In the world of team sports a lot of time is dedicated to the skills necessary for the sport through practices and camps. More time is also used for the athletic development of the athletes. Often what gets left behind is the mental and psychological aspects of being on a team. These key components play a huge role in a team's success.
Let's look at a team in a different way.
Trusting
Empowering
Achieving
Measuring
Trusting: a teammates should always be trusting one another to perform their responsibilities. Once trust becomes absent the team will become a group of individuals.
Empowering: teammates also should be looking to build each other up. This creates an aura of confidence within the entire team.
Achieving: a team needs to have goals both in the short term and long term that they are striving for. Collectively the team will always be looking for more and not be satisfied with mediocrity.
Measuring: a team also needs to have performance standards set in place early as to which they are measuring themselves against throughout the season.
A successful team has to have continuity in order for them to be at their best. History has shown us that you can have the most athletic team and not be successful or have a team that isn't the most athletic but knows how to play together and enjoy success.
Once a team starts utilizing these principles success is guaranteed.
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