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 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…
From time to time I receive interesting articles in my email and the other day I got one from Lee Smith Coaching and it was an article by Paul Cammarata on player development over merely coaching to win. https://leesmith.co.nz/win-paul-cammarata/ Obviously the article deals with junior sport and the age old debate of winning over player…
One of the things that a modern coach becomes very proactive on is in building and maintaining the Learning Environment. http://beawinningcoach.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/The-Learning-Environment.pdf And there are three aspects in being proactive in building and maintain the learning environment, with them being: Framing Reinforcement Reminders Where: Framing is the Initial Outline that one does upon meeting the team…
If one wants to do well as a sports coach, ultimately it is about developing dynamic players who have the discipline to play a passing game. And one of the influences in developing what I do, was in watching the Liverpool Football team through the late 70’s and early 80’s. Liverpool Team in the 70’s…
In all the years that I’ve been coaching, there is one thing that holds true, no one sets out to become worse at coaching and develop bad players, anyone who coaches at any form is always looking at becoming better at coaching and always looking to improve. http://beawinningcoach.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Guide-to-Coaching.pdf And in the 30 years that I’ve…
One of the biggest things I do and am looking for through all of the information that I search, is that I am looking for all of those little bits that make a big difference. And I’ll be the first to admit that it takes a lot of work to find the little bits that…
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…
There are many, many powerful words that we use and when one begins looking at our language and our reality, and one of the most powerful word in our language is the word Imagine, because it is a key to opening us up to other possibilities. For as creators, the ability to Imagine other possibilities…
I’ve talked quite a bit about the imagination lately and the implications for creating in our reality, so as sports coaches, how can we best make use of the imagination in a sporting context? We’ll it’s not actually as hard as it seems, for we just have to use our imaginations and follow our desires…
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…
When it comes to creating a positive learning environment, the majority of work that gets done, people do not see, for the words and actions that we use can take years and years of study, hours and hours of planning and 5 minutes to deliver. Creating Positive Learning Environment – Teachers view https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqNCiNMuDOs Creating Positive…
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,…
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…
Anybody who coaches to any degree, will go on a coaches journey of self-discovery, for like the players, we’re all here to learn, and those that are here only to tell others what to do, are the ones who ultimately end up struggling the most, especially when the conditions change. For as I’ve gone on…
If anyone plays any form of sport at any level, apart from striving to get better, and trying to win, one of the underlying factors of what sport is really about, it is a journey of self-discovery, in other words, one begins to find out what you are really made of and who you really…
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…
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…
