Principles of coaching athletes' in team settings

#1 Environment- what type of environment are you creating to help the athlete focus on the task while increasing effective and efficient performance?

#2 Consequences- are you strengthening or weakening the athletes physical and mental ability to maintain a high rate of performance and self confidence with positive feed back and smart training, or are you guessing and making them afraid to make a mistake in the result of negative feed back and lost performance?

#3 Responds- do you think the athlete will respond to positive or negative consequences?

#4 Reinforce- are your actions physical punishment i.e. push ups, running, wall sits etc... or reinforcement? are the same athletes making the same mistakes? "no matter how many times I tell him, he keeps making the same mistake"... this is only known by the course of that action.