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Advantages of personality profiling
Caroline Sanchez was a top 50 ITF Junior in her day. She played D-2 College Ball in Florida and took part in the Challenger Circuit for three years and earned her a world ranking of #676 on the WTA Tour. Caroline sounds like an experienced competitor, but is she suitable for your player’s coaching needs?
Let’s take a more profound look at the background of Caroline. Caroline grew up on the Slow Red Clay in Barcelona, where her coaches demanded that she trained and played the “Spanish way” – stable, retriever style. Caroline has solid foundations, large lateral movement and a 20 -ball shot tolerance level. She likes to camp 15 feet behind the baseline and to expand points on a retriever way. Just like her earlier coaches, she is fed like an Old-School Boor Sergeant style from Coach and demands every student train and plays in the style she found most successful.
Coaches, does she fit well with your program? Parents, does she fit well with your child? The answer: no, unlikely, unless all your athletes are wired with the same exact cognitive brain design, body type and temperament that would be extremely rare. Coaches who only teach the system that they found successful, regardless of the needs of the student, are a bad service for the athlete. Tennis playing styles are an expansion of the brain design and body type of the athlete. The most successful playing style of an athlete includes their inherent strengths compared to the strengths of their coach.
Drawing up the development plan of an athlete is the ideal time to record their personality profile. Training and cherishing athletes to play the style that flows with their genetic predisposition and not against it will maximize their potential much faster.
While I travel the whole world, I notice that coaches and parents concentrate religiously on the development of the athlete’s hardware (strokes and athletics), but still tend to neglect the critical development of their student’s software (mentally and emotionally). Personality profiling falls into the software or the soft science of teaching tennis.
“Coaches and parents who understand the personality of the athlete in greater depth use a more extensive basis to maximize performance.”
A simple analogy is a comparison between the four most important tennis components (strokes, athletics, mental and emotional) with a conventional four -legged table. A table with four legs is not stable under stress without all four legs intact. The same applies to your tennis aids.
So how does the understanding of software development relate to you as parents, coaches, tennis directors or club managers? It develops a better understanding of how others tick and that you and your players place the competition. Software Assessment helps us to understand how individuals perform as tennis players. It helps coaches and parents to develop much more than strokes. It helps shape positive characteristics, life skills and a moral compass.
The benefits of personality profiling are:
- Adjust the athlete’s development plan
- Assessing mental strengths and weaknesses
- Assessing emotional efficiency and shortcomings
- Identify information processing / listening skills
- Facilitating conflict avoidance and resolution
- Communication strategies Empower
- Encourage the development of synergy and harmony within their entourage
- Monitoring of self -consciousness and the consciousness of other personality profiles
- Recognize and respect various brain designs
- Identify productive communication roads
- Help in identifying motivational factors
- Improving productivity and efficiency
Advantages for athletes:
In the soft science rich of trust, trust and self -respect, there is power to be obtained from athletes who celebrate their profile. Acquiring the knowledge of how they see the world makes the soft science of personality profiling useful when working with different styles of coaches and teachers. The faster those athletes understand their cognitive design, the more successful they are in understanding their playing style and adapting their development path.
The next chapter touches in the Nitty-Gritty of how the cognitive design of your athlete influences their performance. Wait, because I am about to be surprised while I reveal the similarities of each typography.
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