Articles on sports coaching and developments in performance science for athletes and coaches.
How to Spot a Terrible Coach. By Wayne Goldsmith It’s easy to spot a good coach – energy, passion, enthusiasm, dedication, connection with their athletes, knowledge…and it’s just as easy to identify a terrible coach. Terrible coaches “Tell and Yell” – they don’t listen to their athletes or learn Read more…
Mentoring is a great way to learn, grow and develop as a coach. Coaching is above all a people game and mentoring is about bringing people together to learn, share, grow, develop and ultimately perform more effectively: it is Performance Partnership – a performance partnership with particular purpose. What makes Read more…
There are no real team sports anymore….every significant moment in a team sport competition is decided through a one on one contest. This post discusses how rugby has evolved from a team sport to a game where success is dependent on the optimal preparation and performance of every individual in the team.
Behind every great head coach is a great assistant coach. This article presents 50 tips on how to be a great assistant coach with tips and ideas contributed by some of Australia’s leading coaching brains.
What is Coaching? Coaching is the art of inspiring change through emotional connection. What is Coaching? Coaching is helping people to dream – to dream larger than they’ve ever dreamed before – and to create the environment and the opportunity for those dreams to become reality. What is Coaching? Coaching Read more…
Creativity – along with the capacity to inspire change through emotional connection is the most powerful tool a coach can possess. All coaches can learn to be creative – it’s not something you have to born with. You can learn to be creative – and by thinking, saying and doing things that are unique – that are different and by daring to be different you can achieve coaching success.