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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
I’ve mentioned previously that this blog goes off into some Left-Field topics and discussions, and just to show one how varied the reading that I indulge in is, here are 3 of the current books I’m reading. The first of the current books is: Dissolving Illusion – Suzanne Humphries MD https://www.bookdepository.com/Dissolving-Illusions/9781480216891 This book is about…
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…
As soon as one begins the process of learning about and creating a learning environment, one has set themselves on the path of breaking the current coaching mould. For up until the last 5 years, the current coaching mould has been the coach centric model, with the players blindly following the coaches instructions, though as…
When one begins looking into what makes us tick as people, what you find out is that there have been billions upon billions of dollars done on research, yet we see very little of this evidence and result of this in the public domain, mainly because it’s been used to get us to buy more…
We’ve all seen a Master Coach in action, and one of the biggest hallmarks to a Master Coach is that it doesn’t appear like they are doing much, not on the surface at least. For though a Master Coach can give the appearance of not much happening, realistically, they are being much smarter than that,…
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…
The biggest hurdle for anyone who coaches to overcome is moving from a coach centric model way of coaching, to the more inclusive inquiry based way of sports coaching. And the reason being is that the change is so big and requires a whole new skill set, in other words, it’ll be like learning a…
Sports coaching is currently in the process of moving from a coach centric model to an inquiry based learning system, and as usual when something is changing and people are not sure how to do it, there is a lot of flux going on as people come to understand why the change is happening and…
Recently I’ve read Brett Bartholomew’s Book Conscious Coaching, a revealing read in which he brings forth the idea of building buy in with the athletes that one works with. And central to the theme of the book is the concept of the archetype and one’s ability to successfully work with each different type of personality…
When it comes to dealing with the mind, when people hear the word framing, they will have no idea what it means, or have a visceral reaction of because of its negative connotations, but ultimately, framing is one of these neutral tools and where the positive or negative connotations comes in, is in the purpose…
