One thing about playing sport, is that one has to become used to pushing through the physical discomfort of pushing themselves past their perceived limits. It is not so noticeable in adult sport, as those who have been playing for long enough have learnt to push themselves through that discomfort that they feel, and by…
When ever we play golf, we always have a selection of golf clubs that we choose, and depending on the situation that we are in, will depend on which of the golf clubs that we will use. PGA Golf lesson – The 3 Club System https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBxr7QAMW-k Golf clubs are basically grouped into 4 types, they…
Coaching in the 21st Century is all about being creative and the only way one can become creative is to begin imagining a better possibility, in other words, coaching all begins in the mind. And the old days of coaching of just running a few drills and assuming that everybody wants to learn and improve…
I don’t know about anyone else, what I’ve found is that the Most Important part of a coaching session is the 1st 2 minutes, that time when you reconnect with the players after a break between games and practices when everyone has gone away and done their own thing. Dan Coyle – How To Engage…
We’ve all heard the phrase, birds of a feather flock together, well it’s the same with books, when one starts grouping books of a similar topic together and I thought I’d do a post today of some passages from the book the Winning Mindset by Damian Hughes, showing the importance of understanding people, simplifying things…
The more and more books I’m reading about coaching, what is becoming clearer is what a good coach works to and from, and there are 3 common themes that continually come to the fore of what a good coach does. And those 3 things are simply these: They understand people and guide them They simplify…
I’m always on the look out for books about improving the environment which makes the learning process more likely to happen, and one such book I have come across is The Winning Mindset by Damian Hughes. The Winning Mindset – Damian Hughes https://www.bookdepository.com/The-Winning-Mindset/9781509804399 In his book he distills what successful coaches do in creating an…
For those interested in the sporting side of what I put out, today I have got a brand new poster called, Good Coaches Philosophy, that has just gone up on the website, and now the total number of posters done adds up to 44. http://beawinningcoach.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Good-Coaches-Philosophy.pdf And as most will realise by now that this isn’t…
The hardest thing about teaching others about coaching is that there is so much to learn, you know, where do you start? And as I’ve developed along in my own coaching and looked back at what I’ve done I’ve simplified it down to 3 key elements, they being: Understand working with people Few core skills…
If what ever I’m doing, I’m always making adjustments, but not adjustments for the sake of making them, but adjustments for making things better and easier. And so it is with the chocolate fish challenge that I do with the younger team that I coach, http://beawinningcoach.com/chocolate-fish-challenge/ For not only is it a tool that the…
I’ve talked quite a bit about the imagination lately and the implications for creating in our reality, so as sports coaches, how can we best make use of the imagination in a sporting context? We’ll it’s not actually as hard as it seems, for we just have to use our imaginations and follow our desires…
When people begin coaching, one of the first things they do is to begin looking for the secret to coaching, and if one keeps looking for long enough, what you’ll ultimately find is that there is no secret to coaching. For the secret of coaching is effectively an illusion, and where the real skill comes…
The most important premise about coaching and sport, is that it involves people, and yet the majority of our coach training pays little attention to this premise and facet of sport, and yet it is an area that has such a big impact on any coach’s effectiveness. And this is why I’ve spent so much…
I used to base my coaching from the unconscious belief that everyone wanted to learn and improve, but not anymore, as I gave away that fallacy many years ago and shifted to a new fundamental starting point for coaching which is that no one wants to learn and improve and I have to create the…
When one starts to look at coaching from the aspect of creating and maintaining a Learning Environment and building into one’s players the core skills and techniques, what suddenly becomes abundantly clear is that a new approach is required for coach learning. For the old approach of coaching coaches by only teaching the skills, techniques…
One thing we do not spend a lot of time on as coaches is in the working out of what is the foundation of our coaching built from? One of the reasons why is that we expect others to give us all the good information, that’s the way our educational system works, and another reason…
When it comes to sports coaching, there are many obstacles and things that one must struggle through, though the biggest struggle one has to overcome in coaching is when you realize that you have to work it all out by yourself for what you want to do. You can go to all the course, collect…
A new book has come on the market that adds to the important work of the changing face of coaching, and that book is The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle and has come, what will eventually be known as his trilogy on coaching. For Daniels work will take on more importance as time goes by,…
We keep hearing the term of things like the Modern Game, but in reality, what is the modern game? Generally, it is of the teams that is winning at the time and the way the game is being played at that moment in time. For what you will find is that when a team that…
In becoming a better coach, depending on people’s behaviours will depend on one’s coaching response. And like anything, there are some general guidelines, though one still has to be flexible enough for the people and aspects which fall outside of those guidelines so one can adjust their coaching response to meet the needs displayed. And…
