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I use behavior management techniques on a daily basis to appropriately influence and direct my athletes. It is important that they act and behave and train themselves to do so in the most positive, efficient, organized and disciplined manner possible. This in turn, I believe, allows them to have the best opportunity to accomplish their goals and experience success on a regular basis. Attempting to modify their behaviors and ways of thinking through reinforcement of positive expectations, which hopefully leads to a more relaxed, controlled and predictive state of behavior, does this. It is important for a coach to be positive and lead in a positive manner on a regular basis, just as it is important for a leisure services professional to do so in order to maintain positive relationships and actions while leading recreational and leisure services activities. A coach, through the use of specific performance expectations can accomplish significant behavior modifications towards both positive relationships and actions. Promoting and redirecting behavioral patterns and ways of thinking towards positive self-expectancy, positive self-image, positive self-control, positive self-esteem, positive self-direction, and positive self-awareness can achieve optimal positive behavioral modification. A positive coach helps players redefine what it means to be a winner through a mastery of these behavior modifications.
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