How to Make and Break Confidence

About this episode

The episode discusses how feedback can impact confidence in sports coaching and team culture.

If you’ve ever walked into a team review wondering which clip will make you look stupid, you already know how confidence gets crushed. We talk about coaching confidence through the most common tool coaches use and misuse: feedback. When reviews become a public list of everything that went wrong, players don’t just feel corrected, they feel exposed. And once fear shows up, learning slows down, decision-making tightens, and team culture quietly deteriorates. We unpack why so many coaches defau...

People in this episode

Host: Ben Herring

Topics covered

• coaching
• confidence
• feedback
• team culture
• sports psychology

Keywords

• confidence
• coaching
• feedback
• team reviews
• sports
• learning
• decision-making

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