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Author: Steve Miles Date: Category: Likes: 0 URL: https://www.skool.com/coachingacademy/memorising-names
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Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • 12dLove this question and i’m very interested to see the responses as i’m not very good at this either.2Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • 12dLove this question and i’m very interested to see the responses as i’m not very good at this either.2Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • 12dLove this question and i’m very interested to see the responses as i’m not very good at this either.2Reply
Brian Willis
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Brian Willis • 12dI really hope someone has a secret tip for this because I struggle remembering my own name sometimes.2Reply
Ross Whitehead🔥
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Ross Whitehead🔥 • 12dYou need to get their face and name printed out onto flashcards on one side, and face only on the other. Memorize them, then you’re good to go. 🤣Seriously though, just keep asking their names if you forget, you’ll get them eventually. We had a new kid come down in the summer we thought he was called Jayden, turns out his name was Blake. We only found out when we spoke to his mum at the end 🙈2Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • 11dSteve, I coached about 500 per week, it was a gift and a curse at the same time. So, I started to take photos of the group before sessionsWhen I got home, I would put the names I knew to faces, and did that for a few weeks until I knew them all. And after a few weeks, it would all start to click.I know that photos might be a dodgy thing these days because of permission (I collected permission up front) but that was my way to do it.3Reply
Steve Miles
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Steve Miles • 10d@Kevin Middleton Yeah - I want to have headshots but they are not available and safeguarding means that I cannot just do it myself - the players do have initials on their kits so I think I’m going to have to get a printed list of names and refer to it with them in front of me until the names stick3Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • 10d@Steve Miles that’s another good way to do itIt takes time tho. But I feel your pain2Reply
Sean Ancheta
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Sean Ancheta • 9d (edited)@Steve Miles Is there a particular learning style you favor?What helps me the most is playing with the players during practice whether it be in a SSG or drill. Playing with them for a little bit makes me repeat their names often and I am placing a face with it.4Reply
Steve Miles
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Steve Miles • 8d@Sean Ancheta In the environment I work in, playing with the kids is a safeguarding red flag - no one wants to accidentally injure a 12 year old (and I have seen it happen)2Reply
Sean Ancheta
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Sean Ancheta • 8d@Steve Miles Interesting. So you can’t play ANY games with the players?Repetition and association is what is going to help with memory retention. Perhaps taking 5 minutes of practice and kicking the ball around in a circle and have players call out the person they are passing it to. It seems elementary but if there is no name repetition it will be hard to memorize their names. Along with repetition find an association and the more specific the better. Ex. Johnny wears the yellow Nike Vapor 15s or Lucas the brazilian samba dribbler.3Reply
Wil Cagle
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Wil Cagle • 7dJust saw my initial response made it on the board already, Name Association. I have used that frequently with some success. While a agree regarding “playing” with them, you could engage in the technical warmup with them or serve as a Target and have the kids say their name as they deliver or receive a ball.3Reply
Mitch Phillips
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Mitch Phillips • 7dI write the names of kids in my phone and keep trying to call them by name and may say a name and see who comes.2Reply
Mitch Phillips
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Mitch Phillips • 7dAlso, I get the kids to “put a name on a pass” and listen to the names that way too.3Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • 6d@Mitch Phillips good ideas, Mitch1Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • 7dSteve, do you find yourself starting to remember them as weeks go by?3Reply
Steve Miles
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Steve Miles • 7d@Kevin Middleton Yes but it’s slow. I want to be able to rock up next week and know them all. It’s what the kids deserve. It kind of feels like I don’t really care about them which obviously is not true2Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • 7d@Steve Miles I get the frustration, but I’m beginning to wonder if it is a natural thing to not know everyone’s name straight away1Reply