Coaching Life Skills – Using Your Coaching Skills In Life

Published by Wayne Goldsmith on August 19, 2020August 19, 2020

Coaching Life Skills – Using Your Coaching Skills In Life

By Wayne Goldsmith

Coaching as a profession and an art form is a multifaceted activity which involves the development of a broad range of skills and capabilities.

Every day during training and practice, coaches routinely demonstrate skills which are directly relevant and important in areas of their life outside of sport.

For example, coaches will usually develop outstanding skills in communication.

These communication skills can be utilized in academic pursuits or in their workplace when asked to give verbal presentations and to present ideas to other students / colleagues.

Coaches learn the ability to build and grow teams.

This team building capability is a highly sought after skill in the corporate world and in any area of life where there’s a need to collaborate, share ideas and work cooperatively with other people.

Coaches tend to under-estimate the scope and depth of their skills and to limit the use of those skills almost exclusively to their sports coaching activities.

However, if you consider the range of skills you’ve developed in your sports coaching and their relevance to “coaching” people – (and even to coaching yourself) in non-sporting situations, you’ll start to value and appreciate just how talented you really are!

Included in your many talents are:

• Motivational skills;
• Inspiration skills;
• Team development skills;
• Communication skills;
• Person-to-person connection skills;
• Problem solving skills;
• Decision making skills;
• Leadership skills;
• How to help people learn;
• And about 100000 other things.

The Life-Coaching industry is growing rapidly and the skills you’ve developed during your sports coaching career have never been in higher demand.

In this podcast I talk about how sports coaches can apply their coaching skills in other areas of their life.

I present some ideas for using your coaching skills in your work life, your family life and in your own personal life.

Wayne Goldsmith