| Coaches must be concerned with the development | | | | enterprises and business startups and has broadened |
| of their players both on the field and off the field. In | | | | into a wider appreciation of positive psychology. |
| order to build strong young girls who can stand on | | | | Try this technique after your next game and see if it |
| their own 2 feet in life, we can leverage the insights | | | | doesn't work wonders on your teams attitude, |
| from the field of positive psychology and specifically | | | | whether they won or lost. Gather the girls in a circle |
| appreciative intelligence. Appreciative intelligence in | | | | and ask each one of them to think about their |
| girls youth soccer can help you build the emotional | | | | favorite memory on a positive note about one of |
| strength in young girls that they need to compete on | | | | your other players. By doing so, each girl is |
| the soccer field, in school and in life. | | | | emphasizing the positive and each girl gets to hear |
| Appreciative intelligence simply means that we | | | | their friends and teammates praising them for |
| choose to focus on the positive elements of our | | | | something that they did that was worthy of |
| most successful experiences as individuals and | | | | recognition. |
| members of the team. By focusing on these areas | | | | I've tried this dozens of times after games and we |
| we set the tone and shape the agenda for the | | | | invariably finish the experience on such a high note |
| emotional development of our players. By | | | | that it carries us through the rest of the week and |
| emphasizing the positive we ensure that we don't | | | | into the next game. This positive result occurs |
| backslide into thoughts of negativity and regret. | | | | whether we won or lost. We all leave the field with a |
| Appreciative intelligence has a long history of success | | | | very positive feeling and of thankfulness for the |
| in many different areas of business, government and | | | | quality of the members of our team who we support |
| education and is a proven technique for getting the | | | | and to support us in good times and bad. |
| most out of your people and your teams. It began | | | | Give it a try and see if appreciative intelligence will |
| with studies of the emotional reselling its emotional | | | | work for you in the same way. |
| intelligence found in high performing entrepreneurial | | | | |