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TELL-ME-SOMETHING-GOOD Bring Your Team Closer!
Posted by Patrick Piteo on
Feb 25 2003
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04:00PM PST
Often talented teams with high expectations underachieve and do not perform up to their ability. What causes this? More often than not, what is missing is "GOOD TEAM CHEMISTRY". What can we do as coaches to help build better "TEAM CHEMISTRY"? I want to share with you, one activity that I have used with great results. I use it when I sense "disunity or a lack of team chemistry" developing. You can use a "TELL-ME-SOMETHING-GOOD" player COMMENT SHEET to build "GOOD TEAM CHEMISTRY". Here's how you do it. Give each player a slip of paper with each teammate's name on it. Beside each name are two blank lines. Each player is to write at least two positive things about each of her teammates. These statements must be something that she has always wanted to compliment her on or something that she wants her to always remember that she said! One statement must be "ABOUT THE TEAMMATE'S FASTPITCH SKILLS, ATTITUDE OR HOW SHE PLAYS THE GAME"! The other statement is about the person and her attributes outside softball. This statement says something good about her as a person, not as a player. What is written must be positive! Each player will be given a sheet with everyone's else's comments about them on it. Every player will read what each her teammates said about her! Each comment is labeled with the person's name that said it! The hardest part about this is that you have to take every girl's comment slips, tape all of the comments together, to make each girls sheet. It may take some time but I can tell you that the effort is well worth the results. This is a great way to bring everyone closer. Sometimes it helps a player as much to see what her teammates "did not" write about her as much as to see what they "did" write! I hope I have done an adequate job of explaining how I do this. This is to be a "POSITIVE BUILDING ACTVILITY"! Do not allow girls to say anything negative. Each player MUST FIND TWO POSITIVE THINGS to SAY ABOUT EACH OF HER TEAMMATES! The comment sheets that you compile and give to each player will become one of their "KEEPSAKES FOR LIFE". I have players that cherish these sheets as some of their greatest memories of high school. This activity seems to really "BRING A TEAM TOGETHER" with a new sense of oneness, pride, closeness, and confidence. If you think it might help your team, try it! I think you will like what happens! One last suggestion is to do this as a group activity together without discussion. If you make it an overnight "take home" homework project make sure that the girls do not discuss their answers or comments with others. The comments must be sincere, original and "spoken from the heart"!
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