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…
The more and more books I’m reading about coaching, what is becoming clearer is what a good coach works to and from, and there are 3 common themes that continually come to the fore of what a good coach does. And those 3 things are simply these: They understand people and guide them They simplify…
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…
For those interested in the sporting side of what I put out, today I have got a brand new poster called, Good Coaches Philosophy, that has just gone up on the website, and now the total number of posters done adds up to 44. http://beawinningcoach.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Good-Coaches-Philosophy.pdf And as most will realise by now that this isn’t…
The hardest thing about teaching others about coaching is that there is so much to learn, you know, where do you start? And as I’ve developed along in my own coaching and looked back at what I’ve done I’ve simplified it down to 3 key elements, they being: Understand working with people Few core skills…
One thing that one realises as you do more and more research and as one just naturally gets older and gains more experience is the different vagrancies and meanings of words, for 2 people can be using the same words, but the real meanings that they have can be totally different, so everyone is speaking…
When one begins studying and researching what is going on in this world, one very quickly sees the tidal wave of information to go through, and what really goes through the mind is, where do I start? Awake or A Wake? Deep Truths Uncovered And Exposed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4h30m04Xy4 And the usual starting points are the financial…
Have you ever found that there are some people in your life, and they may even be family, where even just mentioning something about anything, sends them into a defensive mode and it happens so often you start feeling that they are like defenders of a system? You may have even read an article, say…
When one begins the process of creating things with their imagination, and it starts coming to fruition in one’s physical reality, if one isn’t prepared for it, there can be a most disconcerting aspect to it all. And that disconcerting aspect can be the speed at which things can occur, and if one isn’t ready,…
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 research that one does into the way this world is being organised, manipulated, deliberately changed and socially engineered, eventually one will come across a UK organisation called Common Purpose. http://commonpurpose.org/ And what you find is that Common Purpose have offices and trainings all over the world. http://commonpurpose.org/find-us/asia-pacific/auckland/ http://commonpurpose.org/united-states/ http://commonpurpose.org/south-africa/ http://commonpurpose.org/find-us/europe-middle-east/abu-dhabi/ In…
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…
One thing that I’ve noticed, and it doesn’t matter whether it is within a family, at the work place or on the world stage, the conversations that happen at the bottom is created by the decisions emanating down from the top. And this is no more borne out by what is currently happening on You…
I’ve managed to track down one of my favourite You Tube channels, Anaconda Malt Liquor, not that’s he’s on you tube anymore, mainly because he was pointing out the obvious and one of the reasons why I like what he does, is the way that he presents his material. But sadly the folks at you…
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…
One of the biggest challenges for any sports coach, is in the creation and maintaining of a Learning Environment, and one of the reasons why, is that it is a new branch that coaching is only beginning to get into and explore. For at the moment, the creation of a learning environment is a very…
The one thing that becomes obvious the more research that one does, is that our thoughts and words power our perception of things and events as they happen and hold together and strengthen the perception of those events the further one moves away from them. And this is where understanding the words and thoughts that…
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…
