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…
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…
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…
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…
There is a new world emerging, and it would be fair to say that the old antiquated authoritarian world is struggling as it comes to terms with the transparency world we are shifting into. The type of transparency isn’t the surveillance world that most would consider it to be and the social media circus of…
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…
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…
When one sees things in pictorial form, it can begin to clarify things so much better, for ultimately at the end of the day, words can only say and describe so much, and as a picture paints a thousand words, a diagram can say so much more. So in my understanding of coaching and the…
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…
In all the years that I’ve been doing things, I’ve looked to break it down to it’s key components, so I could understand the bigger picture being worked from, and coaching has been no different as I’ve looked to create a practical outline for anyone wishing to know more. Hence the reason for this website,…
Most people at some stage would have worked within teams when the cohesion amongst everyone allowed the team to function at a greater level than normal. This would be because everyone was working from the same page, had synchronized up and developed, what is called Coherence Entrainment. Synchronization Of Metronomes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aaxw4zbULMs And when one is…
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,…
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…
It’s always interesting about the learning process in the many divergent paths we take, which if you ask which paths we were going to take before we started, we wouldn’t have been able to tell you. And this divergent paths concept has been very pivotal in my coming to understand the coaching process better because:…
With the more and more information that is coming to light, a very distinct picture of the future direction of sports coaching is emerging. And this future direction consists of a core of 3 main parts, where the basic concept of sports coaching is simply to: Create and Maintain a Learning Environment Activate the players…
When we begin doing things like coaching, we always get a lot of information thrown at us, or alternatively, little or no information at all, which turns out not to be very practical at all. And we always get taught to coach the basics of sport, though well intentioned, again not very practical, for the…
No doubt, some have been exploring the posters page on the website and come across the recent additions to all the others as I’ve had a very productive time lately, producing 6 new posters galore. I didn’t intend doing so many, but that’s the way it goes sometimes. I’ve also struck a bit of a…
