Teamwork is always a hot topic in coaching and in business. Well, if coaching is your business there are some actions that a helpful in promoting teamwork, such as, role clarity, action clarity, and a sense of individual purpose. These components of leadership are usually perceived as logical strategies employed by leaders to achieve strong results by the followers. However, the emotions generated by a player’s response to the leaders style and tactics, will have enormous impact on the entire team’s productivity. "Affect" is often ignored by coach who feel more comfortable with X's and O's. Affected is defined as: Affect refers to the experience of feeling or emotion. Affect is a key part of the process of an organism's interaction with stimuli.
We literally have biological responses to our own thoughts and experiences. For example the work by(Bernhardt, Dabbs, Fielden & Lutter, 1998). has shown us that we can increased and decreased levels of testosterone by watching our team win or lose. Here is a nice short clip, which covers the chemistry involved in the psycho-emotional part of teamwork. However, don't miss the real meat on the bone here, there are some very actionable steps laid out that coaches can follow to help build trust and team work. These steps will help your players have an environment that generates meaningful involvement and the right biological reactions to support their involvement. While thoughts, emotions, and biology can all affect each other, we must be conscious of the fact that emotions travel 3 times faster than reasoned thought. It is wise for us to plan for their influence and to coach players to manage their impact on performance . We often observe and reflexively process vast amounts of information, which generates our thoughts, feelings, and attitudes towards our environment. There is some good advice in the link below that can help you take advantage of our automatic emotional processes. To build a highly productive team, we must strive to develop an experience that generates positive cognition and affect. When this is achieved our players intentions and actions will become increasing supportive of the teams goals.
We literally have biological responses to our own thoughts and experiences. For example the work by(Bernhardt, Dabbs, Fielden & Lutter, 1998). has shown us that we can increased and decreased levels of testosterone by watching our team win or lose. Here is a nice short clip, which covers the chemistry involved in the psycho-emotional part of teamwork. However, don't miss the real meat on the bone here, there are some very actionable steps laid out that coaches can follow to help build trust and team work. These steps will help your players have an environment that generates meaningful involvement and the right biological reactions to support their involvement. While thoughts, emotions, and biology can all affect each other, we must be conscious of the fact that emotions travel 3 times faster than reasoned thought. It is wise for us to plan for their influence and to coach players to manage their impact on performance . We often observe and reflexively process vast amounts of information, which generates our thoughts, feelings, and attitudes towards our environment. There is some good advice in the link below that can help you take advantage of our automatic emotional processes. To build a highly productive team, we must strive to develop an experience that generates positive cognition and affect. When this is achieved our players intentions and actions will become increasing supportive of the teams goals.
http://blogs.hbr.org/video/2012/06/the-molecule-behind-effective.html
