When people begin coaching, one of the first things they do is to begin looking for the secret to coaching, and if one keeps looking for long enough, what you’ll ultimately find is that there is no secret to coaching. For the secret of coaching is effectively an illusion, and where the real skill comes…
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…
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,…
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…
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,…
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 coaching sports, there is a mass of information out there, where do you start, well you can only start with what you know and then it becomes a case of sorting the priorities for what one wants to achieve. And because in reality, as coaches, we spend so little time…
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…
In my bid in understanding sports coaching better, there’s now a new coaching poster and free Ebook that’s been added to the collection that’s been put together over the years and is now available on the website for down load. The coaching poster revolves around the 4 types of sporting skills that one finds http://beawinningcoach.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Be-A-Winning-Coach-4-Types-of-Sporting-Skills-A3-Poster.pdf…
Whenever the word discipline is mentioned, most people switch off and tune out because of the perceived negative connotations of the word implying hard work. In the work that I do, we’ve discovered a phrase which means the same as discipline but doesn’t have the same negative connotation and that two-word phrase is simply this,…
I’ve come across two videos, that on the surface may not seem to have much in common, but at a deeper level they are intermittently intertwined, with one being about wisdom keepers of the world and the other about game theory. With game theory being about two styles of leadership with one working through decisions…
The biggest problem for most coaches is that they wait around for talent to come, though by doing that, one will always be behind the proverbial 8 ball. To get ahead as a coach, one needs to be able to create talent. And if one has the belief that there is talent all around, that…
I’ve talked quite a bit about the imagination and the creating of a blueprint, it’s time now to look at it in practical terms. I’ll use sport as the example, though in reality, one can apply creating the blueprint from your imagination to anything that they do. Since it all begins with the imagination, as…
The traditional model of a leader that is presented to us is one of someone in a perceived position of authority who can control people and also inspire them by what they do and say, though that has now become an outdated form of leadership, for a different model of being a true leader is…
When one begins looking at motivation, the general concept is that you throw a few incentives at people to get them to do whatever is required to be done. From my experience, motivation goes much deeper than that, and for you to be able to motivate others requires a deeper understanding than most really get…
If you’ve ever been involved in coaching junior sport, at some stage you come up against the player of the day scenario, and if you do it long enough, you begin to realise it’s a system that the kids see through and doesn’t help with their development at all, so I’ve totally gone away from…
When you truly sit down and look at the sporting skills of anything that’s done, you can begin to group the types of sporting skills into four areas, with 3 of these groupings being very pertinent in becoming a master coach. And the four types of sporting skills are simply these: Generic Skills Platform Skills…
We all want to become more creative, it’s how we become more productive, though in becoming more creative, we have to embrace failure and mistakes and most aren’t willing to do so. And yet failing or the risk of failing and making mistakes is one of the main criteria for becoming more creative because being…
