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 one starts to look at coaching from the aspect of creating and maintaining a Learning Environment and building into one’s players the core skills and techniques, what suddenly becomes abundantly clear is that a new approach is required for coach learning. For the old approach of coaching coaches by only teaching the skills, techniques…
There is a new world emerging, and it would be fair to say that the old antiquated authoritarian world is struggling as it comes to terms with the transparency world we are shifting into. The type of transparency isn’t the surveillance world that most would consider it to be and the social media circus of…
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…
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…
In all the years that I’ve been doing things, I’ve looked to break it down to it’s key components, so I could understand the bigger picture being worked from, and coaching has been no different as I’ve looked to create a practical outline for anyone wishing to know more. Hence the reason for this website,…
Most people at some stage would have worked within teams when the cohesion amongst everyone allowed the team to function at a greater level than normal. This would be because everyone was working from the same page, had synchronized up and developed, what is called Coherence Entrainment. Synchronization Of Metronomes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aaxw4zbULMs And when one is…
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…
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,…
When people think of discipline in sport, it tends to be more of the enforced discipline that people think of, though there is a type of discipline that may not appear very significant, though proves to be very revealing about people and their true character. And four areas where this comes to the fore is…
If anyone wants to see the power of using simple techniques well, one only has to begin looking at the works and workings of magicians and card manipulators. And even though one may know what they are doing, when the simple techniques are done well, it looks like nothing has been done at all, yet…
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…
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…
It’s always interesting about the learning process in the many divergent paths we take, which if you ask which paths we were going to take before we started, we wouldn’t have been able to tell you. And this divergent paths concept has been very pivotal in my coming to understand the coaching process better because:…
With the more and more information that is coming to light, a very distinct picture of the future direction of sports coaching is emerging. And this future direction consists of a core of 3 main parts, where the basic concept of sports coaching is simply to: Create and Maintain a Learning Environment Activate the players…
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…
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,…
