- Remove diva mindset (throw a tantrum if your own game is going bad)
- Remove useless comms (complains, distractions, excuses)
- Remove negativity (scoffs, negative comments, tilting, losing focus)
How?
Can't be 100%, but I'll try the crows special overriding technique. (more on that below)
Thing is, everyone actually wants to win and tries their best, but they don't even understand themselves that they are holding themselves (and others) back by allowing themselves to act in certain ways. They only see small scale picture, so they don't comprehend the consequences of their actions.
You could try and show them the consequences, try and explain, bring many examples. Work on it bit by bit, plow through their ego either gently or roughly (hehe)((David Deida shoutout)), and eventually they will be enlightened and correct themselves.
Downside this is a very long process which in esports performance world you actually do not have, and this is more suitable for psychiatrist I guess, rather than a coach. Can try and hint a bit at this, and who knows they might be very smart and catch on quickly and that you are simply trying to help them, but from experience - esports brings people who are out there to prove something. This usually means they are not huge fans of being helped, or seeing themselves as wrong in any way
So what I'll try is the "overriding technique". Real world example would be - If you wake up early, eat healthy, work out, get your responsibilities straightened out, do things you love, spend time with people you love. If you do all these things, its hard not to feel good.
Same concept here - If you focus on performance, on doing what needs to be done to play well with the team (since it brings wins), focus on efficiency in comms, focus on personal impact in every shape and form. Suddenly a lot of bad communication habits and attitude things just go away, since they have no room in any of these things. (You are being useless if you are complaining etc)
The only prerequisite for this is - Do you want to win more? Or be on this "I am right" "I am a diva" high chair of snobbishness. Is you masturbating your ego worth the lost opportunities to achieve great things? Are you willing to at least give it a try and start working together to optimize the comms? If you are so hard to convince, lets go and try it out for few weeks and see how it goes? But you will have to try genuinely else whats the point? Can I have your word that you will try? As a coach I am here to help, and I think this would really help you and help the rest of the team as well. Why don't we try? And lets have more 1on1 talks about this after the trainings and see how its going, bounce some ideas on how to make it better. Etc, etc.
It becomes a bit more like an extension of a game, and all of this is just a skill. Another skill to master.
If you reframe it like that, you override it by pooling the players desire to be good at the game, rather than making it as some kind of personal mental issue.
Anyways just some thoughts, didn't have time to have this talk today/yesterday, so will look to do it tomorrow. Good thing to think about it out loud like this here
- You are a fat fuck and a slob, and your significant other takes care of themselves
- You are on a team, doing your best to find angles to play and win, while your team members do not contribute towards proactive plays and only complain about failures
- Someone cooks and cleans everyday, and you just "let them"and never even try to contribute
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