Positively Chart Your Players' Success
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Coaches tend to focus on what players should do better, instead of positively reinforcing what they are already doing right. Both types of feedback are necessary for player skill development. Once players master a skill, or show great efforts toward mastery, they need positive reinforcement from the coaching staff to continue and maintain their effort and capacity for improving even more.
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