Getting Started


Take Your Mark, Set… How to Build a Sustainably Successful Coaching Career
In This Edition

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?


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.


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.

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.

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.