One of the elements that distinguishes certain styles of coaching from others is the fact that that the person receiving coaching (the client) will have created some action steps to take away to work on between sessions. Unhelpfully, in my view, this is often referred to as “homework”. I think it is an unhelpful label… Continue Reading
I’ve written in previous posts about how we should, as great coaches, aspire to empathise with people that we are working with but also about how difficult – nay, impossible? – it actually is to achieve in reality. You can’t put yourself in someone else’s shoes. You haven’t lived their lives, you haven’t been through… Continue Reading
As a coach, I can spend two hours with a client and feel that for a high percentage of the time I am able to be fully ‘present’. I’m able to be fully with with them and also be aware of my own state. I’ve practised this mental endurance over the last twelve years to… Continue Reading
Someone on your team arrives to work late … again. They sit down without explanation and get on with their work. You talk to them about being late. Next week, they’re back to being late again. And so the pattern goes on. Same approach, same results. So, what do can you do to break the… Continue Reading
As you may well know, I am a keen follower of sports. Always have been. Two particular interests of mine are rugby union and cricket. I played the first to a decent standard and failed miserably to do the same in the latter, but have carried a radio around come summer time and enjoyed listening… Continue Reading
I don’t know Andy Murray. I’ve never worked with him, indeed I’ve never met him. He is one of those people who may be very different “in-person” than his public persona may sometimes lead us to believe. In that sense, for me he falls squarely into the camp of people like Sir Alex Ferguson, or… Continue Reading
This is a time of year when people have made a lot of new commitments to bring about changes in their lives: some of these commitments are made with genuine intent others with little more energy than a “because it’s tradition“. Regardless of the time of year however, the topic I want to share my… Continue Reading
The Oxford English Dictionary (online) defines a resolution as follows: a firm decision to do or not to do something a formal expression of opinion or intention agreed on by a legislative body or other formal meeting, typically after taking a vote the quality of being determined or resolute the action of solving a problem… Continue Reading
When I finished my first degree at University, I wasn’t entirely sure what I wanted to do. I had a passion for sport and understanding high performance. Sports Psychology was a fascination for me, and has continued to be so. But I wasn’t sure what a life in that sphere would be like, it was… Continue Reading
Some time ago I wrote about how to help people perform better, if they were struggling, by exploring elements of their being that are less obvious, that are “unseen”. In relation to the metaphor of an iceberg, these are elements of the person that lie beneath the surface of the water. I have discovered the… Continue Reading