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Team Performance
The following are work-shops and types of support that can be provided within a team or group setting
(1) Team culture and Leadership Development
(2) Motivation & Goal setting
(3) Anxiety, Performance Stress & Attention Control
(4) Team Role Clarity
(5) Concentration and Mental Skills Training (visualisation / self-talk)
(6) Sports Task Specific Work-shop - free taking (GAA), rugby place kicking etc
(7) Coach Support - Leadership Development & Psychological Support
(8) Relaxation & Deep Breathing
(9) Injury and Rehabilitation
(10) Post Career Transition
Scroll down for more information on various work-shops.
Team Culture & Leadership Development
Is your team performing to its best?
Does the performance of your team consistently reflect the sum of its individuals parts?
Are your team united regarding discipline, communication, team-work and team cohesion?
If you answered NO to any of the above questions then this work-shop might be appropriate.
Successful team managers strive to ensure that ALL players strive to work together within a collective team unit in a cohesive manner. This work-shop may be tailored to your teams specific needs. It will facilitate behavioral change towards a positive team environment while increasing team discipline, group dynamics, group confidence, communication and commitment.
The session is ideally but not exclusively conducted early season. Contact us for more details.
Motivation & Goal Setting
"You don't sit into your car and expect to get to your destination without knowing where you are going."
Goal setting is a strategy widely accepted as fundamental to performance excellence across a wide variety of spectrums, i.e business, sport, education etc. It serves as a tool to map out where you presently are, where you want to get to and clarifies exactly what actions you need to take to get there.
This workshop facilitates development of individual specific performance targets to aid goal achievement – lifestyle choices, addressing fitness / skill deficiencies etc. Early season is often best but this session can be delivered or replicated at any time of the season.
If you think this session might be of benefit, contact us to discuss your ideas.
"You don't sit into your car and expect to get to your destination without knowing where you are going."
Goal setting is a strategy widely accepted as fundamental to performance excellence across a wide variety of spectrums, i.e business, sport, education etc. It serves as a tool to map out where you presently are, where you want to get to and clarifies exactly what actions you need to take to get there.
This workshop facilitates development of individual specific performance targets to aid goal achievement – lifestyle choices, addressing fitness / skill deficiencies etc. Early season is often best but this session can be delivered or replicated at any time of the season.
If you think this session might be of benefit, contact us to discuss your ideas.
Anxiety, Performance Stress and Attention control
Does your team under-perform when the stakes are high? Do team members worry about their performance? Are they distracted by intruding thoughts and fears and struggle to find their "flow"? Do your athletes make mistakes, become irrational or show poor or irrational decision making in competitive situations that they would never make in training?
If so, your team members may be suffering from situational induced psycho-somatic stress which may act as a performance block during competition. Research has shown that low levels of anxiety may help performance. However, high levels of anxiety may impede performance, clouding an athletes capacity to execute skills to their ability, resulting in under-performance.
Great athletes learn to control these anxiety levels to find the perfect balance and deliver performance excellence on a consistent basis on the big stage. Contact us below for more information.
Does your team under-perform when the stakes are high? Do team members worry about their performance? Are they distracted by intruding thoughts and fears and struggle to find their "flow"? Do your athletes make mistakes, become irrational or show poor or irrational decision making in competitive situations that they would never make in training?
If so, your team members may be suffering from situational induced psycho-somatic stress which may act as a performance block during competition. Research has shown that low levels of anxiety may help performance. However, high levels of anxiety may impede performance, clouding an athletes capacity to execute skills to their ability, resulting in under-performance.
Great athletes learn to control these anxiety levels to find the perfect balance and deliver performance excellence on a consistent basis on the big stage. Contact us below for more information.
Team Role Clarity (Management and Players)
Are your players fully clear on what their role within the team is and if so, are they carrying out their roles as they should?
This session promotes role clarity and role acceptance of athlete's position specific roles in relation to a team’s game plan, promoting clear understanding of what is required on the pitch.
For more information, contact us.
Are your players fully clear on what their role within the team is and if so, are they carrying out their roles as they should?
This session promotes role clarity and role acceptance of athlete's position specific roles in relation to a team’s game plan, promoting clear understanding of what is required on the pitch.
For more information, contact us.
Concentration and Mental Skills Training - Visualisation / Self-talk
This is a bespoke workshop, designed specifically to address issues regarding concentration within your team. It will be effective in helping key individuals to perform to their optimum to help influence team performance; i.e goalkeepers, free takers, set play movement players and other key individuals within your team.
Concentration involves full immersion of ones attention in the completion of a task. Development of mental skills training including “trigger thought strategies” can help players to have optimal thought processes allowing them to perform optimally within game specific scenarios. For example, directing attention on specific and appropriate cues may help direct focus away from negative internal distractors (anxiety/ worrisome thoughts) and external distractors (crowd, opposition, score, time remaining etc) and onto relevant stimuli, facilitating natural “flow” and aiding performance.
This workshop may be especially relevant for implementation of set piece movements and closed skill tasks ie: rugby line-out, rugby scrum, hockey short corner etc and closed skill tasks such as golf, gaelic football / hurling free taking, rugby goal kicking, basketball free throw or any other closed skill movements; i.e tennis serve, snooker, soccer penalty / free kick, goalkeeping kick out etc.
Contact us to find out more.
This is a bespoke workshop, designed specifically to address issues regarding concentration within your team. It will be effective in helping key individuals to perform to their optimum to help influence team performance; i.e goalkeepers, free takers, set play movement players and other key individuals within your team.
Concentration involves full immersion of ones attention in the completion of a task. Development of mental skills training including “trigger thought strategies” can help players to have optimal thought processes allowing them to perform optimally within game specific scenarios. For example, directing attention on specific and appropriate cues may help direct focus away from negative internal distractors (anxiety/ worrisome thoughts) and external distractors (crowd, opposition, score, time remaining etc) and onto relevant stimuli, facilitating natural “flow” and aiding performance.
This workshop may be especially relevant for implementation of set piece movements and closed skill tasks ie: rugby line-out, rugby scrum, hockey short corner etc and closed skill tasks such as golf, gaelic football / hurling free taking, rugby goal kicking, basketball free throw or any other closed skill movements; i.e tennis serve, snooker, soccer penalty / free kick, goalkeeping kick out etc.
Contact us to find out more.
Sports Task Specific Workshop
This is an individually designed bespoke session to aid attentional focus to increase skill execution around sport specific tasks. Ie free taking (GAA), goal kicking (Rugby), golf, penalty taking (soccer / hockey), goalkeeping etc. Contact us for more information
This is an individually designed bespoke session to aid attentional focus to increase skill execution around sport specific tasks. Ie free taking (GAA), goal kicking (Rugby), golf, penalty taking (soccer / hockey), goalkeeping etc. Contact us for more information
Coach Support - Leadership Development & Psychological Support
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Testimonial
Throughout 2017 & 2018, Keith was a great sounding board for my Carlow management team in helping us to create the right environment for success . He played a huge part in facilitating the players to achieve their potential, which snowballed into some powerful displays in Croke Park. We won the Christy Ring Cup in 2017 and won both Division 2 of NHL and Joe McDonagh Cup in 2018. Throughout the two years Keith gave many valuable work-shops & support sessions for both players and team management. These included Leadership and Management Development, Goal Setting, pitch based practical attentional focus workshops among other aspects of performance psychology. I would highly recommend him in providing a high level performance psychology support to any team, athlete or management. Colm Bonnar - Carlow Senior Hurling Manager
- Do you struggle to get the most from your players?
- Could you be a more effective communicator?
- Do you have difficulty getting through to some of your players and is this impeding your team’s progress?
- Do you have players and athletes working against the grain?
- Do you need help getting your team to buy into and respond to your ideas?
- If you are answering yes to some of the questions above, you may need help in developing your methods of leadership.
Contact us for more information
Testimonial
Throughout 2017 & 2018, Keith was a great sounding board for my Carlow management team in helping us to create the right environment for success . He played a huge part in facilitating the players to achieve their potential, which snowballed into some powerful displays in Croke Park. We won the Christy Ring Cup in 2017 and won both Division 2 of NHL and Joe McDonagh Cup in 2018. Throughout the two years Keith gave many valuable work-shops & support sessions for both players and team management. These included Leadership and Management Development, Goal Setting, pitch based practical attentional focus workshops among other aspects of performance psychology. I would highly recommend him in providing a high level performance psychology support to any team, athlete or management. Colm Bonnar - Carlow Senior Hurling Manager