Year 13 - Leadership in Sport - Monday 14th October

You should have completed the work on the roles, characteristics and qualities common to successful sports leaders. We are now moving on to the psychological aspects of being a leader. Please read the articles that I've linked to below:

http://www.thesportinmind.com/articles/how-to-become-an-effective-leader/

http://www.thesportinmind.com/articles/how-our-sports-stars-are-motivated/

http://www.thesportinmind.com/articles/anxiety-in-sports-performance/

http://www.thesportinmind.com/articles/being-in-the-zone-sports-holy-grail/

http://www.thesportinmind.com/articles/understanding-confidence-in-sport/

http://www.thesportinmind.com/topics/personality/

http://www.thesportinmind.com/articles/team-cohesion/

These are all interesting articles that relate to the psychological factors and considerations of being a leader. Those who completed the Psychology unit last year will be familiar with many of the concepts already.



Once you have read the articles you should write a post on your blogs which:

 

"explain four psychological factors that are important in the leading of sports activities" (M1)

 

You can choose 4 factors to expalin from the following (taken from the BTEC Specification):

 

Psychological factors

• cohesion eg group/team cohesion 
• Tuckman’s stages of group development (forming, storming, norming and performing)
• development of cohesion in a group/team
• social loafing and the Ringelmann effect; personality eg theories
• confidence
• self concept
• Profile of Mood States (POMS)
• motivation eg extrinsic, intrinsic
• stress eg stress management
• anxiety
• arousal