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To prepare: From What Drives Winning (Ledbetter, 2015, pp.91-125), review the 4 coaching strategies that are meant to help athletes become more positive and confident, to give themselves a strong inner coach and deal with the negative chatter inside their heads (to replace the �weak� voice with the �strong� voice).

These are the four strategies:
1.Give your best friend advice
2.Plan positive
3.Replace negative
4.Opportunity converter
Part 1
Write 2 paragraphs reflecting on the 4 strategies to develop a more positive and confident athlete described in your text (Ledbetter, 2015). Which strategy do you feel you would most likely use and why? When might you use that strategy and what results would you hope for?

Part 2
As described by Sue Enquist in the video (Filmproject, 2015), design a Failure Recovery System that could be incorporated into your coaching program.
First, define what failure means to you.

Describe in detail what the proper response would look like if the athletes and/or coaches in your program were to fail. What is their physical demeanor, what words should come out of their mouths, what non-verbal messages do you want them to send?

What is the �failure recovery system� that you want their behaviors to illustrate in practice and games on every occasion?

How will you develop an environment of trust and acceptance of failure?

Are there failures that would not fall into this recovery system? Explain.

References

Filmroom Project. (2015, October 4). Sue Enquist: Fear and failure [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZPv3en9iYU#t=13

Ledbetter, B. (2015). What drives winning. Green Dot Publishing.