Players that enjoy sport are more likely to keep coming back, get their friends involved and carry on playing the sport into adulthood. Teamwork breeds a cohesive unit that are more inclined to bring about success — and everyone enjoys winning. Another vital component to team sports is competition. Working together as a team breeds a healthy competitive edge that can only bode well for the team and each individual within it.
Teamwork in sports allows your members to work together to achieve a common goal. That might be winning the league, getting one over on a rival, or simply improving as a team. Whilst it's necessary ensure players don't think winning is everything in sport and again, that's particularly true of youth sports , a level of competition is always more likely to lead to better teamwork. To do so, outline your team's objective — and stress how they are to be achieved as a unit. What's the best way to achieve a team's objectives?
Through the power of teamwork. Your particular team could comprise of anything between 5 and 15 players, but each of them have individual roles — and each role is as vital to the team's success as the next. Ensuring each player knows their role, and its importance to overall success, is a key component to successful teamwork.
As a coach, it's your job to communicate that every role contribute to team success. Explain to each player how important their role is, and show them in training by building a specific drill around what they bring, and what your team would be missing without it. It'll make each player feel valued as a part of the team, give them clear instructions on how they can contribute to success, and provide a sense of accountability for their actions as part of that team.
Give a player clarity by showing how vital they are to the team ethos, and they'll buy into the idea of teamwork whilst trusting other members of the team to go about their role as efficiently as possible. As we've touched on a number of times before, if there is one thing that teamwork breeds it is success. Off the back of that, if there is one thing that success breeds then it's confidence.
As a team, collective confidence is best achieved by using teamwork — and confidence as a team can translate into confidence for every individual. For youth teams, the positive or negative impact confidence can have on kids is a delicate balancing act — and as a coach you need to constantly review the confidence levels of each of your players.
Another benefit that's particularly relevant to young audiences, the tenants of good teamwork also weave directly into developing life skills. Those who work well in a team communicate well with one another and must work together on the field to take the initiative and solve problems. Plus, children shouldn't just play sport to exercise and develop skills in that particular sport. The benefits should touch on building life skills that help children to grow both as an athlete and as a human being.
Encouraging teamwork leads to communication between players and working as a team to solve problems and achieve a common goal - things that stand players in good stead in the future both in and out of sport. As the coach, it's your job to put the structures in place to allow your players to flourish. Given the benefits that teamwork can give your team, put it at the forefront of your coaching mind.
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