Filling Emotional Tanks
Each person has an Emotional Tank, similar to a car’s gas tank. When the tank is full, we can go most anywhere, but when it’s empty we go nowhere. Learn here how to fill the Emotional Tanks of youth and high school athletes and how to avoid draining their tanks.
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Long-time NBA Coach George Karl on the balance between maintaining positive energy and the need to correct.
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Long-time NBA Coach George Karl explains how his choice to be positive helped relationships with his players.
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Legendary NBA coach shares his experience working with Horace Grant, and what that taught him about positivity
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Interview of Dacher Keltner, a psychologist whose research of NBA teams explores the role of emotion in sports
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Worksheet
Coaches can use this chart to focus on what your players are doing well, to help Fill Emotional Tanks.
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Use this chart to help track the positive things your fellow officials are doing.
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This form is for coaches and administrators to share with parents, pledging positive fan behavior.
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Book Excerpt
Nine ways for coaches to fill emotional tanks and teach athletes to do the same with their teammates.
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Learn how to use a 5:1 ratio of positive to critical feedback to optimize the performance of your teammates.
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Use this printout as a guide to balancing praise and criticism that helps your high school athletes thrive.