Confidence comes from success. If players expect success, they are more likely to try something new.
So one way to build confidence is to include lots of small wins for the players.
But effective learning also comes out of failure…when it is followed by review & supportive feedback, followed by ultimate success, so it is important to allow the players to experience (small) failures.
One of a series of short video posts for UK Coaching Week 2025.
We finished our (half-) term programme with an under11 group at the weekend, with a session of game-like scenarios.
Perhaps a stretch for some of them, but after working with most of the group since last October I wanted to help them put into context some of the skills & techniques we have covered.
(more…)Over the Easter holidays I coached on a couple of holiday camps. Good fun, but quite hard work.
For coaches and players.
Six hour days are long, not only for the younger groups. How often does a 16 year old get to play cricket all day? With the proliferation of short-form (not a bad thing, of itself) even a 40-over game is the exception. Yet the coaches are charged with engaging the players for a similar length of time, or longer.
I wonder if we could develop a narrative to run through the day? Perhaps by linking to a day’s match play. And putting the skills we coach into context.
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