The Importance Of Personality In Sports

Our group’s code is Enterprising (E), Sociable (S) and Investigative (I) personality types. We, who have the Enterprising personality are actively involved in leadership positions as our out-going personalities that show optimism and clarity in everything we do draws others to vote us as leaders. In our leadership position, we want others to have a part in the job that is why we would delegate jobs equally among everyone so that it would be fair to every member. Having the Sociable personality, we are warm and friendly people who love helping and having interaction with others. For instance, most of us provide voluntary service at orphanage or old folks home to care for the unfortunate. We Investigative “Thinkers” are more towards the logically

In addition, a sports coach needs to be patient when dealing with others because it is often that many athletes do not reach the certain requirement on the spot and that can be very stressful if the sports coach gets frustrated easily. If an athlete fails to reach the expected performance, sports coaches would have to exhibit the Investigative personality by analysing the strength and weakness of the athlete, the tenacity of the training alongside with other factors that could hinder the athlete’s performance in order to bring coaching to a next level. Most importantly, sports coaches have to be Enterprising, visioning the potential of athletes that may not be discovered by the athletes themselves. Often good sport coaches motivates athletes to reach their potential and cheer them up with optimism, persuading that they are able to reach beyond their current limits (Prospects.ac.uk,

This ensures psychologists receive the correct message before providing constructive feedback to the clients. As a whole, we lack of active listening skills, finding it difficult to pay attention to what others have said since we tend to interrupt when their opinions contradict ours. To develop effective listening, we can practise it by listening attentively to what the friends have said and provide feedback after they finished speaking. Active listening helps psychologists to fully comprehend the client’s message and problems which avoids misunderstanding and conflict. Apart from that, social perceptiveness allows psychologists to accurately perceive the client’s verbal and nonverbal cues to have a better understanding of their reaction and the message the client is actually trying to convey. Majority of us have this skill where we are able to detect the emotional change in others, for instance, whether or not they are interested in a conversation. Nevertheless, we are only sensitive to the obvious facial expressions and speech tones, unable to detect more subtle cues such as body language. We can improve by reducing distractions in conversation such as avoiding phone usage to pay extra attention to the underlying cues. With deeper understanding of the client’s emotions, psychologists can be more sensitive and attentive to the client’s needs. To add on, critical