SH250: Top tips for Diving Instructors: Performance Influencing Factors

SH250: Top tips for Diving Instructors: Performance Influencing Factors

This episode looks at why students — and instructors — sometimes struggle in dive training, even when the skills seem simple, and explains how performance is shaped by more than just ability. Factors like fatigue, stress, cold, time pressure, anxiety, social expectations, and difficult conditions can all affect how people think, learn, and perform. When these pressures stack up, students may panic or stall, and instructors may rush, lose patience, or make poor decisions. The key message is that good instruction means recognising these performance influences early, managing what you can, and adapting your teaching and self-care to match the situation. By slowing down, checking in, normalising mistakes, managing comfort and stress, and using thoughtful debriefs, instructors can create safer, more effective learning environments where both students and teachers perform at their best.

Original blog: https://www.thehumandiver.com/blog/top-tips-for-diving-instructors-performance-influencing-factors

Links: Blog about having difficult conversations: https://www.thehumandiver.com/blog/top-tips-for-diving-instructors-communication-the-difficult-kind

Tags: - english fatigue mike mason performance influencing factors performance shaping factors stress

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