Psychological strength is a tool that is growing exponentially in athletics. Currently, sports specific and clinical psychologists are being used by professional teams to enhance individual athletic performance. Similar to high-performance fitness, psychological strength and conditioning is starting to progress down from the professional ranks to junior and minor hockey programs. CKM holds strongly in the theory that performance in sport is largely psychologically influenced. Successful implementation of this program, is a competitive advantage that consists of psychological strength, with minor advantages in physical attributes and work ethic.
Training Players to Gain an Edge with Mental Toughness
Conditioning an athlete’s mind may be the difference in the fraction of a second between succeeding or failing. CKM employs psychological strategies with clients to maximize their psychological strength.
Mindset, Focus, and Concentration on the Ice
Psychological conditioning can be utilized to improve mindset, focus, and concentration. AÂ primary benefit that many forget is that psychological strength increases a player’s overall ability that is improved through nutrition, and strength training. Therefore as a development resource, CKM feels it would be shortsighted to not focus on improving our clients’ psychological strength.
XceleRATE Analytics measures the key performance drivers to predict, teach, and develop success.
The mental toughness of the professional athlete, the confidence and emotional intelligence of the corporate leader, the intellectual curiosity and drive for achievement of the successful entrepreneur. Through research spanning sports teams, corporations, start-ups, and other competitive entities, we have found that developing these psychological skills areas over time will profoundly impact professional performance and career growth:
Emotional Intelligence: being empathic, managing the emotions of others, influencing and persuading, being self-aware
Intellectual Curiosity: exploring the possibilities, ideation, inquisitiveness, social curiosity, having to know
Drive: self-discipline, taking initiative, work ethic, competitiveness
Behavioral Agility: seeking out and using feedback to develop skills and improve performance
How XceleRATE Analytics works
We have created a simple and repeatable process that uses deliberate practice in personalized development plans. We identify and maximize personality insights to develop the behaviors that are needed for each student-athlete to achieve his or her goals.
We provide you with scientifically driven personality assessments that unveil accurate insights into an individual’s behavioral tendencies. This helps us determine an individual’s behaviors that come naturally or need more focus.
By then collaborating with their coaches and academic advisors, we help all student-athletes and teams achieve the performance goals they have set for themselves – in sports, in the classroom, in future employment settings.
Psychological strength is a tool that is growing exponentially in athletics. Currently, sports specific and clinical psychologists are being used by professional teams to enhance individual athletic performance. Similar to high-performance fitness, psychological strength and conditioning is starting to progress down from the professional ranks to junior and minor hockey programs. CKM holds strongly in the theory that performance in sport is largely psychologically influenced. Successful implementation of this program, is a competitive advantage that consists of psychological strength, with minor advantages in physical attributes and work ethic.
Training Players to Gain an Edge with Mental Toughness