Session Structure

To ensure seamless integration with your vision, I propose the following structure:

1. Kick-off Session:

During this session, I’ll collaborate with the coaching staff to define the team’s ultimate goal that will serve as the core principle driving our program. We’ll brainstorm and establish shared team values and identity, and collaboratively set the main seasonal goal, ensuring alignment and buy-in from everyone involved.

2. Captains & Vice Captains:

Following the Kick-off Session, dedicated 1-hour sessions with captains and vice captains will offer invaluable insights and foster leadership ownership. During these sessions, the leadership group will:

Share their vision: We’ll explore where they see the team going, fostering a sense of shared direction and purpose.

Set their own goals: Empowering them to establish specific seasonal goals aligns their leadership aspirations with the overall program, promoting collaboration and commitment.

Become program champions: Their first-hand understanding of the program and its benefits allows them to advocate and motivate their teammates, creating a ripple effect of positive change.

3. Weekly Workshop Sessions (1 hour):

Following these initial discussions, I recommend one session per week per squad, which can be split into two 30-minute segments to maximize engagement with different units within the team. Typically, these sessions are divided into three key components:

Reflection and Review: We’ll kick off each session with a brief feedback loop, ensuring players can articulate their progress, address challenges, and celebrate wins. This fosters open communication and continuous learning.

New Skills and Strategies: Each session will introduce fresh topics and techniques drawn from your chosen focus areas like emotional regulation, self-affirmation, growth mindset, and goal setting. We’ll make these concepts relevant and relatable, using real-life examples and interactive exercises to solidify understanding.

Actionable Accountability: The final segment focuses on building individual and collective accountability. We’ll set clear goals and actionable tasks for the week ahead, ensuring players translate learning into consistent progress. This will empower them to take ownership of their success.

Pursuing a worthy goal is guaranteed to be difficult. Boredom, struggle, and pain will break almost everyone that it touches. My approach emphasizes building a well-structured “roadmap” for goal achievement, fostering a positive and proactive attitude.

Starting with the 1st XV squad allows for a focused approach, yet my program can be easily scaled and adjusted to meet the requirements of any age group you have in mind.

Content

Here are several fundamental elements and goals that encompass mindset and performance coaching for teams:

Developing a winning mindset:

The coaching process helps team members cultivate a positive and growth-oriented mindset. It involves shifting from a fixed mindset (believing abilities are fixed and limited) to a growth mindset (believing abilities can be developed and improved through effort). This change in mindset encourages individuals to embrace challenges, persist in the face of setbacks, and continuously seek opportunities for growth and improvement.

Enhancing team communication:

Effective communication is vital for teamwork and collaboration. Coaching helps team members develop strong communication skills, including active listening, clear expression of ideas, constructive feedback, and conflict resolution. Improved communication fosters better understanding, trust, and cohesion within the team.

Building a culture of collaboration:

Collaboration is the backbone of high-performing teams. Coaching supports the team in building a collaborative culture where members work together, leverage each other’s strengths, and collectively solve problems. It involves promoting a sense of shared goals, values, and accountability within the team.

Setting and achieving goals:

Mindset and performance coaching assists teams in setting clear and challenging goals that align with the team’s vision and objectives. It involves creating actionable plans, breaking down goals into manageable steps, and tracking progress. Coaching also helps teams maintain focus, motivation, and resilience during the pursuit of their goals.

Strengthening team dynamics:

Coaching explores team dynamics and identifies areas for improvement. It addresses issues such as trust, conflict resolution, role clarity, and leadership. By fostering a supportive and inclusive environment, coaching helps optimize team interactions, leverage diversity, and enhance overall team performance.

Performance optimisation:

Mindset and performance coaching aims to maximize the team’s performance potential. It involves identifying strengths, talents, and areas for growth within the team, and providing guidance and strategies to enhance individual and collective performance. Coaching supports the team in developing effective strategies, overcoming obstacles, and achieving peak performance.

Overall, Mindset & Performance Coaching for Teams is about cultivating the team’s collective potential, fostering a growth mindset and ultimately achieving higher levels of performance, effectiveness, and success.