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…
As a coach, one of the best things one can do, is to create a picture in your mind of you want things to be, in other words, to create a coaching blueprint. Because having that picture in your mind, gives you something to guide you and build towards. http://beawinningcoach.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Working-Between-2-Worlds-Poster.pdf And as we know by…
At the end of a sports tournament many years ago, one of things I received from the team was a leather-bound writing journal, and I’ve used it as a thought journal ever since. And what a thought journal is, is place to jot ideas and thoughts down and which helps to formulate and flesh out…
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…
As sports coaches, we don’t deal enough with the imagination, and it turns out that the imagination could be the most important coaching tool we ever use. It’s a big statement, though when one starts thinking about, how does one: Come up with new plays? New training drills and techniques? Develop new skills? Revamp their…
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…
The most under utilized tool that we have as coaches is our Imaginal Senses, for how many coaches have an end result in their mind to develop what they do from, for without a picture of an end result, how can one truly build onto what they want to achieve. For when one truly begins…
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…
It’s one thing knowing what the concepts, keys and principles are, though the key to quick start one’s understanding is in the asking of questions. For I’ve mentioned that the foundation for coaching is to: Create a learning Environment Activate the desire to learn And build what one does from the core skills, techniques and…
As soon as one begins the process of learning about and creating a learning environment, one has set themselves on the path of breaking the current coaching mould. For up until the last 5 years, the current coaching mould has been the coach centric model, with the players blindly following the coaches instructions, though as…
The biggest hurdle for anyone who coaches to overcome is moving from a coach centric model way of coaching, to the more inclusive inquiry based way of sports coaching. And the reason being is that the change is so big and requires a whole new skill set, in other words, it’ll be like learning a…
Everyone will have a slightly different idea and concept about what real coaching is about, with the teaching of the skills, techniques and tactics high on the list. As we all know by now, that is only a part of the puzzle that constitutes coaching. When we get down to the nub of it, real…
To become a really good at imparting information, one must learn the architecture of creating and building learning environments. And the development of a learning environment is an ethereal and intangible thing, in others words, one cannot see the structure and architecture of what’s going on for the mere presence of a building doesn’t constitute…
If one ever gets involved with coaching any form of team sport, one thing that most people want to learn about is what sort of training drills do they need to use. And people watch others coaching and look at the drills that they are using and then go away and try them but never…
If one wants to progress in anything that they want to do, then experimentation is the key for anything ever happening. For if you don’t experiment, then one is doomed to perpetually stay at the status quo for change is the only constant in our reality. Of course, the key to any experimentation doesn’t occur…
As I’ve gone along in my coaching development, and I look back to where I started and where I’ve come from, in terms of the results I now get and the knowledge I’ve acquired over the time, it turns out there are 3 important learning questions I asked of myself that helped in furthering my…
If you get the right process in place, then one can begin to let the flow happen, for the process is like a guide and can be used to help of block the flow from happening and it is through what we learn that we can take away the blocks and allow the flow to…
