Build Team Culture and More

Your student athletes are likely concerned with their performances on the field, court, rink, or mat. We’ll help with that. Rest assured, however, that every step in this process will be building skills that foster overall wellness, build healthy relationships, and help manage the sport/life balance every student-athlete must contend with at some point in his/her career. Mental skills training begins with identifying what’s working in an athlete’s life, and what needs to be improved for the athlete to realize his/her full potential. Sport psychology reinforces this kind of awareness, and provides athletes with the skills to nourish what’s best in their lives, and address what’s holding them back.

Sport psychology gives athletes a language to describe their thoughts, their hopes, and their fears. It also gives them a process for growth, outlining ways in which to acquire new skills, handle change, accept feedback, manage adversity, and increase their focus, confidence, and motivation. The development of these skills, what we call a performance mindset, helps accelerate your athletes’ growth and skill development, and increase their ability to both communicate with their coaches, and receive instruction and corrective feedback.

It’s understood that what moves and unites any team are shared values. Premier Sport Psychology helps athletes develop an understanding of the underlying values that drive them to perform as individuals, and an acceptance of the shared values that unite their team. These understandings can keep your athletes more reliably motivated and increase their contributions to your team’s culture.

Create consistency in your athletes, in good times and bad. Resilience, or grit, creates mental adaptability, allowing student-athletes to be more resistant to adversity and to rebound faster when setbacks inevitably hit. Resilience has been shown to be a more reliable predictor of success than intelligence or talent, so building skills to make your athletes’ resilience more robust is vital to the success of any team.