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of authority who can control people and also inspire them by what they do and say, though that has now become an outdated form of leadership, for a different model of being a true leader is…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…
We don’t only learn things by reading about topics, we also pick up more information through visual learning, so in that spirit on the subject of psychology, the following are youtube clips associated with the 8 books that I’ve put together on the subject. Because through visual learning, we always pickup extra information that we…
At the moment the world is in a state of flux, and nowhere is this more evident than in the sports world and the future coach is going to be a facilitator in their approach to get the best out of their players, in other words, they are going to become a facilitator coach. With…
When we come into this world we all have open curious minds, for without an open mind one cannot be curious and learn what we do. And without open curious minds we could not teach ourselves to walk and talk, all before the age of two, and by the age of two we begin to…
The teams, organisations or societies that go on to be really successful are those that are curious environments, those environments that naturally allow the asking of questions that feeds the curious nature. Currently we’ve got a battle between the curious society that is developing and the compliant society that the powers that think they be…
Recently I was watching a talk and someone mentioned the concept of the beginner’s mind, so I looked around and basically found out that at its heart was about retaining curious minds. It’s an eastern philosophy and as usual when people explain this stuff through the eastern philosophy they make it this mysterious concept. I…
Ultimately, everything we do is about the creative process and the finished product is what people will admire, but the creative process is far more fascinating. I don’t know about anyone else but I just love watching the behind the scenes on the DVD’s and even down to listening to the director’s commentary for that…
Given the right set of circumstances, average can trump talent. And essentially that’s what I’m writing about, creating the conditions so that average can trump the talent and in the process the average can become talented themselves. So when I write about things like: The Succeeding Mind Understanding Needy People Creating a Learning Environment Sports Stances…
When it comes to the majority of people, there are 3 areas which have deemed to be sacred and they don’t want you going into those areas. The 3 areas are: Mindset Character Simplicity There will be more but these 3 seem to always strike the sacred cord. This leads to a bit of a…
To take leaps in what you do takes concentrated effort, and like shuffling a pack of cards to get them back to their original starting point, nothing appears to happen at the start. If you ever want to make real progress and advance to a higher level, whether that is knowledge gathering or skill development…
If you want to grow talent in people, there is fundamentally only three things to focus upon. They are: Developing Aspects of the Succeeding Mind Work on the Key Sport Skills Work on the Key Body Techniques And essentially that is it. And if you look at the people who have made it to the…
