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Q&A with MCC and Coach Course Leader at ACAP, Mark Setch
If you’ve spent a long time in the professional coaching industry, chances are you have come across Mark Setch. Coaching Course Leader at the Australian College for Applied Professions (ACAP), Mark is an MCC, clocking up thousands of hours across his career.
A Great Coach can Coach Anywhere
Think beyond the consulting room and incorporate the benefits of coaching from anywhere.
Why AI Will Not Replace Coaching in Government Organisations and ICT Projects
The enduring value of human insight in complex public sector environments. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made significant inroads across many sectors, revolutionising processes, boosting efficiency, and providing insights at scale. In government organisations, particularly within Information and Communications Technology (ICT) projects, AI’s potential to automate tasks and analyse vast datasets is undeniable.
Coaching with Integrity: Why Coaches Must Resist the Lure of Social Media Hype and Large Group Programmes
Reaffirming the True Purpose and Ethics of the Coaching Profession In recent years, the coaching industry has witnessed a surge in social media advertisements promoting large group coaching programmes, often accompanied by promises of rapid financial success.
Business Recovery
The challenges that the pandemic has brought into each and every one of our lives has been unprecedented. They’re difficulties that pay no mind to geography, class, gender or creed, I’d argue the impacts of the pandemic have been felt by every person on the planet in some form or another.
Recovery Coaching
ICF Australasia President – Kathy Tracey looks back on the year.
Unhindered
For the last ten years, the pursuit of solving the insecurity problem has become my obsession. It has entirely captured my attention and all ambition I have for my life is directed to this end.
Wellbeing Coaching
Coaching in the Time of COVID-19 or What they don’t Teach you in Coaching School
Coaching Through Crisis
Creating a Sense of Safety in Your Remote Conversations
Business Coaching Through COVID
Put Your Oxygen Mask on First, to Build Your Business?
Resilience Coaching
Being a business coach is a dream job. The click you have with your coachee is indescribable. The things you share, the actions you agree on, the progress you make. The intimacy is almost like a marriage.
Technocoach
Optimizing the Use of Technology in Effective Sports Coaching.
7 Secrets to Keeping It Human
7 Secrets to ‘Keeping it Human’ in an Increasingly AI-Driven World
Technology and Culture
As we are fast approaching the end of this decade, it’s important to focus on a 2020 vision (excuse the pun). We all know the goal of any product or service is to create memorable experiences for customers but what about the great people you work with?
High Performance Technology
THE KEY TO BECOMING INJURY FREE WITH NEW TECHNOLOGY!
Technology and the Coaching Relationship
What not to do when taking a sideways or downward career step
PR Tools for Coaches
By its very nature, public relations is all about getting attention, standing out, being noticed and creating relationships with the people you want to do business with.
Personal Branding Tools
PERSONAL BRANDING TOOLS TO TAKE YOU TO THE TOP
Social Media and Coaching
Are you using social media? Or is social media using you? Our phones can be a great tool, but remember they are a tool that we need to control. Sadly, mobile phone addiction is a serious problem.
Grand Final Coaching
GRAND FINAL GRABS – WHAT I’VE LEARNT ABOUT PEOPLE AND PERFORMANCE UNDER PRESSURE.
The Grand Final of Grand Finals
“One cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening and what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie.”
Leadership at the Grand Final
My first impressions of John were positive. He worked as a business advisor and came across as a self-assured professional. We got talking and he inquired about my line of work. I said I’m a change fitness coach (and then had to explain what that means).
Coaching by Referral
It’s a common misperception that referrals only come from past customers. Undeniably they’re an important group, but to presuppose someone has to experience you before they refer others to you is simply wrong.
High Performance Mindset
"How do we better educate players and how do we empower players to take better control of the issues?" - Steve Hocking, AFL, General Manager of Football Operations
Coach to Lead
“A good coach can change a game…a great coach can change a life”
Inclusive Coaching
There’s no doubt about it. Inclusion and diversity is on trend in Australian sport. Being inclusive is the thing to be! Sports now have Inclusion Officers engaged to design programs that create greater diversity in sport participation. Some sports have entire departments dedicated to inclusion and d
Coaching Across Borders
We all know the age-old quote, "When one door closes, another opens." What most don't know is the other half of this famous quote by Alexander Graham Bell. "But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." The first half of this q
9 Accelerators to Building a Coaching Business on Referrals
9 Accelerators To Building A Business On Referrals & Warm Qualified Leads
To Coach or Not to Coach
To Coach or Not – How Do You Know When to Coach?
Leadership Coaching
Personal Branding Is For Your Fans.Developing a stand out personal brand as coach is exactly like preparing for grand finals, with equal measures of blood, sweat and tears.
HR Coaching
You might be asking, what is this unpacking baggage, I am not traveling! Let’s have a real discussion about baggage. Yep, we all have it. We have good and bad ways of managing ourselves. We have our natural programming that guides us throughout our day. Most of the time, we are not even aware of the
Coaching the Grand Final
After an excellent article written around Matt Wilkie, IRFU’s head of coach development, it pushed me down a rabbit hole, looking at how we can adjust our focus to the how and whom we coach, rather than the specific content, or focusing solely on the what aspects such as technical, tactical and stra
5 Habits for Developing Emotional Resilience
Developing emotional resilience is the key to having the capacity to handle stress in any form and at any time in your life. Channeling stress into a positive energy can radically improve your performance and creativity, making you brighter and quicker. This is crucial in the short and the long term
Non-Judgmental Coaching
Many coaches happily claim to be entirely ‘non-judgmental’. I'm happy to admit I've made the same claim on numerous occasions. However, the more I learn about coaching (and myself), the more I'm led to question this claim, including my own version of it. So, let's explore the question, is it humanly
On the Coaching Starting Blocks
If you’re already an experienced coach, how would you go about starting your coaching career all over again?
Leadership and Career
Before you spend any more time, money or energy chasing new prospects it might be a good idea to first get CLEAR about the most likely way people will find you.
Career Reinvention
Career coaching sits within the executive and organisational coaching space, as an effective tool for individuals; leaders and organisations who want to develop careers, build teams or manage inevitable change. Let’s look at some popular FAQs?
Career Coaching and Generations
How Career Coaching is Evolving to Serve 5 Generations
Authentic Career Coaching
How to win a race without the finish line?
Coaching in Bangkok
Interview with Jean-Francois Cousin, Speaker, Author and Master Certified Coach (ICF) and Chairman of the Global Board 2019, International Coach Federation.
Executive Career Coaching
Responsible Leadership and how to give permission to treat employees in a way that promotes natural human behaviour
Career Coaching
In order to demand the level of fees that today’s successful coaches command, and to build and maintain a coaching practice that will exceed your expectations, credibility is the #1 currency that you must possess… and it should be cultivated at every opportunity. My 25 years as a successful Career C
Contextual Thinkers
Are you a glass half empty or a glass half full kind of person? People who move through varying degrees of pessimism and optimism depending on the situation are known as contextual thinkers.
Cancer Coaching Australia
1 in 2 Australian men and 1 in 3 Australian women will be diagnosed with cancer by the age of 85.
Are Results-Based Goals a Bad Thing
the object of a person's ambition or effort; an aim or desired result.
Coaching Doctors
For many years I have worked as a psychologist. Often my clients have been experiencing a health crisis, so I have listened to lots of stories about health care, many of which have been distressing and disappointing.
The Dark Side of Entrepreneurship
Recognising 5 Signs of Entrepreneurial Anxiety
The Entrepreneurial Mindset
PART 1 OF AN EXCLUSIVE 6 PART SERIES
The Power of Thought
Recently, scientists at the Institute of HeartMath in the US have been exploring the concept of how emotions affect health.
Patient Engagement
How Physicians Successfully Implement Engagement Programs
Healthy Coach, Better Coaching
Healthy Coach – Better Coaching: Ten Tips for Sports Coaches to Stay Healthy and Happy.
Coaching Through an ADHD Lens
If you are working as a coach, there’s a good chance that you are coaching someone with ADHD (Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder), whether they have been diagnosed or not. They may have been referred to you for coaching due to unsatisfactory performance in the workplace.
Your Spiritual Dictionary
They elevate our business, relationships and life to an unfathomable degree. Words literally make or break everything we set out to do. They play a huge role in how we write the stories of our lives.
Coaching Medical
A Must for Medical Career Progression
ICF Celebrates 20 Years
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the International Coach Federation’s Australasia Charter Chapter, and it is remarkable just how far the coaching profession has come. In 1999, coaching was a profession in its infancy, with few practitioners, no commonly accepted standards and a very limited e
Entrepreneur Mental Health
Strengthening the Mental Health of Business Owners
Future You
Maintain your quiddity as you step your way through life — your essence, your uniqueness. Celebrate oddity! No matter what you do in your Future You, always include social skills, emotional smarts, and grit.
The Future of Sports Governance
The traditional way of managing clubs and associations with paper and shoe boxes is no longer holding up with the requirements put on organisations these days. Volunteers are hard to come by and the workload continues to increase. Just as accounting has been through a transition from manual to full
The Future Possibilities of Coaching
Coaching is a way of being. It is a way to encourage, empower, engage, and even enlighten.
The Future is People-Focused
The future is something I've been speaking about, reading about and exploring over the last two years. Visions of our future, the future of our work and of humanity abound as we move through this transitional industrial chapter. More specifically what might it mean for our particular profession, coa
Humanity Reimagined
There is no question; the Fourth Industrial Revolution will bring about significant change for almost every aspect of society.
Coaching as a Mindset Hack
“The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.”
The Future of Sports Coaching
THE FUTURE OF SPORTS COACHINGIT’S NOT JUST A NUMBERS GAME
Coaching by the Numbers
Coaching by Numbers: Is data analytics the future of sports coaching?
Reducing Inactivity
REDUCING INACTIVITY, ATHLETE-CENTRED PEDAGOGY AND ENGAGING WITH THE EDUCATION SECTOR
Sports Coaching 2030
Coaching Kids in the era of Robots, Drones, Screens and Clouds.
Smart Culture
For the last 8 years, I have worked with over 50 different organisations and believe Smart Culture is foundational to developing great teams, families, and organizations. From the affluent streets of Sydney to the developing streets of Phnom Penh. From corporate biggies, small business, partner comp
Being Human in the Age of AI
On being human in the age of AI and the role of coaching as a meaning-making intervention
A Technology Tsunami is Coming
With The First Waves Hitting The Coaching Industry Now
The Future of Coaching Technology
Like all other booming industries expected to significantly grow over the next decades, professional coaching is now integrating specific new technologies and innovations designed and developed to boost coaching businesses and take client relationship to a new level. There is a new concept in an “al
Coaching Opportunities in 2019
If you look round our cities and suburbs, you’ll have seen the new breed of worker. Hunched over a laptop in a café, lounging in a coworking space, riding along the pavement with someone’s lunch, or sitting alongside you on the train, work is being done very, very differently. And the opportunities
Growing a Coach Training Business
From Teacher to Life Coaching College Founder
Are Coaches Educators or Trainers
Exploring the Many Roles We Play
LEAP: The Coaching Movie
38 Coaches, 4 Lives, One Transformative Year
Local Hero
Professional Boxer and Community Boxing Coach
Burn Down the Training Room
Coach Development That Really Matters
Train Your Brain
Way back in 1989, Glenn Capelli recorded a series of cassette tapes called Train Your Brain — a guide to learning and living with a positive attitude, exploring the inner workings of your magic brain.
Talent Duplication
Have visible accountability without having to do more reporting
A Strategic Plan for Extreme Disruption
"Carefully observe oneself and one's situation, carefully observe others, and carefully observe one's environment. Consider fully, act decisively." - Kano Jigoro – Jiu-Jitsu Martial Arts Master
Structure Creates Space
Structure creates space is a philosophy proffered by my partner when he harkens back to his rugby coaching days. I love rugby, go the All Blacks! Guess where I hail from? I don’t however, love structure.
Personal Performance Review
Professional coaching requires a high degree of self-motivation and self-management.
Professional Speakers Australia
I love speaking! The privilege of standing on stage and sharing a leadership communication message 1:many… well, it’s the biggest stretch and the best move I made commercially to amplify my influence and bring about real, relevant change in the shortest timeframe.
Mindful Management and NLP
In Australia/New Zealand, employee engagement scores fall below worldwide engagement levels, despite employees rating satisfaction in their overall life higher than any other global region (Gallup, 2017).
Five Coaching Hacks
The challenge is finding the time and a fast track process to use, given how busy most leaders are with competing priorities pulling them in multiple directions. To accomplish more, leaders need to learnhow to hack their current approach to coaching with new ways of thinking and influencing that wil
Four Visual Models for Your Training
We know our clients are overloaded with a million different pieces of information daily, so how do we make sure that what we’re sharing in our trainings has a better chance of sticking? Information that your attendees can actually recall what you have shared and more importantly put it into practice
The Gold Standard in Coaching
As I write this article, we are only a few weeks out from the AGM on 7 September 2018, which signals the start of my year as President of ICF Australasia.
7 Aspects to Growing Your Business
Running an enterprise will put a lot of weight on your client’s shoulders. You are not there as a coach to lift that weight from them, but to help them build the self and business leadership muscles n...
Corporate Mentoring
The Business and Executive Coaching industry has long known the value of mentoring within an organisation. Executive Coaching often occurs at the C and SVP levels within larger organisations. What is
The Importance of Storytelling
When a baker was found to be short-shifting the locals, he’d be run out of town eventually; but not before suffering a slow decline in sales due to everyone talking about his sneaky ways.
Demonstrating Your Worth
The tricky part comes when you are pitching for new work, how do you prove that what you did with your last client made a difference, or worse still, with the end of the financial year approaching and...
Cancer Coaching
Cancer is a leading cause of death in Australia – more than 43,700 people are estimated to have died from cancer in 2011. Cancer accounted for about 3 in 10 deaths in Australia.
Who Leads the Leaders
I’ve talked to enough C-level clients to know better. Sure, 6 or 7-figure salaries are great and wielding real decision-making power can be intoxicating, but those at the top rungs of corporations oft...
Leading by Example
When it comes to leadership, the biggest (and loudest) message I can send is to lead by example. If you are the business owner who ‘rips off’ your customers, then how can you be possibly shocked when
The Neuroscience of Teamwork
A coach fixated in believing that his message will equally resonate with each player will fail to create a cohesive team approach as individual’s differences are not being considered.
Coaching Values
I’ve came across and read about several game-changing coaches, as you probably have too. If you watch them closely they all possess one thing in common and this is true regardless of their reach and
The Superman Syndrome
It is often accompanied by “My staff are just not motivated”, “I am so busy doing things - I have no time”.
Body Language for Coaches
Reading Your Clients for Better Results
Ten Tips for Total Image Management
To think that you can succeed without paying any attention to your image is, simply put, asking for trouble.
Coaching vs Consulting
I do this by telling them I’m a business coach who doesn’t believe business coaching works; how coaches who are proud they’re not consultants are setting up their clients, and their own business, for
ICF Global and Australasia Update
In June 2018 there are 34,615 members in more than 70 countries across the globe.
Greatness from Passion
1. things in your life you LOVE to do; 2. things in your life you LIKE to do; 3. things in your life you HAVE to do; and 4. things in your life that you HATE to do!
The Coaching App You Cannot Afford to Ignore
Late in 2017 we uncovered a real gem when CLM identified a Brisbane technology company that is flying under the radar, working on a new application specifically designed for Mentoring and Coaching.
The Coaching Word
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Personal Branding for Legacy
To start with, coaches are people who give. They give to those they coach, and they give to the teams and communities they belong to. Coaches give their time, their expertise, their hard work and thei...
Counter Punch
Coaching Kids to Regulate Emotions Through Boxing
Elite Athlete Preparations
Well… unfortunately for many they are not able to achieve anything like their personal best, for others, they outperform expectations.
Process vs Outcome
The 48-year-old former player took up the role of coach in 2011 and is arguably Australia's finest ever bowler, amassing over 100 titles, including 19 prized Australian championships and pioneering su...
Reverse Engineering Coaching
Athletes and coaches are in the final stages of training – and about to commence their tapering and peaking phases in order to be in the best possible shape to compete in this year’s Games.
A Boxing Education
A knowledgeable coach understands that different types of learning need to be employed when structuring an athlete development course in order for the learning to be as successful as possible.
The Hockeyroo Way
Initially I started with the club point of view, then coaching the state team and finally being offered a position with the national team from Ric Charlesworth.
Diving In
Diving came along when I was 12years old and was a very different experience for me. I found myself challenged in new ways and became addicted to a fascinating and difficult sport even though I strugg...
Back 2 Back
I completed all of my coaching qualifications, and trained as a high-performance coach under Joyce Brown, who was Netball Australia’s coaching director at the time. It was with Joyce that I got my fir...
Kookaburra Magic
There was a cut-off time that I finished my playing days and went and coached in Townsville, North Queensland. By coincidence, I met a young Robert Hammond who was just 12 and is now one of the assist...
What is Culture
Human beings are hiving creatures, we take our social cues from those around us. So, if we want a shift in culture, within our teams, organisations, communities or industries, we must first look at ho...
Raising the Bar
Taking the team to Beijing, he took a break in 2010 to work with the Brazilian team and further expand his skills.
The Coaching Word
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The New Sales
From there I got an honours degree in business administration. In the first semester, I got 4 A’s as they were teaching me what I had learnt as a boy in my parent’s business.
Finding a Way Back
A coach? I hadn’t heard of coaching or Thomas Leonard, the man often attributed with formalising the coaching philosophy and fundamentals. A therapist? I didn’t believe in them and even if I did, I co...
Empowering Youth
The project is utilising a multi-strand of engaging techniques, ranging from Neuro (brain)games, rock climbing, Hip Hop music making, Body Wisdom, African Drum Circles, Yarning Circles, Cultural aware...
Aligning Culture and Capability
True collaboration requires the right balance of people, skill and corporate power to achieve outcomes that are derived from both insight and then leveraged and scaled for application.
A Referral Plan That Works
We are told, do a great job with your clients and then ask them who they know who needs help with their challenges.
The Times They Are A'Changing
There is an evolution going on that is affecting the business world and how we lead and manage within it.
The Third Job
In 2009, Louise Stevenson was my first long distance open water swimmer. She swam the 20 Km from Cotteslole Beach to Rotnest Island in Western Australia.
Pure Coaching for Creatives
Let’s explore that idea. If as a coach, all you are supposed to do is help the client to work things out for themselves, to me that’s a bit lame.
Diversities in Conversation
Whilst I am excited to see a growing recognition of what we do as a profession, the growth is also leading to a significant negative development in the space – there is a complete lack of diversity in...
Is AI the New Black in Diversity
Current HR topics in the boardroom range from mobile workforces, multiple generations with different values and ideas, as well as market share competition, productivity battles and technological advan...
Listening Across Cultures
The result was that a particular team from a regional office felt disrespected, frustrated and placed little value and trust in the discussion session.
Active Triggers for Coaching Results
As coaches, we need to be able to pick the trigger that best suits the person and personality we are working with. You get better triggers by understanding learning modalities and connecting according...
The Coaching Word
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Solve Your Profiling Dilemma
Perhaps you are an experienced coach or consultant and want to enhance your reputation by using the best coaching tools available, yet at a reasonable cost.
Chief Definite Aim
“I, Bruce Lee, will be the first highest paid Oriental Super Star in the United States. In return, I will give exciting performances and render the best of quality in the capacity of an actor.
Three Steps to Business Coaching
There are plenty of business owners who need your help, you just need to show up in their world and let them know how you can help them.
Five Factors to Maintain the Rage
My coaching philosophy has led me to challenge the way things have always been done. So, in terms of setting a vision, it was always about playing the game differently to the rest of my competitors.
Play Big
I played with the Revolution for a season and the next year we had a new head coach, Wendell Davis former Dallas Cowboys player. He saw how close I was with all the guys and wondered who this girl was...
Reaching Your Destination
It could be argued that along with helping the coachee develop a clear, richly detailed goal, growing motivation to commit time and energy to sustaining progress towards that goal is the next most hel...
The Future of Human Development
It was in the Sydney gym where I met Fiona Taylor. She was training for the Olympics in Wind Surfing. After working with her I funded my way to the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, buying a round-the-world ti...
Getting Shit Done
Meet Mi Goals, a Melbourne-based inspirational stationery brand, empowering people to set meaningful goals that they will stick to and achieve all year round.
The Coaching Journey
Having led two expeditions to Mount Everest, one from the Tibet side and the other from Nepal, I often get asked questions about the climb, as well as mountaineering. These questions range from the cu...
Destination
As coaches, it’s our job to mould and shape someone’s potential into a new reality for them. We learn to not only free them of the past but also guide them towards a better future that represents the
Unscrambling the Egg
Coaches all over Australia rushed to become level-1, level-2 and level-3 coaches, unfortunately we’re still doing the same things we were doing 30 years ago.
As Seen on TV
I rang Discovery the next day to find out why it was broken. They said they ran their program, which was six hours, three times a day, giving a total of 18 hours of viewing. They had no desire to show...
What clients really want?
This makes it difficult for clients to understand your uniqueness – and consequently makes it difficult to choose a coach by any means other than by comparing coaching fees.
From Teacher to Profit Centre in 3 Steps
It’s a very hot topic in the media’s spotlight and it’s shaping up to be a key election issue. Unless we can arrest and reverse these worrying trends, we will continue to see a decline in the quality
Great player, great coach?
One such taken-for-granted (in men’s team sport especially) is the value of coaches having been a former elite athlete in the sport they now coach.
Artificial Intelligence Coaching
Before deciding to build anything new I first decided to examine the current solutions on offer. Where they work and where they fall short.
WTF
Anger is an emotion which is could be argued emerges from violation of values within the gut brain. We have three brains – one in our heard, one in our heart and one in our gut, more later in this art...
Coaching is for Life
The English language is a thief. It is notorious for “stealing” or “borrowing” words from other languages – upwards of 80% of English comes from elsewhere. “Algebra” derives from Arabic; “ketchup”: Ch...
Beware Neuro Bunk
Recently released, Pulitzer Prize nominated and best-selling book Stealing Fire reports how Navy SEALS, Google and Silicon Valley are combining neuropsychology, psychology and technology in pursuit of...
Reading Your Audience
Some Get It, But Who Are They?
The Coaching Word
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Focus on Classroom Performance
Then his complication rates steadied. He immediately felt his performance had plateaued and the statistics supported this.
It's All About the Why
When I thanked mom for putting the “Y” in my name, she nearly cried. She had unknowingly solidified my PURPOSE.
Unscrambling the Egg
We were saving and transferring data on floppy discs from one large, bulky expensive home personal computer to another bulky expensive home personal computer.
Surviving the Classroom
You don’t have to burn any incense and you certainly don’t have to sit on the floor.
Relevance is Viability
There is a seemingly endless trail of businesses whose journeys were cut short due to Leadership Myopia.
Great Results from Difficult Clients
You remember that difficult one? The client who at first appeared so eager to change, making all the right sounds, and they seemed so keen to get started with you. You had high hopes and expectations
Tips for Becoming a Successful Life Coach Faster
Life coaching is about helping people to identify what really matters in their lives, based on their sense of purpose and the kinds of goals that they aspire to achieve.
Coaching in the Corporate World
As companies strive to become more innovative and proactive rather than reactive, the coaching model is becoming more common-place in the corporate world.
The New Direction for Elite Coaching
In elite sport, an athlete’s performance is frequently reviewed and scrutinised accordingly. The pressure to consistently perform is extraordinary, and only those with the strongest bodies and minds w
Child Protection and Your Responsibilities as a Coach
On Friday 11 January 2013 the Governor-General of Australia, Her Excellency Quentin Bryce established a Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. The Royal Commission was se
The Power of Coaching
It’s no wonder we get asked for book recommendations so often.
Extraordinary by Choice
n Kikinda, a provincial town in Serbia where I grew up, there were few organized sports for children. When I was nine years old, I had a childhood sweetheart old, who was a swimmer. Even at that age,
Visualisations That Enhance Coaching Outcomes
Visualisation is my most used and valued tool in coaching, and I have been using it for a very long time – I know its’ power and potential for changing the lives of my clients.
Too Motivated to Succeed
I am the creator of The Me Project, a business completely dedicated to helping people achieve their own personal versions of success. Yet, this fact has still not made me immune to my own epic failure
Relevance in Coaching
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The Art of Noticing
As a coach, I’m sure you’re interacting with people all the time. Though let me ask you a question, do you actually notice people? I believe that many coaches, do just that, they just coach and that’s
Three Tips for Young Aspiring Coaches
I asked myself what behaviours can I role model to coaches in this article. Over my coaching career, the most successful teams that I have been involved with have bought into and had belief around all
An Eye for Detail
How often have you started a presentation, found it going well, only to find that you’ve “unsold” the deal? All of a sudden, the other person’s eyes glazed over, they start fidgeting and their body la
How to Be Professional
There are numerous steps and online tools which can assist you in establishing a professional tone from the first few moments with a potential client.
Eliminating Stress in 60 Seconds
A New Generation of “Soft Science” Backs Stress Management Coaching and Mentoring
Get Your A.S.S.S. Going
It’s almost time for the New Year! Can you believe it! Ok – now is the time to get honest with yourself.
The New Coaching App Changing How Coaches Deliver Results
According to Deloitte, Australia is one of the leading countries in smartphone addiction. Estimated to be on our phones twice every hour and up to 110 times a day -- our addiction even ranks ahead of
Are You a Social Coach? Social Media Strategy That Actually Works
Many of us use Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter as part of our everyday life.
SEO Revealed
To the untrained eye, the world of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) can be a minefield of acronyms and snake oil salesmen Having worked in the industry for the past 15 years, I have seen and done most
Coaching in Leadership
Over 15 years ago, HBR published Daniel Goleman’s seminal article Leadership that Gets Results.1 The essence of his argument is:
Your 7-Figure Coaching Business Blueprint for 2017
Read this article if you want to know the truth behind what it takes to run a 7 Figure Coaching Business, not, the fluff, but the whole-hearted truth!
Increasing Your Coaching Impact by Integrating Training
They also want their leaders to listen and ask questions instead of directing, guiding, fixing them.
Advocate Marketing
On average, I get 4 referrals a week. Over 50% of my referrals come from this marketing strategy.
Speaking Income for Coaches
I WAS ORIGINALLY DRAWN TO THE CRAFT BECAUSE I COULD LEARN BOTH FROM A SPEAKER’S TECHNIQUE AND FROM THEIR CONTENT. OVER TIME, I LEARNT MORE ABOUT THE BUSINESS SIDE OF SPEAKING THAT COULD GENERATE SERIO
Advancing Paralympic Classification Through Science
The Paralympic games is organised by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and is the 3rd largest sporting event in the world after the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup. At the elite level
Performance, Resilience and Coaching From a Wheelchair
Who would think that a crooner in a wheelchair, singing in a park would lead to one of the most inspirational videos of the year?
Paralympic Coaching and the Journey to the Games
WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL – TOM KYLE, Head Coach, Australian Women’s Wheelchair Basketball team (Gliders), Assistant Coach, Australian Men’s Wheelchair Basketball team (Rollers)
Paralympic Coaching and Athlete Excellence
PARA-ARCHERY – STEPHEN JENNISON, Coach Mentor, Archery Australia
Paralympic Sport Coaching and the High Performance Path
PARA TABLE TENNIS – ROGER MASSIE, National Coach (Paralympic Program), Table Tennis Australia
Coaching the Pararoos at the Paralympic Games
PARA FOOTBALL – KAI LAMMERT, Head Coach, Men’s Paralympic National Team (Pararoos), Football Federation Australia
Paralympic Sport and High Performance Coaching
PARA EQUESTRIAN – JULIA BATTAMS, National Performance Director (Dressage & Para Equestrian), Equestrian Australia
Paralympic Coaching and Athlete Development Excellence
DOWN SYNDROME SWIMMING – JOHN BECKWORTH, Head Coach, Down Syndrome Swimming Australia
Paralympic Rowing Coaching and Elite Performance
As a young kid, I watched Dawn Fraser and all the legends of the day competing at the 1960 Olympic Games on TV. At 12, I was mucking around at the local pool in Sydney until one day the coach tapped m
Paralympic Sport Coaching and Athlete Development
ALL ABILITIES CRICKET – HUSSAIN HANIF, Coach, Yarraville Cricket Club
Paralympic Coaching Leadership and High Performance
My first involvement in para-sport happened before I joined the Australian Paralympic Committee. I was working for Swimming NSW as their Executive Director. At that stage, Swimming Australia had emplo
Paralympic High Performance Coaching and Leadership
I’ve sailed my whole life. My parents were lifelong sailors and my Dad also raced. He was my first coach when I started racing competitively at 10 years old, originally in New Zealand, and went to my
Paralympic Sport and High Performance Coaching
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Paralympic Sport Coaching and High Performance
PARA-TRIATHLON – Corey Bacon, Head Coach, Triathlon Australia
Coaching the Australian Wheelchair Basketball Rollers
WHEELCHAIR RUGBY – BRAD DUBBERLEY, Head Coach, Australian Men’s Wheelchair Rugby Team (Steelers)
Paralympic Coaching and the High Performance Journey
WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL – Ben Ettridge, Head Coach, Australian Men’s National Wheelchair Basketball Team (Rollers)
Olympic Water Polo Coaching and High Performance Leadership
Rugby player for Queensland Reds, Leeds Worchester for 6 years. North Humber for NZ.
How to Prepare for and Survive an Olympic Games
With an Olympic Games, there are many distractions. I wasn’t really prepared for these when I went to my first Olympics in Barcelona, at 29 years of age. I didn’t know what to expect. It’s an enormous
Inside Olympic Swimming Coaching at the Elite Level
I was born and raised in the Netherlands, and have always been passionate about sport. As an athlete, I wasn’t great at it. I think I lacked talent, but I did love it and played a lot. The combination
Olympic Road Cycling and the Biggest Challenge Yet
CYCLING – BRADLEY MCGEE, Head Coach (Cycling), NSW Institute of Sport
Coping in the Olympic Performance Environment
[H1]Coping in the Performance Environment at the Olympic Games
A Lifetime of Olympic Swimming Lessons
From a rough beginning in Central Queensland, he has blazed a trail across the swimming world, attending 11 Olympic games, 5 of them as head coach for 3 different nations, and has coached swimmers to
Coaching Water Polo to the Olympics
I grew up in Dubrovnik, Croatia, a small town of around 50,000 people. Water Polo is a very big sport in Croatia and I played for Jug and Mladost (rival) teams as a left offensive player. With Mladost
For Best Results, Understand Your Athlete
I was originally a 110m hurdler but ended up having a knee reconstruction and seven operations for an injury. I knew I was going to be in a bit of trouble coming back from this, and I’d always had coa
Following the Olympic Basketball Dream
BASKETBALL – BRENDAN JOYCE, Head Coach, Australian Women’s Basketball Team (Opals), Basketball Australia
Beach Volleyball Coaching at the Rio Olympics
BEACH VOLLEYBALL – Steve Tutton, Senior Coach, Australian Volleyball Federation
Olympic Equestrian Coaching and High Performance
I grew up in a family that was heavily involved in equestrian sports. My mother competed herself quite a lot and it was a family affair. Myself and my 3 older siblings all rode from an early age. I fi
Coaching the Australian Women's Water Polo to the Olympics
I first started playing at age 13 with Balmain before moving to Cronulla at 17. I played for 20-odd years with the Cronulla team, winning 5 national league titles out of 10/11 and coming second in 5.
Rowing to Rio
ROWING – CHRIS O’BRIEN, National Team Performance Director and Head Coach, Rowing Australia
Olympic Table Tennis and the Coaching Journey
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Gold Medals Start in the Mind
BEACH VOLLEYBALL – KERRI POTTHARST, 3 time Olympian and gold medallist
Table Tennis Coaching at the Rio Olympics
TABLE TENNIS – JENS LANG, High Performance Manager and National Head Coach, Table Tennis Australia
Olympic Swimming Coaching at the Highest Level
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Coaching the Kookaburras to Olympic Glory
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What It Takes to Follow the Olympic Dream
BASKETBALL – ANDREJ LEMANIS, Head Coach, Australian Men’s Basketball Team (Boomers), Basketball Australia
Creating a World-Class Women's Football Team
FOOTBALL – ALEN STAJCIC, Head Coach, Women’s National Team (Matildas), Football Federation Australia
Women's Football Coaching: Vicki Linton on Gender and High Performance
When I was 6, friends in my street were joining the local soccer team, so I went home and asked Mum if I could too. I was the only girl playing in the junior club and across the whole league. Credit t
Life Coaching, Gender and Living Your Bucket List
It all started as a one-man show with me as ‘The Bucket List Guy’.
Coaching Men vs Women
As a coach, should we align with the theory of being Politically Correct and treat each other as one and the same? Or should we expand our own personal development ensuring that we are well versed wit
Women in Athletics Coaching and the Grassroots Revolution
One day, my daughter came home from school with a flyer asking me if she could join Little Athletics. We were living in a small town south of Cairns, called Gordonvale. I took her down to the local ov
Coaching Women's Rugby League and Building High-Performance Culture
From 2005, I coached in the Raiders representative program, and in the end was responsible for their SG Ball program under Dave Hamilton, who was the High Performance and Recruitment Manager at the ti
Media Coaching, Gender and the Art of the Sports Interview
Chances are, as a coach, you’ll be able to put that to the test one of these days. I interviewed Coaching Life magazine Editor-in-Chief Stewart Fleming on my Logan 101FM Monday morning show (see what
Women in Leadership Coaching and Organisational Change
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Personal Branding, Gender and Coaching Business Success
It has long been suggested that men and women have different brains, but a recent study of over 1,400 brain scans reveal there really isn’t such a thing as a distinctly male or female brain. In fact,
Breaking Barriers in Women's Elite Sport Coaching
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Hockeyroos Coaching and Women's High Performance
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Elite Coaching and the Gender Performance Gap
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Women in High Performance Sport and Coaching
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The Hidden Value of Adversity for Entrepreneurs
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Combat Sport Coaching and the Adversity Mindset
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Life Coaching, Fitness and Overcoming Adversity
I used to be a fairly overweight, beer-drinking, sailing, boat-building type person. One day I decided to get incredibly fit, train for a sport way above my level and push myself to extremes physicall
Coaching for Culture and Resilience in Organisations
Coaching for improved organisational culture requires a unique synthesis of coaching and facilitation skills where the coach becomes the holder of the group energy, facilitating a journey from what is
Building Business Resilience Through Adversity
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NRL Coaching, Adversity and the Cronulla Way
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Adversity as a Teacher: John Novak on Rugby Coaching and Resilience
It is a lesson, teacher, test and then invariably becomes an opportunity.
Burn Bright: Jo Bassett on Coaching Through Challenging Times
My work has given me a legitimate window to look into the lives of others. Professionally, I have chosen a career where people in many situations choose to share their stories and experiences with me
Coping with Success: David Lush on the Adversity of Winning
In 2004, after spending 15 years following the black line, chasing an Olympic Dream, it was time to hang up the goggles and cap. I had been lucky to represent my country a number of times and felt as
Coaching the Mind: David Berens on Adversity and Mental Resilience
Coaching. What exactly is coaching? Patterns on a chalkboard? The X’s and O’s of plays and formations run ad nauseam in practice until they become second nature to the athletes on a team? Recruiting o
Grassroots Engagement That Grows the Game
Hookin2Hockey is Hockey Australia’s Club program designed for boys and girls aged 10 and under. It helps participants learn the basic skills of the game, as well as develop fundamental motor skills an
Wyomie Robertson on Life Coaching and Client Engagement
Life coach Wyomie Robertson shares her approach to creating deep client engagement — and why the coaches who build the most engaged clients are those who show up fully themselves.
Rugby Engagement and the Wallabies Coaching Way
Grassroots motorcycle competitors have entered into a world of vastly different ideals to that of mainstream athletic-type sports. Some motorcycling families…
Grant O'Sullivan on Building Engaged High-Performance Teams
It has long been the case that great school teachers have been more facilitators of student learning than just fountains of knowledge who simply spray their …
The Psychology of Engagement in Sport and Business
Do you remember that first moment when you discovered this whole concept of coaching or personal development? I do! I was sitting in a hotel room watching an…
Shannah Kennedy on Life Coaching and Genuine Engagement
I have now been coaching for 15 years but my background includes stockbroking in my early 20s. At the time, I didn’t see enough scope for women in the indust…
Margot Smith on Engaging Leaders to Coach Their Teams
For 75 years The Australian Institute of Management (AIM) has been helping people become managers, and managers become great leaders. As the peak body for ma…
Building Rugby Culture Through Genuine Engagement
ARU coach Jayson Brewer explores how authentic connection between coaches and athletes builds the kind of rugby culture where players choose to give their best every day.
Gymnastics Coaching Engagement: Jill McIntosh on Keeping Athletes Motivated
I started playing netball in Grade 3 while growing up in Perth. We had a very enthusiastic teacher come coach who put together a little team which progressed…
Surfing, Mental Engagement and Aims for Awesome
Seven-time world surfing champion Layne Beachley shares what kept her engaged through seven world titles — and how her Aims for Awesome program is engaging the next generation.
A Lifetime of Swimming: David Speechley on Coaching Engagement
Swimming coach David Speechley reflects on decades of poolside coaching and the engagement principles that keep athletes motivated for a lifetime in the sport.
The Person Behind the Athlete: Cliff Mallett on Coaching Engagement
The International Council for Coaching Excellence (ICCE) (www.icce.ws) recently conducted a landmark study examining 14 of the world’s best coaches from 11 c…
ARU Rugby Engagement: Adrian Thompson on Coaching Connection
I started playing rugby at 13 through school ended up playing club rugby at GPS “Jeeps” in Brisbane, but retired due to injury at age 20. I was greatly influ…
Phil Morgan on Building a Coaching Culture That Sticks
Professor Philip Morgan of the University of Newcastle shares an innovative program designed to involve Dads in increasing their daughters’ sport skills, phy…
QUT Research: The Science of Coaching Culture
Over 15 years ago, HBR published Daniel Goleman’s seminal article Leadership that Gets Results.1 The essence of his argument is:
Mental Performance and Coaching Culture
In 1955 Olga Korbot famous gymnast from Belarusian . First to do backflip on beam.
Digital Culture: Sia Shamsai on Business Coaching Online
To the untrained eye, the world of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) can be a minefield of acronyms and snake oil salesmen Having worked in the industry for t…
Life Coaching Culture: Mark Bowness on Authentic Coaching
Here I was, at the age of 26 years old, sitting in front of a computer with empty cans of beer littered around me, having googled “quickest and painless way …
The Speaking Coach
I WAS ORIGINALLY DRAWN TO THE CRAFT BECAUSE I COULD LEARN BOTH FROM A SPEAKER’S TECHNIQUE AND FROM THEIR CONTENT. OVER TIME, I LEARNT MORE ABOUT THE BUSINESS…
Performance Culture: John Hinwood on the Energy Behind Success
A New Generation of “Soft Science” Backs Stress Management Coaching and Mentoring
The Greatest Marketing Strategy in the World
On average, I get 4 referrals a week. Over 50% of my referrals come from this marketing strategy.
Integrating Coaching with Training
LEADERSHIP IS ALWAYS AN EVOLVING CONCEPT. THESE DAYS, EMPLOYEES WANT MORE ONE-ON-ONE TIME WITH THEIR LEADERS TO HELP THEM DEVELOP AND KNOW THEY ARE VALUED.
Culture as the Coach's Most Powerful Tool
In 1986, I won third place in Toastmasters World Championship of public speaking and was named as one of five Young Australians of the Year. When these event…
Leadership Culture: David Angel on Coaching for the Future
For an aspiring Coach (essentially a small business owner) Social Media is actually a convenient, practical and essential tool that you can utilise to ensure…
Domain
There are numerous steps and online tools which can assist you in establishing a professional tone from the first few moments with a potential client.
Prepare to Flex Your Style
15 years of coaching in the Asia Pacific region and 18 years before this in corporate roles with a global company has given me the opportunity to experience …
Motorsport Coaching: Paul Caslick on Racing and Culture
This journey for me in motorcycle racing started in 1975. My passion for coaching began in 1979 when participating at a motorcycle camp. I was then 12 years …
Cycling Culture: How Peter de Roo Builds Winning Teams
I started playing as a young kid at 6 in Holland. I signed my first professional contract when I was 18/19 and I played the majority of my career with a club…
Footy For All: Inclusive Football Culture in Australia
African world leader, Nelson Mandela, spoke these words at the Laureus Sports Awards in the year 2000: “Sport has the power to change the world. It has the p…
Sports Culture and Mental Performance: Conrad Singh
As a South African-born, Australian-educated and raised young man, I have experienced a great deal of cultures in my time. Immediately after completing unive…
Alan Gaffney on Building a Winning Rugby Culture
Former Wallabies and Waratahs coach Alan Gaffney explores what separates good teams from great ones — and how culture, not talent, determines championships.
Step 1: Realistic Goal
I’m personally sick and tired of seeing amazing coaches set goals that they don’t achieve. When you have other people’s lives at the receiving end of a goal,…
Confidence and Goals: A Life Coaching Guide to Meaningful Targets
Attend any Personal Development or business course these days and there is a strong likelihood you will be encouraged to set a goal. The methodology may chan…
Question 1. What do you want?
Being clear about exactly what you want and setting well formed goals around these desires is completely non-negotiable to doing well in life.
Life Coaching Goals: Moving from Intention to Lasting Action
Taking over any role is not an easy task and stepping into an established position with your own set of skills has its own challenges. However, where the est…
Profitable Coaching Goals: Building a Business That Lasts
Several years ago, I sat down with Ken Lowe over a beer to ask what goals he’d set to create one of Australia’s most successful ongoing IT companies, ASI Sol…
So why don’t we?
What is an Intrepreneur for heaven’s sake? Intrepreneurs are entrepreneurs working inside an organisation. We all work inside our own organisation or the org…
What does it mean to Recalculate?
We start out with all the enthusiasm in the world before the first in a string of disappointments. Someone tells us we are crazy to think we could reach a go…
LISTS OF GOALS, LIKE CRASH DIETS, DON’T WORK.
How to embed new habits, optimise performance and re-wire your brain for profit and fun.
How to Hit the Target That You Want
As a leader, coach, manager or business owner, you would already know the importance of goal setting. Surround yourself with any successful person and they'l…
Goal-Setting Momentum
Several years ago, I was living a very different life than the one I do today. In fact, for 10 years of my life I was living what’s best described as well on…
The Business Coaching Goal That Changes Everything
As we move farther away from the malaise of Christmas and New Year, I am reminded about the futility of choosing a date that marks the end of one year and th…
Changing Directions
I grew up in the Grampians, in Halls Gap, a small town 300km west of Melbourne. With about 300 people, it is a real tourist destination with a national park…
Learning the Trade
One summer, a young coach from Townsville made the trip of a lifetime and went to study under the greats of US swimming at the time. Laurie Lawrence came back and became a legend himself.
WNBL Goals: How Basketball Coaches Drive Performance and Culture
I started playing basketball when I was seven for the Basin Wildcats in Knox, Victoria. Like most kids I played many sports but fell in love with basketball …
National Team with New Knees
Growing up, my family was heavily involved in the St Patricks hockey club in Canberra. My Dad played and my sister and cousins are still involved with the c…
Just another brain trainer?
NeuroTracker is a method for cognitive enhancement that was pioneered at the Visual Psychophysics and Perception Laboratory in Montreal. Professor Faubert, d…
Coaching is an Art based on a Science
I grew up in Colac, west of Geelong, and played junior football there in the seniors before I went down to Collingwood for three years. While there, I studie…
Cricket Goals: How Aiden Blizzard Coaches for the Long Game
I started my professional cricket career as a 19-year-old rookie with the Bushrangers in Victoria. Some of my greatest learnings and development as both a pl…
Identify a news angle
The messages I receive from small business owners usually start the same - “I’ve tried to contact a whole lot of newspapers giving them this great story, but…
Is Your Career in Focus? Coaching and Procrastination
As a career coach, my client’s needs differ, with common themes being career change, professional development coaching and also coaching to become experts in…
Cut Through the Noise: Marketing Your Coaching Online
As a coach with an internet connection, it’s impossible to miss the potential opportunity of utilising the web to expand your practice. And as a successful …
Personal Branding for Coaches: What Do People Say?
When you started your coaching business a small part of your brain was probably screaming at you from the sidelines.Your amygdala, or fear centre, was madly …
The Abundance Wheel: Where Should You Focus Your Energy?
Is it time for you to start getting your life on track? In over 5,000 hours of Professional Coaching and Mentoring I have discovered that one of the most sub…
Future Focus: 3 Tips to Make 2016 Your Best Year
As 2015 comes to a close and many of our clients start to wind down to a well-earned break, it’s time that we focus our energy into creating the business tha…
Approach Focus vs Avoidance Focus
In reading the last edition of Coaching Life, I was particularly struck by a comment in Stewart’s editorial piece. In talking about the challenge of upholdin…
Five Pillars to Build a Profitable Coaching Business
So you have become a coach. You even have a certificate that proves you are one… ta da! You know lots of neat stuff about your chosen field and you’re really…
What Does Your Board Focus On? Avoiding Corporate Drift
Director Di Percy reveals the most common traps that cause boards and leadership teams to lose strategic focus — and how coaches can help organisations stay on course.
15 Tips for Finishing Each Day Right and Staying Focused
Ever noticed how some people always seem to start each day fresh, energised and organised? Why is this so? Perhaps the way they finish off the day before is …
What Small Business Coaches Really Need to Focus On
With a background in marketing and a desire to narrow the focus of his business, Robert drew on the distinct commonalities of his favourite clients and secur…
Ironman Focus: How Endurance Athletes Train the Mind
From training with sharks to treatment by Chinese burn. After 20 years at the top, Ironman Legend, Wes Berg shares his story.
10 Ways to Focus your Coaching Environment
…creating a focused, efficient learning environment for mutual benefit, wellness, growth and community.
Lessons from Powerlifting Coaching
My personal journey; being involved in sport most of my life; has lead me to achieve many great things. I have learned life changing lessons along the way…
Using Kaizen to Beat the Gremlins
In my role as National Golf Coach for Golf Australia, as well as coaching club golfers and beginners on a daily basis, I am constantly challenged by the ques…
The Australian Cricket Pathway
Cricket Australia’s focus is to be AUSTRALIA’S FAVOURITE SPORT – A SPORT FOR ALL AUSTRALIANS! Over 1.2 million people a year play cricket in Australia and be…
Staying Focused
I grew up on a sugar cane farm near Mackay and was introduced to tennis when my Dad bulldozed a court in the dirt next to the house and put up a wooden pract…
3 Types of Mistakes
I recently caught up with Dr Richard (Ric) Charlesworth, a name known around the world for his excellence in coaching Hockey and considered one of the Austra…
Back to the Surf
I started walking, talking and surfing all at the same time. At 3 I was riding the waves off the ferry in Gunnamatta Bay. My father moved out from Manchester…
What Makes YOU Tick?
Whether you're new to the coaching profession or taking a fresh look, Tarran Deane poses five key questions every coach needs to answer to stay at the top of their game.
Club Coaching vs High Performance Coaching
Coaching at the club level is very different to being a high performance coach.
Three coaches to five Olympic Games
From a youngster in the country to five Olympic Games and the youngest Australian of the Year, Shane Kelly talks about the three coaches that influenced his cycling.
Coach Evaluation and the Team Model
“HALF the season gone, half the coaches gone; forget the Tasmanian devil - the A-League coach is Australia's most endangered species”
The knowledge trap
You have just landed yourself a bright, shiny new client. What next?
Clarify your passion
Identify Your Niche
The Benefits of a Coaching Methodology
I have produced many black belts but I continue to access new ideas provided by experts to assist me to bring out the best in my students.
Where Is Your Money Going?
There is never a perfect time to get started. If you wait for that elusive moment it will never happen – paralysis by analysis!
Coaching Through Vibration
As a vocal coach, I frequently train coaches from varying fields on how to effectively communicate to their clients, teams, management and athletes.
Coaching the Boss
And the Boss's Boss
Nudging the Dial of Human Consciousness: The Path Ahead for Coaching?
Socrates, sometimes described as one of the earliest coaches, declared that he could not teach anybody anything; he could only make them think.
The Authentic Business Coach: A Philosophical Reflection
Anyone can be a business or life coach nowadays as there are very few, if any, enforced regulatory guidelines to practice here in Australia.
What I know at 73
There are 12 key things I know at 73 that I wished I’d known at 30!
Starting a Coaching Service Inside an Organisation
An organisation is, in some ways, a collection of people who have adopted a certain mindset about how work happens and how business relationships need to occur.
Coaching Benefits
In most sporting environments, it is accepted and expected that if you want to be the best you can be, you will use a coach. Often that coach comes attached to the team or the club to which you belong.
Leadership Through COVID
I stood by the window, waiting for my first coaching client to arrive. I felt nervous, quite unsure of what to expect, but also mixed with a little excitement.
Life Coaching in a Pandemic
It happened so fast. One minute it seemed that I was gearing up for a year of speaking events (and going to great gigs!) And the next everything changed.
Relationship Coaching Through COVID
We are no longer observing the romantic interest that develops in a Hollywood blockbuster when boy meets girls during a global virus outbreak – we are living it.
Coaching in the COVID Era
Here is my detailed outline for a developing 25-year-old coach/trainer in today’s world. This is what I would do at 25 in order to develop as a world level coach with ambitions at the global level.
Executive Coaching Through COVID
We learn how to negotiate from a very early age. We ‘negotiate’ corners around a table when we’re first walking, working out how much latitude we have. We negotiate with our parents and siblings, trying to get what we want to meet our needs (with little or no regard to theirs in the early stages). W
Mental Strength Through COVID
The world changed irreparably in early 2020 when the coronavirus pandemic spread across our planet, and as the devastation raged through countries and continents like wildfire; the fear, distress, and panic set in and our lives were instantly and drastically altered.
Coaching Through COVID
Recently Bill Gates said that the one question he didn’t ask himself when he was with Microsoft, but one he asks himself now is “How are my business relationships? Are they growing and how am I nurturing them?” But even now, he still hasn’t got it right.
Coaching Through COVID
In 1989 the Berlin Wall came tumbling down and our World changed. Journalist Thomas Friedman said that the fall of the wall marked the end of the Cold War and changed our metaphors.
Walking the Walk: Why Successful Coaches Must Practice What They Preach
Credibility is the #1 currency of a successful coaching practice. After 25 years as a career coach, Grant Cooper shares the best practices that ensure a profitable and rewarding coaching business.
Take Your Mark, Set… How to Build a Sustainably Successful Coaching Career
If you're an experienced coach, how would you start your coaching career all over again? Wayne Goldsmith shares the unconventional path to building a career that lasts.
Healthy Coach, Better Coaching: Ten Tips for Sports Coaches to Stay Healthy and Happy
Coaches spend all their time helping athletes get better — but do they apply the same standards to their own health? Wayne Goldsmith's ten tips for coaches who want to thrive, not just survive.
Coaching Transcends the Field of Play
As Head Coach of the world champion Australian Diamonds, Lisa Alexander breaks down the five leadership principles that unite grassroots coaches and elite performers alike.