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It is solid advice to nurture your athletes' internal drivers through autonomy-supportive coaching for sustainable, long term motivation and a range of positive benefits. But there are times when short term impacts matter too, and situations and personalities call for a responsibly managed controlling coaching approach to elicit immediate reactions from athletes. In this episode I talk through this case, building on clues left by research evidence and drawing on my professional practice to offer a nuanced argument for taking full advantage of all behavioural regulators as and when needed in coaching, for a short while at least.

Paper discussed:

Pelletier, L. G., Fortier, M. S., Vallerand, R. J., & Briere, N. M. (2001). Associations among perceived autonomy support, forms of self-regulation, and persistence: A prospective study. Motivation and emotion, 25, 279-306.

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Nowadays we're almost told what the correct coaching behaviours are. Particularly where motivational behaviours are concerned. But what happens when popular coaching styles clash with your authentic, and most effective, self? In this episode I argue the case for behaviour control, not change, and champion the coach's prerogative to reject popular behaviours or at very least put them on the periphery of your tool kit in order to care for what makes you YOU, when that's acceptable (outside of extreme/harmful cases). But, there are qualifiers here. Tune in to hear more and perhaps embrace my control first, change last behavioural framework. Lets mitigate, not erase; monitor, not correct; channel self-awareness, not self-censorship.

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- The information fallacy in coach behaviour change

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In this episode I'm joined by Professor of Sport Psychology Adam Nicholls from University of Hull to consider the complimentary role sport psychologists can play in coach-led processes, shining a light on where the blame lies in cases of disagreement from both sides of the fence. We also chat about how coaches can utilise mental skills with not just athletes, but also themselves, while at the same time problematising coping strategies in dysfunctional sporting environments. The conversations leads to discussing career planning within coaching, and why coaches are willing to forgo stable working conditions and mental wellbeing in search of positions of high status and the chance for glory.

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