Title: Build a Team Culture for Athletic Success | Psychology Today
Headings: Build a Team Culture for Athletic Success
Jim Taylor Ph.D.
Build a Team Culture for Athletic Success
The values, attitudes, and goals of a team impact its performance and success.
THE BASICS

Content: Provide opportunities to build team culture. Create shared responsibilities in which team members have to work together. Create team rituals such a pre-competition dinners or after-event cool-downs. Schedule weekly check-ins to get feedback about how things are going. Recognize teachable moments and use them to encourage your team culture. Training Group Cultures
In addition to the overall culture that a coaching staff fosters to best serve the goals of the entire team and the needs of all of its athletes, training groups within the larger team can also create their own cultures. These training-group cultures better reflect the individual personalities of their coaches and athletes and the unique goals that they are pursuing. These cultures also allow athletes who may be unable to take a leadership role in the team as a whole to exert influence within their training group. article continues after advertisement
Make Team Culture a Team Effort
Coaches, I encourage you to sit down with the rest of your coaching staff and your athletes to discuss the kind of culture your team wants to have. Proactively creating a healthy team culture will pay off in so many ways during the competitive season including improved communication and reduced conflict, a more positive vibe, better team functioning, and, almost always, higher levels of performance and success for the team and its individual members.