Category: Coaching Lessons

  • How to treat an Outlier student – Dr Tim Elmore, Growing Leaders

    What are we missing?  That’s the main question that comes to mind when I read this article this morning. Dr. Elmore touches on the various keys facts, that when dealing with young individuals, athletes, students we should be considering.  In my world of sport and dealing with student-athletes I can’t help but wondering about the…

  • What are we offering?

    I remember hearing this said before by a coach that I respect in international sport, a friend who I have seen grow a small rowing programme to one that has now won international medals and has qualified 4 SA boats for the Rio Olympics, with 1 still hopefully to come.    As coaches what are…

  • Character – Coach what does yours look like?

    Our character as a coach is key to performance, and there I don’t refer to just winning. Performance gains, improvements and challenging our athletes across all levels of the development pipeline.  So what does our character look like? What do we look like in the good and the bad? Are we the same yesterday, today…