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Personality -based training
“Personality profiling helps coaches, athletes and parents to understand how individuals collect information and make decisions. It’s how we are wired. It is what makes us tick.”
Frank Giampaolo
Personality -based training (PBT) is a training method that focuses on the unique brain design of the athlete in contrast to the educator. When applying PBT, tennis proofs and parents welcome the unique preferred styles of the athlete for learning, behaving and playing the game. The athletes feel empowered because their views and needs are recognized. And once understood, students are more motivated and inspired to learn and improve. An inspired student will rather play the leading role in achieving his goals.
“Athletes would benefit from understanding the pros and cons of their unique brain design. That is why they are naturally good in some things and uncomfortable with others.”
It is important to note that although I have studied sports psychology in the last 30 years, I am a veteran, “in the trenches” practical Application tennis coach, not a psychologist from the “Academy”. But none of the two were Katharine Briggs and her daughter Isabel Myers, authors of the famous Myers-Briggs-Type indicator (MBTI psychological questionnaire that was used to understand individual mental preferences.) Published in the United States in 1943. Together I noticed the world to see the individuals different temperaments.
Although some scientists say that the MBTI does not stand up against scientific reliability, I can honestly say that it has helped me to coach more than 100 national champions and different pro tourets. What is even more important is that personality profiling benefits of my athletes and their entourage of parents, coaches and trainers at a much deeper level. A study conducted by Psychology Today reports that about 80% of Fortune 500 companies use different personality tests to hire future employees, assess the progress and to maximize efficiency and harmony through team building events.
The time has come to increase the role of personality profiling in the athletic empire, as I have outlined in The soft science of tennis.
Get to know the Myers-Briggs type indicator (MBTI)
The MBTI is the most popular psychometric questionnaire that is designed to measure psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions. It is my intention to reveal the usefulness of the identification of the brain preference in the tennis industry. Every student has a desired way to see the world. The basic MBTI theory categorizes preferences into four groups from which individuals identify their dominant cerebral preference.
The typographies include:
- Extraversion (“E”)- People/Places
- Introversion (“I”)- Theories/ information
- Detection (“S”)- Facts/reality
- Intuition (“N”) Options/potential
- Think it over (“T”)- Logic/Positiveness
- Feeling (“F”)- Harmonie/Relationships
- Judgement (“J”)- Orderly/Structured
- Perception (“P”)- Flexible/adaptable
For each of the couples above, your athletes usually have a preference for one system above the other. The combination of their four preferences gives them their first assessment in an acronym of four letters. An example is personality profile: ISTP (Introvert Sensate Thinker -Opterer)
“View the brain design of your athlete (dominant and help) in the same way if you would view right -handed versus left -handed body type functions. Each athlete has a congenital preference system.”
In my experience, personality profiling is a soft science, which means that other factors such as cherishing and environments are the data. That said, I believe that athletes have specific preferences in the way they experience the world and these choices influence their actions, values and motivating needs on and next to the tennis court.
Universal truths
- Getting an understanding of this soft science takes time. Be patient if you learn to apply this new skill found. I encourage you to apply personality profiling as a means to understand how students tick versus stereotyping or grouping athletes by purely age or general skills.
- Coaches cannot change the primary brain design of an athlete, but they can bothered the weaker, the opposite profile of the individual and strengthen their dominant profile.
- Interestingly, in rare cases the persona of a student opposes his off-Court Persona.
- Everyone shows both dominant and aid characteristics. For example, introverted people can be quite social for short time tints.
- There is no right, wrong, superior or inferior type, but rather the preferred savings of the game and life. Although there are only 16 unique brain designs, everyone is unique. For example, there is a wide spectrum of every preference ranging from moderate to extreme.
- All brain designs must spend time and energy on feeding their non-dominant functions.
- It is not unlikely for athletes who is young and old to induce their brain design inaccurately to fit into a more popular, cool version of itself.
- Pay attention to the brain design of others, because this is the reason why opposing types make you crazy and make similar types comfortable.
- An athlete will benefit considerably from understanding the pros and cons of their unique design.
- Adapted development through personality profiling increases self -confidence and breeding trust, which can be seen in the peaceful performance of the athlete.
- Profiling the personalities of your athlete will not give you the final answers, but it will help organize their unique development paths, which maximize pleasure and help them reach their potential at a faster pace.
- It is our job as educators and parents to cod every athlete, so we are better equipped to help them maximize their potential.
- Due to the combination of nature and upbringing, exceptions damage each rule in the soft science of personality profiling.
In chapters 8-11, challenges and dominant solutions are presented to help understand the specific cerebral designs. It is important to note that many of the solutions given can also be used with other cognitive types.
The following chapters discover the valuable benefits that result from revealing the mental typographies of our athletes.
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