Base is an important aspect to anything that one does, for with a good and sound base set, in other words, a solid foundation, better structures can be built. And when one truly begins to breakdown and examine sports coaching, it essentially breaks into two words, they being: Base Growth So sports coaching is about…
Sandbars always cause problems for people navigating certain water ways, for they constantly shift, and unless one can read the ripples on the water, one will beach themselves upon the sandbars hidden underneath. And in a way, that’s a bit like coaching, or working with any group of people, for as people come and go,…
Fitness is an important aspect to any sport that anyone plays, but it is not the only one, and when combined with core skills and understanding people, those 3 alone make up a substantial part of the coaching process. And understanding people is a big part of those 3, yet we pay little attention to…
If there is one subject to get people going, it is the world of transgender athletes, ie: ex-men, competing in women’s sports. For here are 3 scenarios to think about for a transgender athlete competing in women’s sport: Would a biological natural women be at a disadvantage if a man, or for team sport, a group…
The longer one coaches, the skills, techniques and tactics start to take on a less of a priority in what one does, as one begins spending more time building a platform from which the skills, techniques and tactics can be launched from. And the better a platform that one can make, the more that one…
When people get into sports coaching they think it is about coaching a sports team, superficially on the surface that is true, though in reality it is all about engagement, getting the players to engage with the process. And the days of just expecting players to turn up, become involved and do what they’re told…
One of the most interesting aspects of the coaching process is in working out the steps one takes, and the further one develops in the coaching process what one comes to realise, is that there are steps within the steps which enables the coaching process to happen. So what do I really mean by this…
One of the most interesting aspects of coaching is in choosing the right words to say to your team or players, and just as importantly, one may have chosen the right words or word, but do your players understand what they mean, are they working from the same page as you the coach. http://beawinningcoach.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Good-Coaches-Philosophy.pdf For…
One of the things that a modern coach becomes very proactive on is in building and maintaining the Learning Environment. http://beawinningcoach.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/The-Learning-Environment.pdf And there are three aspects in being proactive in building and maintain the learning environment, with them being: Framing Reinforcement Reminders Where: Framing is the Initial Outline that one does upon meeting the team…
If you’ve ever been a coach of players, you’ll know from first hand experience how tiresome it is if you have to keep prodding players along in getting them to expand their knowledge, though when players become explorers of information themselves, then the dynamics of coaching changes. Because Coaching is about creating explorers of your…
I’m always fascinated watching teams warm up and what they go through and what they do, and sometimes you ask yourself, are they doing a warm up or are they doing a training drill? For the clue of warming up is in the word: Warm Up I know that everybody will be different in their…
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…
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…
The more and more as one becomes to understand people and the working with them, one begins to understand the subtle power of words. For the same words can have many meanings, for the words that one speaks will be interpreted differently by others, depending on the knowledge that they have. The Power and Influence…
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…
There are many ways that one can become a better coach, though one of the areas that is just beginning to open up and people are beginning to take more notice of, is in the understanding of people and their behaviours, and up until about the last 5 years, it would be fair to say,…
If anyone wants to see the power of using simple techniques well, one only has to begin looking at the works and workings of magicians and card manipulators. And even though one may know what they are doing, when the simple techniques are done well, it looks like nothing has been done at all, yet…
The concept of Framing is such a big part of successful coaching and the building of a Learning Environment, yet we pay so little attention to it, though when one sees how long it takes in the overall process, somewhere between 2 to 5 minutes, one can easily see how the importance of framing is…
As one develops as a coach, what you will find is that the sports specifics will begin to consume less and less of your time, as one starts focusing on beginning to understand human behaviour. For the biggest fallacy in sport is that everyone who plays sport wants to learn and improve, and it wasn’t…
Just released, is a book by one of my favourite authours Daniel Coyle, entitled The Culture Code, and it is essentially a book about what makes great teams work and the glue that makes them gel. The book is so new it’s only just been released and I’ve just put an order in for it,…
