Confidence

Confidence
As a coach, you must exude confidence, and maintain an atmosphere on the team that will allow them to develop more confidence. A tense and worried team is not likely to perform at their best. Coaches should not doubt themselves publicly either. Players need to believe and trust their coach. They need to believe in the game plan. As a coach, you need to remember that no one else will believe in you unless you first believe in yourself.

Make sure you allow your team to build up confidence in its natural course. Building up false confidence can come back to haunt you since it will come crashing down when the team experiences unexpected failure. Confidence is stronger when it is built through accomplishments rather than words. In other words, success builds success. Beating good opponents builds more confidence than beating lesser teams.