Enhance leadership

1. MANAGINGMANAGING
SELF DIALOGUESELF DIALOGUE
Submitted By: Nitish
Sadotra

2. WHAT IS SELF DIALOGUE?WHAT IS SELF DIALOGUE?
The steady stream of on-going
thoughts or internal dialogue that
goes on in our minds constantly.
Your self dialogue influences your
moods, emotions, and ultimately
your behavior.

3. THREE CHARACTERISTICSTHREE CHARACTERISTICS
OF SELF DIALOGUE…OF SELF DIALOGUE…
rationality
 Trained minds learn to think more positively,
logically, and systematically.
specificity
 Self dialogue becomes conditioned to success and
failure events, changing dramatically based on the
mindset created in particular situations.
automaticity
 Extensive repetition creates highly automatic
thoughts, called beliefs.
 Automaticity of self dialogue is a two-edged sword
when examining its impact on performance.

4. DOES SELF DIALOGUEDOES SELF DIALOGUE
WORK?WORK?
Self dialogue patterns have been shown to
be important predictors of sport success.
Positive self dialogue predominates in
more effective performances, while
negative thoughts more frequently
accompany poorer performances.
Mental training packages that include self
dialogue training as part of the
intervention promote enhanced
performance over 80% of the time.

5. REPROGRAMMINGREPROGRAMMING
SELF DIALOGUE…SELF DIALOGUE…
Reactive versus proactive approaches to
enhancing athletes’ self talk.
 Most athletes prefer proactive approaches to
self dialogue reprogramming, rather than “old
school” reactive approaches.
The key to the proactive approach is to
identify and create positive, facilitating
thoughts (e.g., reprogramming) that can
enhance athletes’ emotions and performance.
 Self dialogue scripts are effective thought
reprogramming tools.

6. TYPES OF SELF DIALOGUE…TYPES OF SELF DIALOGUE…
Positive Affirmations
 thoughts that focus on your desirable
characteristics and qualities.
Goals
 thoughts that keep your mind positively focused on
the task-at-hand, promote high effort, and enhance
persistence.
Appraisals
 thoughts that determine the degree to which a
situation is perceived as threatening or challenging.
 Self dialogue reprogramming promotes appraising
problems as challenges or opportunities to learn and
grow rather than threats and opportunities to fail.

7. TYPES OF SELF DIALOGUE…TYPES OF SELF DIALOGUE…
Attributions
 Reasons or explanations of why we succeed or fail.
 Self dialogue reprogramming encourages performers
to attribute success and failure to factors they can
control and change, such as effort, ability, and degree
of preparedness.
Cue Words
 Quick reminders used during practice and
competition.
 Keep the mind positively focused on process-
oriented, present-focused reminders that should
facilitate performance.

8. USES OF SELF DIALOGUE…USES OF SELF DIALOGUE…
Elevate Motivation
 Intrinsic motivation occurs when people feel
competent and in control. Self dialogue
reprogramming should emphasize these factors.
Enhance Focus/Concentration
 Self dialogue helps people focus on their priorities
and goals, rather than on distractions.
Manage Stress
 Controlling self dialogue, particularly limiting negative
or self-defeating thoughts, helps to minimize the
amount of stress people experience.

9. USES OF SELF DIALOGUE…USES OF SELF DIALOGUE…
Boost Self-Confidence
 Persuasive self dialogue can convince people
that they possess the competence and
preparation to be successful.
Maximize Skill Development and Performance
 Cues and goals can help people remain
focused on performance-relevant cues while
disregarding and avoiding irrelevant distracter
cues during skill development and
performance.

10. ““SMART DIALOGUE”SMART DIALOGUE”
COMMANDMENTSCOMMANDMENTS
1. Be an optimist, not a pessimist.
♦ Self dialogue is a choice. Choose the “half full”
option. See situations as challenges rather than
threats.
2. Remain realistic and objective.
♦ Think constructively, not just positively.
3. Focus on the present -- “Here-n-now” self dialogue.
♦ Avoid “would, could, should a's,” and “what if’s.”
4. Appraise problems as challenges rather than threats.
• See problems as opportunities to learn.

11. ““SMART DIALOGUE”SMART DIALOGUE”
COMMANDMENTSCOMMANDMENTS
5. View successes as replicable and failures as
surmountable and building blocks to future
success.
 See success as due to ability and effort not luck.
6. Concentrate on process not product.
 Process is controllable and product is not.
7. Concentrate self dialogue on “controllable.”
 Possibly the single most important factor.
 Make a list of what you can control in life.
 Make a list of what you can’t control.
8. Separate performance from self-worth.
 We are not our performance.

12. CORRECTINGCORRECTING
UNPRODUCTIVE THINKING…UNPRODUCTIVE THINKING…
Extremely difficult to change
negative beliefs due to their
highly automatic nature.
However, irrational beliefs and
cognitive distortions are learned
behaviors, so they can be
unlearned.

13. ““THE CRITIC”THE CRITIC”

14. DETECTING NEGATIVEDETECTING NEGATIVE
SELF DIALOGUE…SELF DIALOGUE…
cognitive distortions are general
types of faulty thinking, and
irrational beliefs are more specific,
but highly automated, negative
thoughts that create behavioral and
emotional problems for people.

15. DEALING WITH
NEGATIVE SELF
DIALOGUE
D1 = Detect
• Self-awareness of unconscious
thought patterns,
D2 = Disrupt
• Thought stopping,
D3 = Dispute
• Reframing using counterarguments,
E = New & more beneficial
effects

16. REFLECTIVE PROMPTS THAT
HELP US LIVE AND GROW FULLY
What did I learn from the
experience?
How did I grow from the challenge?
How did I experience life more fully?
How can I make good things even
better?
What do I do to follow my passion?
What can I do to stay true to my
values?