AMP’s guiding principles are that competency in the Nine Mental Skills of Successful Athletes is critical for achieving peak performance and you can learn these skills and improve them through instruction and practice.
Assessment: We assess your current mental skills, using a variety of techniques to determine your strengths and areas for development. One instrument we use is The Attentional Interpersonal Style (TAIS) inventory, which assesses 22 different attributes that affect performance.
Development Plan: Because no two athletes are alike, we do not offer one cookie-cutter solution for all. Instead, we customize and co-create, with you, an individualized, tailored peak performance development plan that leverages your particular mental strengths and opportunities for improvement.
Collaboration: We collaborate with your coaches and/or parents as appropriate.
Instruction: We teach you how to access and maximize each of the nine mental skills. We tailor our instruction to you and your specific sport to help you achieve peak performance. We pay particular attention to enhancing the specific skills that you want to improve.
Coaching: We coach and help you execute your development plan with a focus on continuous improvement.
Reassessment: We periodically reassess your proficiency in each of the nine mental skills in order to evaluate your progress, then modify the development plan as needed.
Commitment: To succeed, you must be committed to your development plan, practice, and follow-through. This means working diligently and efficiently on your plan during practice and training, and finding other opportunities to practice the mental skills in your daily life.
Continuous Learning: We will teach you how to deal with pressure, failure, adversity, and slumps as well as success. Often failure offers the best opportunity for learning. Understanding how to analyze and apply the lessons you learn from success and failure is key to achieving peak performance.