USA Hockey Advanced Clinic Rick Albrecht, Ph.D. Department of Movement Science Grand Valley State University Copyright  Dr. Rick Albrecht., 2004

Agree or Disagree? “I Have to Work Hard to Motivate My Athletes”

Agree or Disagree? “Motivations Come From Within -- My Players Bring Their Motivation Levels With Them To The Ice Arena”

Agree or Disagree? “If I Want To Be An Effective Hockey Coach, My Main Job Is To Motivate My Athletes”

Agree or Disagree? “I’d Rather Be Lucky Than Good”

Agree or Disagree? “The Following Are Excellent Goals For Young Hockey Players To Set For Themselves...” “Winning the Game” “Making the Team” “Scoring a Goal in Tonight’s Game” “Winning the League Championship” “Winning the Gold Medal” “Competing to the Best of My Ability”

Agree or Disagree? “There’s No ‘I’ In Team -- Setting Team Goals is an Great Way to Promote Good Hockey Team Performance”

Agree or Disagree? “The Following Punishments Are Generally Effective in Correcting Performance Errors…” Yelling/Screaming/Criticizing Removal of Playing Time Running/Skating Laps Running/Skating Sprints Push Ups, Sit Ups, etc.

Agree or Disagree? “A Bad Performance Can Hurt a Hockey Player’s Confidence Level”

Agree or Disagree? “Practice Makes Perfect and There’s Almost Never Enough Practice or Ice Time”

Agree or Disagree? “Injuries Are An Athlete’s (and a Coach’s) Nightmare”

Ten (or More) Lies Your Coaches Told You… And You Tell Yourself Rick Albrecht, Ph.D. Department of Movement Science Grand Valley State University Copyright  Dr. Rick Albrecht., 2003

Ten (or More) Lies Your Coaches Told You… And You Tell Yourself “Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.” -- Franklin D. Roosevelt "All great truths begin as blasphemies." --George Bernard Shaw "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few." --Shunryu Suzuki

What They’ve Told You Is... “I Have to Work Hard to Motivate My Athletes”

What The Research Tells Us Is... Kids Have Thousands of Opportunities… They’ve Given Them All Up Just To Play Hockey -- They’re Already Highly Motivated! We Don’t Have to Work Hard to Get The Kids Motivated to Play Hockey -- Rather, We Have To Work Hard To... KEEP THEM MOTIVATED!

What They’ve Told You Is... “Motivations Come From Within -- My Players Bring Their Motivation Levels With Them To The Ice Arena”

What The Research Tells Us Is... Okay, This One’s Half True…Motivation is a Combination of a Person’s “Personality” AND the “Situation” in Which They Find Themselves Which Will You Be More Effective in Changing (Personality or Situation)? THE SITUATION!

What They’ve Told You Is... “If I Want To Be An Effective Hockey Coach, My Main Job Is To Motivate My Athletes”

What The Research Tells Us Is... Your MAIN Job is to Motivate YOU! You Need to Develop a TGIM Attitude How Do You Expect to Motivate Others If You Can’t Motivate Yourself First? Motivation is Contagious You Have to Control The Things YOU Have Control Over -- Nothing Else

The Serenity Prayer God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change… Courage to change the things I can… And wisdom to know the difference

What They’ve Told You Is... “I’d Rather Be Lucky Than Good”

What The Research Tells Us Is... There Are Only Four Types of Causal Attributions You -- Or Your Learners -- Can Make: –External and Unstable (e.g., Luck) –External and Stable (e.g., Task Difficulty) –Internal and Stable (e.g., Ability) –Internal and Unstable (e.g., Effort)

It’s All About What You Can Control... “When You Blame Others, You Give Up Your Power to Change” -- Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

What They’ve Told You Is... “The Following Are Excellent Goals For Young Hockey Players To Set For Themselves...” “Winning the Game” “Making the Team” “Scoring a Goal in Tonight’s Game” “Winning the League Championship” “Winning the Gold Medal” “Competing to the Best of My Ability”

What The Research Tells Us Is... To Be Effective, Goals Need To Be: –Realistic but Challenging –Specific and Measurable –UNDER YOUR CONTROL –Based on performance NOT OUTCOME! –Focused on the PROCESS (How not What)

What They’ve Told You Is... “There’s No ‘I’ In Team -- Setting Team Goals is an Great Way to Promote Good Hockey Team Performance”

What The Research Tells Us Is... There is nothing but “I”s in Team Teams Can’t Perform Skills -- Only Individuals Can Having “Team Goals” Can Often Be Counterproductive –Nobody is Actually Responsible for Accomplishing Team Goals Your Job is to be the Conductor

What They’ve Told You Is... “The Following Punishments Are Generally Effective in Correcting Performance Errors…” Yelling/Screaming/Criticizing Removal of Playing Time Running/Skating Laps Running/Skating Sprints Push Ups, Sit Ups, etc.

What The Research Tells Us Is... As Physical Educators, One of Our Main Goals is to Promote Lifelong Physical Activity Why Do We Use What You Want To Promote As Punishment? Other Reasons Punishment, in General, Doesn’t Work

What They’ve Told You Is... “A Bad Performance Can Hurt a Hockey Player’s Confidence Level”

What The Research Tells Us Is... By Believing This, We Give Ourselves A Convenient Excuse For Future Failure It’s Not The Performance -- It’s What You Think About The Performance Your Players Spend Countless Hours Training and Perfecting Their Performance -- What Makes You (or Them) Think That One Bad Performance Will Destroy All That Hard Work?

What They’ve Told You Is... “Practice Makes Perfect and There’s Almost Never Enough Practice or Ice Time”

What The Research Tells Us Is... Only “Perfect” Practice Makes Perfect Most Practices Last Far Too Long -- You Just Risk Mental and Physical Fatigue and Injuries (80/20 rule) –Place More emphasis on Practice of Mental Skills -- Less on Physical Skills –Use of “Mental Practice”

What They’ve Told You Is... “Injuries Are An Athlete’s (and Coach’s) Worst Nightmare”

What The Research Tells Us Is... “Benefits of Injury” “Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely” “You learn very little from winning -- losing is the great teacher”

Reconsider The Opening Quotations “Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.” -- Franklin D. Roosevelt "All great truths begin as blasphemies." --George Bernard Shaw "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few." --Shunryu Suzuki