Whenever you start to coach, there is a 3-stage process that one goes through, in other words, one enters a coaching process. This coaching process is something that occurs naturally for each is built upon each other, with the 3-steps of the coaching process being: Learn to Coach Learn to Be A Winning Coach Learn…
When we come into this world we all have open curious minds, for without an open mind one cannot be curious and learn what we do. And without open curious minds we could not teach ourselves to walk and talk, all before the age of two, and by the age of two we begin to…
If you’ve been around the coaching scene for a while and been to multiple coaching course, sooner or later just learning about the general skills, techniques and tactics is not enough, and eventually you get into the asking of some important coaching questions. These coaching questions develop over time because you begin to realise that…
When you first get your team together, all the Learners & Improvers, Needy People and Psychophic People will all be shuffled together like a well-used pack of cards. And as a coach, the first thing you must do, in cultivating curious minds, you must figurative sort out the pack of cards into the black colours,…
The key to getting at the heart of anything is in understanding and applying four aspects. They are: Behaviours Keys Concepts Patterns Behaviours are stock standard across the board Learner & Improver Needy People Psychopathic Mind The Variations comes in what you are studying and looking at. What are the keys? What is the concept?…
When one begins coaching, and this includes starting with new teams, there are some decisions that need to be made which turn out to be crucial for the coaching process. The decisions to be made are simply this: What ground rules to set to keep needy people in check What processes to put in place…
With looking at the art of mentalism, regardless of the tricks being performed, there is a process which you work through which makes your success more guaranteed. (I will add here at the moment that the more I’m finding out about the art of mentalism, the more I’m appreciating their craft and what they do…
To be a coach is to be an artist, in particular in becoming a painter. As a painter you have to learn how things go together, what colours match, the effects of light, the effects colours have on each other, different techniques, brushes and application of paint. You also have different surfaces to paint on,…
What’s been driving me is how to pull all the information I’m gathering together so people who’ve never coached before can start with techniques without having to know any information on how it works, though by using techniques it works. In other words: It’s like driving a car; you don’t have to be a motor…
As a coach, it’s important to realise that you are working with a constant tension in people and unless you know what this tension is and if you don’t create the conditions to ease it, you will always be battling with your players in one form or another. As a coach what you need to…
The following are important statements with regards to coaching, though are not common knowledge. Therefore if you base your coaching from them, you will gain an advantage over coaches who do not have any knowledge and are unaware of these statements. “Players are embarrassed to communicate what they do and do not know.” “The player who…
The common point for all coaching is your ability to enact 2 vital behaviours in your players. If you are unable to enact the 2 vital behaviours in your players then all of your coaching knowledge becomes irrelevant. For you require your players to: Want to learn Want to get better And to enable the…
The following is a way to develop and maintain a learning environment. As a coach, begin by working out which of your players are extraverted and who are introverts. This is very important as it determines how you approach and talk to each type and if you understand introverts and extroverts you will understand people…
The following is a summary for developing coaching for success. Firstly, by the concept of Mutual Knowledge get the players to accept and acknowledge that Sport is Competitive. Secondly is to Socially Engineer the players’ in the appropriate direction for Improvement and Betterment and with the help of Teaching Skills develop the Keys of the…
Embrace the understanding that sport is competitive, therefore change is involved. Change in people has two sides: The physical side The mental processes To be a coach is to: Prime your players to be receptive to change; then align them with the success aspects of sport The success aspects of sports are the: Physical skills…
Over the last few months as I evolved the coaching process further, I’ve come to a better understanding of how it all works and how to make it work for the least amount of effort put in. The following is coaching at its basis and consists of: Get the Buy In Coach the Mind The…
The following is a different look at the coaching process and has come out of looking at successful teams, coaches and players and from the material I’ve been looking at. Start from: Most people don’t think for themselves so you have to instil a growth mindset in your players and socially engineer them into understanding…
The following two questions are what have been driving me in what I’ve been doing, and though I have come up with answers; my quest for getting better will not stop. Again the two questions stemmed from the lack of information being given out to what makes a successful coach, they are: Q: What do…
Where all this information is coming from is a dissatisfaction to what has been taught. Again, don’t get me wrong, there is some brilliant stuff out there. As I’m reading books, articles and talking to people there seems to be this assumption that everyone who plays sport wants to learn, improve and get better. If…
There are only 3 things you need to implement a successful development program. Unfortunately people associated development with money; though at times it does help, it’s not the basis behind any successful development program. The 3 main ingredients for implementing a successful development program are: Belief Time Commitment The reason these are the 3 key…
