Sports Mastery

A REFLECTION ON TRAINING CULTURE, LEADERSHIP, AND AFFIRMATIONS It is a widely held belief in the sports world that the team culture can have a big impact on how a team functions and performs. How team members, think, feel, behave, and perform are all influenced by the environment in which they train, practice, and compete. Developing a healthy team culture is as important in the sports world as it is in the corporate world. Understanding this,  what a team culture is and why it is of essential value.   A culture is the expression of a team’s values, attitudes, and goals about sports, competition, and relationships. It determines whether, for example, the team’s focus is on fun, improvement, or winning or whether it promotes individual accomplishment or team success. A team culture is so important because it directly influences many areas that affect team functioning and performance: The culture establishes norms of acceptable behavior on a team, either explicitly or implicitly conveying to members what is