Advantage, set, match – that’s a wrap, and when it comes to the music industry, nowhere is creative talent taken more advantage of is within the music industry. And two creative bands with very sad stories of being taking advantage of were The Small Faces and Badfinger. Without Walls – The Small Faces https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDNFMyvYS_o Badfinger…
Trial and error, we all hate making mistakes and not getting things right, though when one really begins looking at it, all sports coaching really is, is a process of trial and error. And this is why having an overall picture in one’s mind become essential, for the point the one is aiming for, over…
Pushing the envelop can be unsettling for some, though by pushing the envelop, one begins expanding their knowledge out. And when one stops and begins explaining things to others, one can surprise themselves by what they have actually learnt over time. So in the spirit of pushing one’s boundaries further, the following are some you…
Balancing things in life is always an on going process, and so it is in balancing what one does with the coaching process. If coaching, and someone comes up to you and asks, have you got any drills and exercises that I can do? What does one say? I always go yep, plenty of drills,…
Visiting, we all do it, and it’s fun to go to different place to learn and experience things. And when our soul comes into this realm, it appears that when we physically die, we have two options: One is that we go through the reincarnation cycle The other is we get out of here and…
Leading – Aahhh, an interesting concept, but in reality, who leads who. It’s like teaching, for the more one coaches, what one begins to realise is that one doesn’t teach anything to anyone, we actually all teach ourselves. Other people can pass us on information, or provide us with their wisdom and experience, and what…
Path – Follow the yellow brick road, or do you. There are many paths we take in life, and at times we do not know whether we are on the right path or not, that comes with experience and inner knowing. Though one common road we all take, or should take, is the path of…
Yellow canaries were always used in coal mines as a way of showing when there was a build up of gas, and when the canary fell over, it was time to get out of the mine until the gas had cleared and it was safe to go back in. And of course, Yellow was the…
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…
