Four areas with untapped potential
On the athletic side you have numbers. For everything that happens in the head, your experience is what counts so far, and it stays the foundation. Data alongside it makes that experience solid, especially in the close games.
How the team works together
Who feels comfortable in the team right now, who is withdrawing, where is there friction? For jump height you have measurements. For what happens in players' heads and between them, so far only your gut feeling.
How you address players
One player can take the message in the time-out, in front of everyone. The other needs the conversation afterwards, one on one. Without a profile you treat both the same. You reach only half of them.
Realising it too late
The new signing who never really settles in. The key player who slowly declines. By the time it shows up in a game, weeks have passed.
No proof
You have worked on the mental side. Whether it achieved anything, nobody knows. That is hard to justify to the board, to parents and to sponsors.
Build your mental training package
Six modules that combine freely. Pick what fits your team and we work out the right setup together.
Personality analysis
Does each player have the role that suits him?
- Big Five profile for every player
- 20-question survey (Mini-IPIP)
- Position & unit analysis
- Squad distribution & role alignment
- Coach dashboard
- PDF report per player
Mental performance diagnostics
Where does your team stand mentally and where is the potential?
- Performance-relevant dimensions
- Team heatmaps & strength profiles
- Regular re-assessments
- Benchmark comparisons
- Individual development curves
- Coach dashboard
Team sociogram
Who carries my squad, and who slips through the net?
- 7 questions on task, social, leadership, trust, motivation, communication and defence
- Three representations: tiers, target, impact chains
- Players with few mentions at a glance
- Network density, reciprocity and cliques
- Nominations stay anonymous
- Concrete actions for every finding
Mental exercises
Daily mental training, individual and flexible in the app.
- Individual exercises in the app
- 5 to 10 min daily, flexible
- Based on diagnostic results
- Progress tracking
- Compliance overview for coaches
- New content added regularly
Sports psych. recommendations
Professional recommendations from a sports psychologist, every 2 months.
- Analysis by a sports psychologist
- Individual leadership tips per player
- Team-wide pointers for working together
- Matchday recommendations
- Updated every 2 months
- Report for the coaching staff
Requires module 1 or 2
Motivation profile
How do I reach each individual player?
- A communication type for every player in the squad
- Guidance for seven situations, from flow to a slump
- Matchday card for half-time and time-outs
- A reason to talk when drive shifts outwards over several surveys
- Comparison with your own rating
- Quick to collect, comparable when repeated during the season
All modules combine freely: the more modules, the better the rate.
Individual quote based on squad size, league and the modules you choose.
This is what your coach dashboard looks like
Sample data from an example squad. Each module shows only an excerpt here. In the real dashboard it comes with the full evaluation for every player in your squad.
Where does your team stand mentally and where is the potential?
What this module includes
- Performance-relevant dimensions
- Team heatmaps & strength profiles
- Regular re-assessments
- Benchmark comparisons
- Individual development curves
- Coach dashboard
What you get out of it as a coach
Clarify roles in conversation
Captaincy, organising the defence, responsibility in tight games: the profile gives you questions for the conversation. The decision stays with you.
Reach every player
Straight talk in front of the group or a one-on-one. You know beforehand what works.
Keep an eye on changes
Repeated assessments show how self-assessments change. What lies behind it, you clarify in conversation.
Prove the effect
Development across the season as evidence for the board, parents and sponsors.
Start conversations with data
Three steps from questionnaire to conversation. No extra workload in training.
Collect
Your squad fills in the questionnaires once, around 5 to 25 minutes per player depending on the modules you choose, on their phone, outside training hours.
Recognise
In the coach dashboard you see roles, how to address each player, action areas and the team structure. Clearly prepared as a starting point for conversations: the interpretation stays with you, backed by what you observe in training.
Decide and adjust
You keep deciding based on what you observe. The data provides conversation starters and training ideas; after the re-assessment you see what has changed.
Coaches and clubs trust HandballMind
From district league to the national team.
"In the dashboard I can see who needs mental support right now, before it shows in a game. Before, I only had a feeling for that."
Ben Matschke
Coach & former professional player
"The exercises fit straight into the training week, without any extra workload for me as a coach."
Daniel Unser
Coach & former player
"The ten dimensions are firmly grounded in the literature. This is not gut feeling, this is methodology."
Dr. Lena Bergmann
Sports psychologist
What coaches and clubs want to know before starting
Let's talk about your club.
Janik Notheis
Founder of HandballMind · Sports Psychologist (M.Sc.)
We go through your squad, your league and your goals and work out together what a solution for you could concretely look like: which modules make sense, how the process works with your team and what it costs. You decide afterwards, in your own time.
Prefer email? Write to info@sport-mind.de
What would this look like for your squad?
Tell me briefly about your team: league, squad size, goals. I'll get back to you within 24 hours with a concrete proposal.