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…
I used to base my coaching from the unconscious belief that everyone wanted to learn and improve, but not anymore, as I gave away that fallacy many years ago and shifted to a new fundamental starting point for coaching which is that no one wants to learn and improve and I have to create the…
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…
One thing we do not spend a lot of time on as coaches is in the working out of what is the foundation of our coaching built from? One of the reasons why is that we expect others to give us all the good information, that’s the way our educational system works, and another reason…
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…
A new book has come on the market that adds to the important work of the changing face of coaching, and that book is The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle and has come, what will eventually be known as his trilogy on coaching. For Daniels work will take on more importance as time goes by,…
We keep hearing the term of things like the Modern Game, but in reality, what is the modern game? Generally, it is of the teams that is winning at the time and the way the game is being played at that moment in time. For what you will find is that when a team that…
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…
