Notes & Rowing Coaches Round Table Discussion Topics
Originally created as Microsoft Word Document on Friday, 8 November 2002 and took 67 minutes to write. Published online Wednesday, 6 Janurary 2010.
What is motivation?
- Passion and purpose
- Dynamic and complex cognitive process based on subjective assessments of the outcome by the participant depending on the goal of action and the meaning of the context to the participant.
- Desire impels them to train, dedicate themselves, practice, and compete.
We are the Champions
Motivation and arousal different things?
Examples of times when have/not motivated?
- Drop out of sport?
- Within the person, future orientated, and evaluative
What effects your motivation?
- Weather,
- last performance,
- crew you are in
Elements of Motivation
- Intrinsic
- Extrinsic - Contingent: possible, likely
- Amotivation – where individuals no longer perceive a link between actions and outcomes. Experience a sense of incompetence and a lack of control. – dropout.
People can be not only int/ext or amotivated but a mixture of all at varying degrees at different times
Success or failure? You decide.
- based on your own subjective perceptions.
- Success and failure are psychological states based on person’s interpretation of the effectiveness of his/her achievement striving.
- Are you motivated if you set the goal of getting into the first or second crew in 7:15mins?
- High or low motivation – an expression of differing perceptions of appropriate goals.
Do you see yourself as a success or failure at SHCRC?
What is motivational environment of SHCRC?
- Mastery: working at one’s own level, self improvement, task mastery
- Performance orientated: demonstrating competence through peer performance and normative comparison
Training programs need to be developed to help coaches construct mastery-orientated achievement contexts
How motivation relates to goal setting
Research has shown support for utility of adopting an achievement goal approach to enhancing motivation.
Goal setting is the key for motivation. Without goals an athlete can slide into a slump.
- Goals direct an individual’s attention to the task at hand
- Goals tend to mobilize effort – increase in effort in proportion to the difficulty of the task (low or high motivation)
- Goals lead to persistence because one’s effort will continue until the goal is attained
The key to inner directed motivation is focused, determined and persistent goal setting.
The presentation of goals often leads to the development of new strategies
Goal types:
- Task involvement goals – concern the mastery of a task and are found in persons interested in improving their own ability (self-referenced/ intrinsic)
- Ego involvement goals - involves the desire to be better than others at a task (other referenced/extrinsic).
- Rewards – immediate feedback and maintains motivation.
Important to note! - Were you motivated to be here for the right reasons?
Intrinsic/ extrinsic
Decide what effects your motivation and find out how to overcome it
Examples from them
Evaluate and re-evaluate your goals
Maintain motivation