s identify individual strengths

Track an athlete’s progress across time for a visual representation of overall increase in skill level and performance

Hello and welcome back to the sports mastermind. Last week we used PETTLEP to break down serving a ball in beach volleyball. In this final episode of the series, we will be going over the sequence of events leading up to shooting a free throw in basketball. For those of you that are new to the series, see episode 46 for more details on PETTLEP imagery. 

Hello and welcome back to the sports mastermind. This is the FIFTIETH episode today, so I am going to be doing the beach volleyball bonus episode of PETTLEP. Last week we used PETTLEP to break down taking a shot on goal in soccer. This episode we will be going over the sequence of events leading up to serving the ball in beach volleyball. For those of you that are new to the series, see episode 46 for more details on PETTLEP imagery. 

Hello and welcome back to the sports mastermind. Last week we used PETTLEP to break down hitting a pitch in baseball. This episode we will be going over the sequence of events leading up to shooting a penalty kick in soccer. For those of you that are new to the series, see episode 46 for more details on PETTLEP imagery. 

Hello and welcome back to the sports mastermind. Last week we used PETTLEP to break down passing a serve in indoor volleyball. This episode we will be going over the sequence of events leading up to hitting a pitch in baseball. For those of you that are new to the series, see episode 46 for more details on PETTLEP imagery. 

Over the course of the next several weeks, I will be taking one skill and running you through PETTLEP imagery. The series will be as follows: 1. Indoor Volleyball - Passing a serve 2. Baseball - Hitting a pitch 3. Soccer - Taking a shot on Goal 4. Basketball - Shooting a free throw and a Bonus episode: Beach Volleyball - Passing a Serve

In episode 9 we talked about mental imagery in broad terms. Today we are going to break down one specific type - PETTLEP. In this series, we will break down what it is and how to use it. 

How to self-motivate (increasing internal motivation)