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                                        >> Click here to go direct to an Article Review << Sport Psychology for the Sports Coach Coaches, lessons from The Blind Side What to do when your athletes don’t compete as well as they train Cracking the Performance Code Delivering Feedback to Your Athletes It’s not all about the Money in the War for Footballers Emotional Intelligence in Sport 0.1%ers” and the Secrets of World-Class Coaches Pre Season Preparation and using the GRIP Model Lessons from Lou Holtz Sports Compete for Talent Athletes - Improve Faster Success of Coach Athlete Relationships (Canadian Olympic Study) How To Be An Athlete Centered Coach Leadership Development and Coaches How Coaches Get to Know There Athletes Developing Your Coaching Philosophy (including British Cycling Research) The Teacher will arrive when the Student is ready to Learn A Coach's Role is Critical How to Improve Athlete Decision Making Skills Do Your Athletes Care? Do Athletes Know How They Need to be Coached? Generation Y Athletes and the Critical Strategies to Create Winning Results Are Your Athletes Accountable? Do You Have Adaptability? Athletes: Want to Stand Out in the College Sports Recruiting Market? Creating a High Performance Coaching Style How to Identify Another Person's DISC Behavioral Style The Team and Tension Among the DISC Styles Understanding Team Dynamics - Using the AthleteDISC to Create High Performance Teams Re-visiting coach behavior: How effective is your coaching practice? 2009 Coach Survey Summary Results: Evolution of the Athlete Conference 2008 Coach Survey Summary Results: Evolution of the Athlete Conference Importance of Profiling in Sport The Methodology

 

"Sport Psychology for the Sports Coach" - Often coaches find sport psychology daunting and put it in the “too hard” basket. Others outsource it to sport psychologists and miss important benefits of a holistic coaching approach. Find out what aspects of sport psychology coaches can do themselves to improve their athletes’ performance...more

"Coaches, lessons from The Blind Side" - The movie The Blind Side is not only inspirational, it has a great lesson for all sports coaches. Find out what you can learn from this movie for the benefit of your athletes’ performances...more

"What to do when your athletes don’t compete as well as they train" - One of the hardest disappointments is when athletes don’t compete as well as they have performed in practice. Here is how to ensure your athletes perform their best when it matters the most...more

"Cracking the Performance Code: " - How do teams or individual athletes come from behind to win? Find out about the lessons we learn when we win and the lessons we learn when we do not get the result we want. Crack the top sports performance code...more

"Delivering Feedback to Your Athletes" - Discover the most effective technique for delivering feedback to your athletes. It is simple, yet effective and easy to incorporate into how you coach your athletes...more

"It’s not all about the Money in the War for Footballers" - Salary caps, player payments! The different football codes fight each other for talented players with bigger sports bags full of dollars. Is it all about the money? The business world would say no. Find out why...more

"Emotional Intelligence in Sport" - We marvel at how world class athletes ‘dial up’ the perfect performance consistently. Discover all you need to know about emotional intelligence in sport. A complex topic explained simply...more

"0.1%ers” and the Secrets of World-Class Coaches: - When three of your athletes come in the top 5, including the winner, at a World Cup, you are doing something right! Discover the secrets of world-class coaches and the value of 0.1%...more

"Pre Season Preparation and using the GRIP Model" - Get the exact methods we use to start any sporting season on the right footing. When problems occur during the season, it is usually because this vital time wasn’t invested upfront. Unify your team right from the start...more

"Lessons from Lou Holtz" - Lou Holtz, he is a legend in US College football coaching and is the only coach in NCAA history to lead six different programs to bowl games. A significant highlight of being invited to the USA Lacrosse Association Coaching Conference in Baltimore was to hear Lou speak. These are the key lessons from this legend...more

"Sports Compete for Talent" - What was inspiring about being at six different sports conferences in the last 2 months, was listening to fellow presenters and hearing of their perspectives on coaching. What was also interesting, was seeing how each sport approaches coaching education and the role of the coach...more

"Athletes - Improve Faster" - Making the most of your training session is simple. You simply must never be on autopilot when training. A great mentor of mine once said, "If you want to learn quickly - slow down." In this article, I show you how to get on top of your technical changes faster than ever before and make your training even more effective...more

"Success of Coach Athlete Relationships (Canadian Olympic Study)" - One of the most recent and compelling studies about the quality of the coach athlete relationship on an athlete's ultimate performance has been conducted by Penny Wurthner for the Canadian Olympic team. This article shares the key learnings of this study and applies the Athlete Centered approach...more

"How To Be An Athlete Centered Coach" - Athlete Centered Coaching is a coaching philosophy underpinned by a set of values and coaching behaviors that creates more consistent and higher performing athletes. This article outlines what Athlete Centered Coaching is, the goals of this approach and how to be this type of coach...more

"Leadership Development and Coaches" - Inspired by the results of the recent coaches survey, this article focuses on leadership development, coaches' access to mentors and how this compares to business. The statistics are frightening...more

"How Coaches Get to Know There Athletes" - Getting to know your athletes is a fundamental in developing a strong and effective relationship with them. It is one of the 'basics' coaches are to master. Find out what other coaches are doing and ways to further improve your own approach..more

"Developing Your Coaching Philosophy (including British Cycling Research)" - Understanding and developing your Coaching Philosophy is a critical and often overlooked exercise. Defining your Coaching Philosophy is as critical for coaches as for any business leader to define their leadership philosophy and how they wish to grow their people and business...more

"The Teacher will arrive when the Student is ready to Learn" - The journey from Olympic athlete to Coaching Consultant and the lessons in between...more

"A Coach's Role is Critical" - A coach's role is critical in the context of our society and my belief is that sport is a medium to teach lessons to our athletes. Lessons about life...more

"How to Improve Athlete Decision Making Skills" - This article discusses how decision making is a learnt skill, how to develop it, the link between your athletes developing the skill and your coaching style...more

"Do Your Athletes Care?" - Are some of your athletes more enthusiastic, motivated and committed than others? This is called Athlete Engagement. Find out how you can do create more engaged athletes and watch your team's performance and your satisfaction improve..more

"Do Athletes Know How They Need to be Coached?" - This article answers this question and demonstrates the application of being an Athlete Centered Coach. Today I had a great coaching moment...more

"Generation Y Athletes and the Critical Strategies to Create Winning Results" - Gen Y Athletes (aged between 18 and 29) are different, find out what their needs are and how to appeal to them. Use these strategies to help them be the best athlete they can be. You may even reduce your stress levels when coaching them...more

"Are Your Athletes Accountable?" - Many coaches I speak to today, tell me how their athletes do not accept accountability for their performance. Ultimately, accountability means you believe that it is you (and only you) who creates your performance. Read more and get the three critical steps...more

"Do You Have Adaptability?" - Are you an Adaptable Sports Coach? Being willing and able to adapt your behavior increases your ability to communicate and build relationships with coaching staff and your athletes...more

"Athletes: Want to Stand Out in the College Sports Recruiting Market?" - Sport today is more competitive than ever. Getting into College on a scholarship is a dream for most high school athletes. Find out what can help you stand out...more

"Creating a High Performance Coaching Style" - Knowing what your coaching style is and being able to change it, is critical in order to appeal to the different types of athletes that you coach.more

"How to Identify Another Person's DISC Behavioral Style" - A 'how to' article that provides the foundation to using DISC profiling and achieving the most from every athlete you coach...more

"The Team and Tension Among the DISC Styles" - Each DISC Style has their own priorities and pace. With different preferences, conflict arises. This articles provides a road map of where conflict can occur. With this knowledge you are in the best position to manage the conflict before it takes a negative toll on your athletes and team...more

"Understanding Team Dynamics - Using the AthleteDISC to Create High Performance Teams" - Being a great team player is about being the best player for the team, not the best player in the team. This article provides an invaluable case study to maximise your understanding of team dynamics. Applying this information to create a high performance team...more

"Re-visiting coach behavior: How effective is your coaching practice?" - Used with Permission by Dr. Chris Cushion. Coaching can be complex. There is a lot going on at any given time. This article focuses on what is within the control of the coach. Ultimately the coach is responsible for their own behaviour...more

"2009 Coach Survey Summary Results: Evolution of the Athlete Conference"- November 2009 - A one-page summary covering leadership development, coaching mentors and how coaches get to know their new athletes...more

"2008 Coach Survey Summary Results: Evolution of the Athlete Conference"- October 2008 - A one-page summary including what coaches' biggest challenges are and what are the characteristics of a phenomenal coach...more

"Importance of Profiling in Sport" - What is sports profiling? And how would your behaviour effect your results? Find out what the role of coaches is in sport and the importance of profiling for coaches...more

"The Methodology" - Two unique profiling systems, one for coaches and one for athletes are the only two sport specific behavioral profiles available in the world today. Find out in detail the methodology for these profiling products (known as the AthleteDISC and CoachDISC model).more

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