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,…
Coaching, like any subject that has a lot of information, and complex information at that, is always, where does one start, and what always, invariably gets missed, is the important basic information that forms the core of what the subject is all about. For when you talk to people about sport, what invariably gets discussed…
When one begins looking at people and how and why they behave and react, the complexities of the human personality comes to the fore and when people become involved in things like business and sport these human complexities are plain for all to see. And this is where study and observation come in, in learning…
Recently I’ve finished reading the book, The Four Tendencies by Gretchen Rubin in which she explores why people do or do not meet inner and outer expectations and lists the four tendencies that people generally fall into. And the four tendencies that Gretchen has recognised that people fall into are: Upholder Questioner Obliger Rebel With…
Being an avid reader, over time one collects a lot of books on multiple topics, and as time goes by one can begin crafting books by different authours into groupings which applies to the crafting of a Learning Environment. The following is a collection of 6 books, and though by different authours on different subjects…
With the reading of Brett Bartholomew’s book Conscious Coaching, my appreciation and understanding of how archetypes fit into the picture has become much clearer, and the way that I now view archetypes as basically a shade of personality. Conscious Coaching https://www.bookdepository.com/Conscious-Coaching/9781543179477 For in Brett’s book he looks at 16 different types of archetypes from the…
I’ve just been in the process of reading an interesting book, Conscious Coaching by Brett Bartholomew, and like anything that’s properly written, it’s applicable to everything than just the area it was written for. Conscious Coaching https://www.bookdepository.com/Conscious-Coaching/9781543179477 Conscious Coaching – Podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1P0CP9FH6Q In the book, Brett gives his own story and the health crisis he…
It’s always interesting going on the internet, seeing how things are developing and what is bubbling up from the grass roots, and one thing that is bubbling up and gaining more traction and that is the concept of the Learning Environment. It may not sound like much, but when it begins to be applied to…
Our brain can seem like a mysterious world and place, and without much knowledge and understanding, it would surely stay that way. But times have changed and with the amount of research that has been and continues to be done, this mysterious world of our brain is beginning to be understood by more and more…
The interesting thing about most needy people, especially when it comes to the sports world, is that they never quite fulfil their potential, there is always this continuous potential about them, that if you just hang in there long enough with them, they’ll get there. But as always, the Needy People never fulfil that promised…
Whenever you get into maths and specifically physics, you always learn about pivot points and levers and with the right length of lever on the appropriate pivot point then any object becomes easier to shift. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTa2EFd3JF0 It’s the same with sport, both coaching and playing have their own pivot points and levers and when applied,…
If you ever want to see how powerful words are and how they are perceived, keep doing and looking at the same things, but change how you describe them. For where words derive their power from, is in how they are perceived, thus in the perception they become powerful words. Power Of Words https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg4_7ygQ11A For…
When discussing psychology, it becomes understanding how the brain works and recognising the patterns that people work to. So for my curry night in discussing psychology I would invite Carol Dweck, Angela Duckwoth, Ian Leslie and Dan Pink for in their specialist topics of Growth Mindset, Grit, Curiosity and Motivation because they cover pretty much…
