How do you measure the impact of mindset training?

Mindset work is often dismissed as unmeasurable, which is a convenient excuse for not doing it well. In practice there is a good deal you can observe, provided you agree at the outset what you are looking for.

We start every engagement by establishing what better actually looks like in your context. That conversation usually surfaces things that are entirely observable: how long it takes a player to reset after an error, how the group communicates when the contest tightens, whether performance holds up in finals the way it does in the regular season, whether individuals are still contributing when things are not going their way.

Alongside that, athletes track their own progress. Our Accountable principle means athletes take responsibility for their own development, and part of that is knowing whether their tools are working. The final building block, What now?, is built around exactly this reflection, drawing on real match experience rather than how the session felt on the day.

Results on the scoreboard are influenced by a long list of factors we do not control. What we can hold ourselves to is whether your athletes have genuinely developed skills they did not have before, and whether they are still using them once we have gone.