Coaching Energy – How To Feeling Energized In Your Coaching If you’ve ever coached you will “get” the concept of “Coaching Energy”. Coaching Energy is the combination of energy in training and practice sessions that comes from: The Coach; The A

The Real Role Of Sporting Parents - Being The Sporting Parents Your Kids Really Need You To Be.

Nov 22nd, 2021 27m 38s

The Real Role Of Sporting Parents – Being The Sporting Parents Your Kids Really Need You To Be. Having delivered hundreds of sporting parents seminars all over the world, I am often asked, “What is the real role of sporting parents? Is it to me

Athlete Empowerment Under The Microscope - Myths And Misunderstandings Of Coaching Empowerment.

Nov 8th, 2021 25m 45s

Athlete Empowerment Under The Microscope – Myths And Misunderstandings Of Coaching Empowerment. The world of sports coaching – like most areas of human endeavour – is full of trends, fads, jargon, gizmos and gimmicks. Every so often there’s ano

Choosing Your Coaching Path - Trends In Coaching

Oct 25th, 2021 24m 8s

Choosing Your Coaching Path – Trends in Coaching The world is changing. People are looking for more from their lives, their workplaces, their “faith” – whatever that faith maybe – and of course – they’re looking for more from their experience o

Ways That You Can Incorporate Whole Coaching Into Your Program

Oct 11th, 2021 19m 43s

Whole Coaching Practice. Let’s discuss the real importance of Whole Coaching and investigate some of the ways that you can incorporate the concept of Whole Coaching into your program. This is part two of my special short series on Whole Coachin

Whole Coaching - Coaching the Person, their Potential and their Performance.

Oct 5th, 2021 21m 27s

Whole coaching simply means coaching the whole athlete having an holistic, broad, whole of life, whole of family, whole of environment, approach to the way we connect with, engage and inspire the hearts and minds of athletes. It asks some core

There Is An "I" In Team - Coaching Individual Athletes In A Team Environment

Sep 27th, 2021 24m 4s

One of the most common sayings in sport is: “There’s no I in team”. The saying is supposed to convey the belief that the strength of any team is the team itself – i.e. unity, people working together, selflessness etc. On a certain level that’s

The Sports Industry - How Sport Works, and Doesn't Work, Around The World.

Sep 13th, 2021 22m 37s

The Sports Industry around the world follows some very predictable and very common policies, patterns and practices. If you spend a moment or two thinking about these policies, patterns and practices, you’ll be able to understand why sporting o

Eight Essential Coaching Skills

Dec 30th, 2020 28m 8s

Eight Essential Coaching Skills for Every Coach Coaching is a lifelong commitment to learning, to growing and to inspiring change in other people. It is both an art and a science. It is the art of inspiring change through emotional connection.

Five Questions To Ask Yourself

Dec 16th, 2020 33m 21s

Five Questions To Ask Yourself – Towards a Coaching Philosophy Coaches ask a lot of questions. Coaches are always looking for answers. Perhaps the most important questions a coach can ask are those which are directed inwards – those which will

A Lifetime Of Lessons

Dec 2nd, 2020 34m 10s

A Lifetime of Lessons – 30 years of Successes, Failures and Learning. I’ve been involved in the sports industry for over half of my life. It’s been 30 years of successes, failures and learning and even though at times the frustrations have over

Start Up Sports

Nov 18th, 2020 23m 52s

Startup Sports – Starting Again – and Getting it Right the Second Time Around the world, many sporting organizations are experiencing significant declines in participation. Rugby in New Zealand. Swimming in Australia. Football in England. Even

Continuous Improvement

Nov 4th, 2020 25m 57s

Continuous Improvement – Living a Learning Life. Every day – aim to get just a little better. Find one thing – just one thing – and strive to learn how to improve it at every coaching session. Continuous improvement is the very essence of life:

Five Qualities Of Greatness

Oct 21st, 2020 27m 8s

Greatness is something most people involved in high performance sport aspire to: the ambition to achieve something remarkable and to become something more than they are. However, greatness does not work like that. You become great by thinking,

Reviewing Performance

Oct 7th, 2020 26m 50s

One of the most common requests I receive is to conduct end of season Performance Reviews. A Performance Review is ostensibly very simple and straight forward. You interview the coaches. You interview the players. You interview the staff and ma

Reviewing Performance

Oct 7th, 2020 26m 50s

Periodization

Sep 23rd, 2020 23m 9s

What if I told you everything you thought you knew about Periodization was wrong? What if your unbreakable beliefs in one-week Microcycles, four-week Macrocycles and three month long training Phases as the cornerstones of planning training prog

Creativity And Innovation In Coaching

Sep 16th, 2020 23m 6s

Creativity And Innovation In Coaching By Wayne Goldsmith Ideas are easy to find. Information is everywhere. Anyone, can get anything, anytime, anywhere and usually for free. You have access to more ideas and information than any coach in your s

The Future Of Sports Science

Sep 2nd, 2020 25m 8s

There is no doubt that sports science has made a significant contribution to the development of sport around the world at every level. However, as it is with every industry and in every walk of life, there’s a need for sports science to be comm

Using your Coaching Skills In Life

Aug 19th, 2020 23m 6s

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 traini

Coaching And COVID-19

Aug 10th, 2020 20m 15s

Coaching and Covid19. By Wayne Goldsmith Coaching is the art of inspiring change through emotional connection….read that last word again…CONNECTION. Covid19 has presented coaches with many difficult and seemingly overwhelming challenges none th

Creating Successful Cultures

Jul 8th, 2020 22m 50s

Over the past 25 years I’ve been asked to work with sporting organizations all over the world and help them build and grow a successful sporting culture. And no matter how many times I do it, I am stunned at the lack of understanding of what a

Creating Successful Cultures

Jul 8th, 2020 22m 50s

Holistic Coaching

Jun 24th, 2020 27m 51s

Holistic Coaching – Coaching the Whole Athlete. For the most part, coaching is focused almost exclusively on the physiological development of athletes. It’s easy for coaches to be centered on the physiological aspects of athlete development as

Sporting Parents

Jun 10th, 2020 26m 9s

Sporting Parents. Sporting parents are the key to sporting success. They teach values. They help to build and grow virtues. They foster and nurture character. Sporting parents teach important life lessons: lessons about responsibility, about ac