Making a change in the sport industry

1. DEVELOPING A ‘WINNING’
MENTALITY ON ATHLETES
Basimane Lesole
bblesole@gmail.com

2. Presentation Outline
• Define “WINNING”
• Discuss the need to dev a winninng mindset
• Explain how to develop a winning mindset on atheletes
• Conclusion

3. Introduction
What is winning?
-To succeed by striving and putting effort on the task
at hand.
“NO ONE WILL REMEMBER WHO CAME
SECOND”-Walter Hagen

4. Why dev a Winning mindset
• The pressure
-insentives to win
-media
-high expectations from the country
• Goals to achieve
• Stage of competion
-train to train
-train to compete
-train to win(elite stage)

5. HOW TO DEVELOP A WINNING MINTALITY?

6. A winning mindset start with an individual

7. • 10% of life is made up of what happens you. 90% of life is
decided by how you react
• Foundation of your success regardless of your chosem
field is ATTITUDE
• Human being can alter thier lives by altering thier attitudes
of mind

9. KEY INGREDIENTS TO DEVELOP A WIN
MENTALITY
• Set the conditions for winning
-Mound the right environment
-allow your players to remain positive, focused and
motivated to win
• Define winning to them
-What are we winning?
-Set a clear idea in your mind of ultimately what winning
mean to you and them
-what is the team working towards

10. conti
• Set goals to achieve
what does the team want to achieve
Eg PLAY OFF,LEAGUE,DOMESTIC CUPS

11. conti • Mind set is everything
-if you don’t believe you are the best how are you ever
going to make it?
-make the players to be arrogant
-build confidence in them
• Prepare for winning
-Practice
-have the right skills(through proper practice)

12. conti
• Put faith in your players
-release the grip on their progression and empower
them to take control of their game
-make the players to challenge themselves
• For athletes to become great they need mental
toughness -GRIT

13. Grit in sports=mental toughness
• GRIT-having a sustained passion and perseverance to
work through all obstacles and understanding adversity
moves you closer to goal achievement
✓grit see obstacles as necessary tool to achieve success
✓it enable you to push forward and see results as feedback
✓allows the job to be done without being discouraged

14. Example
• Improving your serve in tennis requires that you fault on
hundreds of serves in practice. Each attempt moves you
closer to the desired objective..... a quality,powerful serve

15. strategies to for grit growth
• access your current level of play. Identify what you need
to accomplish your goal
• create a plan. How will you go about implementing this
changes
• collect and analyze data. Did this changes positively
affect your competitive performance
• Define the goal.Do you need t stay in the course to make
this changes stick or make any adjustments. what is the
way forward