It would be interesting to sit down and discuss which individual has had the most influence over the recent era of the last 200 odd years, though when you start looking into marketing, one name keeps coming to the fore, that of Edward Bernays. Edwards Bernays would be a name that not many people would…
Everyone who coaches wants to put together a successful team, haven’t met one yet who doesn’t. But putting together successful teams just doesn’t happen, there is a few things things that must be done and be understood which we’ll cover in the next few blogs, though a quick summary of what we’ll look at are:…
Everything that I write about sport, with a few tweaks here and there also applies to life and so it is with the recently completed poster entitled Coaching Package. http://beawinningcoach.com/documents/Coaching%20Package%20Poster.pdf With a couple of changes here and there it becomes The Life Code, so let’s have a look at it: Behaviours: Our life is driven…
When one begins looking at sport and coaching, what you find is that there are 6 main areas to really look at, yet in our coaching training we tend to only look at the skills, techniques and tactics and pretty much leave it at that. So what are these 6 areas? Needy People Information Field…
When one begins looking into consciousness and the nature of it, one invariably begins asking questions about it. The following are some questions that have sprung to mind out of the research and reading that I’ve been doing, and then some of the answers that are responses to those questions. First the questions: What is…
If wanting to head down the path of dominating the opposition by the way that the team plays there are two simple steps that one must take, though most find difficult to do. For remember there are only two aspects to playing sport, one can either be: Compete with opposition Or Dominate the competition The…
Have came across this great talk by Carol Dweck, the professor who came up with the concept of the growth mindset. http://www.ted.com/talks/carol_dweck_the_power_of_believing_that_you_can_improve And in it she talks about one of the most powerful words that one can say to someone who is in the learning process. And that amazing word is the word: Yet It…
If wanting to reach the top, one thing that must be done is to respect what you do. Because how many talented players do you constantly see fall by the way side and it always becomes a case of unfulfilled promise and they wonder where it all went wrong. Behind the down fall will be…
Recently I’ve used the visual image of a stagnant pond to visualise what happens when one stops learning. In reality we have a lot of control over whether our personal pond becomes stagnant or not for at the head of each pond is a sluice gate which can be used to control the flow of…
When looking at how people develop and grow and come together as teams, a couple of interesting concepts begin to emerge. The two concepts being: Create an environment where people are allowed to safely express their vulnerabilities Have exercises and drills and for them to work and be completed successfully, people are required to help…
The basis of fulfilling the psychological need of safety in people is in reducing or eliminating their fears. Once that is done, the comfort grows and the progress begins. Exposing people’s lack of knowledge and education is one of the biggest fears of all and unfortunately, this forms the basis of all coaching. Reduce the…
The most important part of coaching is how one believes the game can be played, because from this one decision, everything does stem. For having no belief or idea about how the game can be played, one becomes reliant on others, though the interesting thing is, when talking to others; everyone has an idea, a…
Whenever I go on line or look at course material and start looking at coaching philosophies and how to put one together, they generally start looking at what type of coach you are and get you to start looking at yourself. Whenever you start looking at yourself, that’s not philosophy, it becomes psychology, a different…
Recently I’ve been thinking about the thought process and how it works. I have got a friend who has obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and they were describing how it goes, about how at times their thoughts and thinking can get into a loop and stuck on one particular thought. So it got me wondering, how…
Description Though inner peace may seem a bit out there, in reality it is not. It’s just having the ability to let things go, not to take offence at what people say and do and to realise that you are not your thoughts. Quotes Most folks area as happy as they make up their minds…
Since delving into the world of dyslexia, what is noticeable is that everyone has got a story to tell. Start chatting away, mention dyslexia at some stage and that you do have dyslexia, and away they go. It’s like there’s this release valve that’s been let off. And what you start realising is how widespread…
Imagine you are a middle distance runner and all the training camps are set up for sprinters and sprinting and the only training you are allowed to do is what sprinters do and the coaches only measure you on your sprinting abilities? That’s what it’s like being dyslexic in the current learning environment. Now imagine…
Because dyslexia is looked at from a negative the benefits that come with it are totally missed. People with dyslexia are intelligent, irrespective of how it may appear and they generally are big picture thinkers in one degree or another. Less overlooked gifts of dyslexia are work ethic and persistence because whilst learning to read,…
In this world of trying to be perfect, if you have got any form of learning disability, and most of us have to some degree, it isn’t going to happen. You can aim to be your best, but mistakes are going to happen. So why not try a little self-depreciating humour. http://comedywriterblog.com/4-ways-to-use-self-deprecating-humor/ In other words, if…
Two books which I have recently read are, Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl and Choice Theory by William Glasser, though written in two different eras and through opposite circumstances they both say the say thing. Whatever circumstance you find yourself in, you have the choice to decide how you react to it and…
