I’m always amazed how the simplest of questions can lead to the greatest of insights, and the story of quantum mechanics is one such area. And it was a simple question asked by Max Planck when he asked: What if light moved in small packages rather than being continuous? And as they say the rest…
I’m always going to coaching seminars in the area that I live because I want to expand my knowledge, and occasionally I’ve gone to one in other areas, though being from a smaller area, one doesn’t get the chance and opportunities to go to as many coaching seminars, as say someone in a larger area….
The best thing about starting with an unknown is in solving problem, and so it is with coaching, for if one wants to solve Coachings engagement problem, one has to create a self-organising culture It appears that the way one goes about establishing a self-organising culture is to work to 2 simple steps, they being:…
Have you ever been in a group, with very few rules and yet they still worked, and in fact they worked better than the groups with too many rules to work by, that’s the power of self-organising systems. And when you look at these self-organising systems, no one really seems to be in charge, and…
The thing about becoming a facilitator is that more that when they learn it themselves rather than being taught it, they remember it more. So as a facilitator coach, it is about creating situations that players can learn about things themselves or one gently guides them to the answer so the self realisation comes through….
The coaching of sport is changing, and the way that coaching was done is no longer as relevant as it was, and at some stage, everyone goes through this changing process as the new type and approach to coaching becomes more and more to the fore. Hockey Canada Ad – Relax It’s Just A Game…
As I’m looking around the internet and reading different books, a picture that is forming in my mind is, are we re-emerging from an information dark ages, especially pertaining to our understanding of the workings of our reality and our interactions with consciousness. For the information I’m coming across feels like a rediscovery rather than…
If we all want to improve as learners, then merely sitting in a class room or watching TV and merely absorbing and regurgitating the information that is feed to us, is not learning, that’s juts merely repeating information, and it’s a lesson I learnt very early on in school, though it wasn’t really a lesson…
As one coaches for longer and longer, what one begins to focus on more and more is the learning process and how people learn. And people can focus on the different genders as a difference in the learning process, which I’m sure there is a minor difference, though after 30 odd years of coaching both…
Over all the years coaching, and all the information gathered and sorted through, the basis of all coaching appears to come down to 2 essential questions. There’s obviously still a lot of information and knowledge behind these essential questions, though anyone starting out on the coaching path, these 2 essential questions are a great place…
One of the most interesting aspects about coaching is how does one go about developing one’s coaching plan, in other words, what do you need to know, what do you need to learn and what do you need to implement? And it’s not questions that one can answer all at once as you develop your…
Everything we ever do we develop a culture around it, and so it is with our coaching, and what we do and expect creates our coaching culture. And in developing our coaching culture, what is at the heart is the asking of questions, for that is the only way to truly get at the heart…
When we have a look at the internet, we see what an amazing thing it is with access to an amazing amount of information. And we’ve been using it for so long now that we start to take it for granted. What if there is another form of internet that we’ve been using for thousands…
One thing all coaches develop the longer that they coach is experience, for one can read all of the books and manuals in the world, but until one starts doing it themselves, all they are reading is other people experiences. For to gain experience can be a double-edged sword, especially in the early days of…
We keep hearing how A.I is this great self-learning machine, but is it, for one keeps hearing these stories how humans are having to program A.I to learn. There was an accident involving a self-driving car that crashed into a truck and it turned out that the A.I couldn’t distinguish between the blue sky and…
One of the most interesting aspects of the coaching process is in working out the steps one takes, and the further one develops in the coaching process what one comes to realise, is that there are steps within the steps which enables the coaching process to happen. So what do I really mean by this…
Coaching has got 2 parts to it, and we generally ignore the most important of the 2 parts to the detriment of the coaching process. Most will be well versed in one of the parts of the process, that of teaching the skills, techniques and tactics of one’s sport, though it is the other part,…
If one listens to what others are saying, one can always pick up wise words from others who have already covered the ground that one wishes to cover, and in sport, listening to other coaches is a vital component in improving, for one will always pick up wise words for those who are successful. The…
The longer one coaches, what you discover is that great coaching is full of counter intuitive aspects to what one would think they would be. Most would think that to win games, one would have to be thinking about the end result, but no, one is better off thinking about the process they have to…
One thing we want to do as coaches is to begin opening the process for coaching improvement, and one of the ways we need to do this is by talking amongst ourselves more. This process doesn’t only involve talking with coaches from our own sports, but beginning conversations with coaches from other sports, because when…
