Avez-vous vérifié avec le joueur Q dernièrement?

En tant que leader, l'une de nos responsabilités est d'essayer de retirer le maximum de chacun de nos athlètes. Il est de connu de plusieurs que pour progresser et s'améliorer; il faut sortir de sa zone de confort. Quel est l'ingrédient le plus important pour faciliter notre quête à pousser constamment nos athlètes hors de leur zone de confort ? La confiance. Un si petit mot, mais un si grand facteur du leadership. Demandez-vous, que peut faire un leader sans la confiance de ses joueurs ? 

Would you follow someone you don’t trust? Probably not. Now imagine a person you don’t trust wanting to push you out of your comfort zone? How would that go? Not so good. As leaders, we need to foster that trust; sounds easy enough, right? Not so fast… trust is not something that can be expected, forced, coached, or demanded.

There are many ways to garner trust, and 500 words would not be enough to explore all the different avenues. So we’ll concentrate on the primary way to create a trusting environment: la qualité et la quantité des interactions. As the leader of a team sport, have you asked yourself when was the last time you had a chat with Player Q? As you can see, I didn’t enquire about Player A. Player A is that extrovert top player that we, sometimes, would like him to talk less :), he’s easy. But what about Player Q? The quiet one who doesn’t show up on the scoresheet every night, the player that plays a supporting role on the team, an important role but a supporting one. When was the last time you had a chat with him? How will you make him progress if you can’t make him step out of his comfort zone? How will you take him out of his comfort zone if the trust is missing? How will you make him trust you if there is no interaction between the two of you except the daily “hi/bye”?

Vous voyez, tout se résume aux interactions, à prendre le temps de discuter avec chaque joueur de votre équipe. Si vous voulez passer à un autre niveau, demandez-lui comment va son chat ou comment il a passé son dernier week-end au lieu de l'échec avant 1-3-1, etc. Ces interactions personnelles créeront des merveilles pour vos relations avec les joueurs, et plus encore. surtout, créera un environnement de confiance environment. Showing you care will speed up the trust process, facilitating the “stepping out of the comfort zone” and allow for progression. Let’s not forget that we can be the best technical coaches in the world, but if our players don’t trust us, we will have a hard time having them do the things we want. So take the time, write down whom you speak to, review your notes every week, make sure nobody is forgotten because, as mentioned in the last post, on a successful team, EVERYONE has a vital role to play. It is our duty to try and help every member of our teams to progress and not only good old Player A…