THE GREAT COACHES

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We believe that sport provides a unique learning environment for both leadership and life.

We explore the complex topic of leadership through the lens of high performance sport, interviewing Great Coaches from across the world and hearing about the experiences, challenges and victories that have shaped their careers.

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Special price of $4.50 USD (was $59 USD).

Access our database of 32 lessons and 32 bundles insights as well as over 1,200 leadership insights from coaches by joining up as a member.

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Great Coaches Lessons

Your $4.50 USD annual membership includes access to 32 Lessons , like this one on adversity.

These lessons include audio, video and a transcipt of Great Coaches talking in the subject, in this case On Adversity.

Lesson Transcipt (PDF)
Lesson Audio
Lesson Video - Tom Ryan
Lesson Video - Gordon Tietjens
Sample Lesson on Adversity

Great Coaches Bundled Insights

Your $4.50 USD annual membership includes acess to 32 Bundled Insights, like this one on Resilience.

These bundles insights are short videos of selected great coaches speaking on the subject. In the case of the Bundled Insight on Resiliance we have 10 Great Coaches sharing their view on Resilience.

Briony Akle – Resilience Video
Sandy Brondello – Resilience Video
Mike Candrea - Resilience Video
Mike Dunlap – Resilience Video

And 6 other Great Coaches discussing resilience.

Sample lesson on resiliernce

Great Coaches Bundled Detailed Insights

Your $4.50 USD annual membership includes acess to over 1,200 Indifvidual Insights from Great Coaches and various topics.

These individual insights are video snippets of Great Coaches talking on a subject insights are short videos of selected great coaches speaking on the subject.

Bob Bowman - Swmiming
Authenticity

Mercedas Taaffe-Cooper - Boxing
Resilience

Graham Reid - Field Hockey
Self-Reflection

Justin Langer - Cricket
Care

Alana Thoms - Rugby Union
Improving

James Wade - Style
Basketball

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Advice
Advice
The Great Coaches talk about advice they would give to their younger selves as well as advice they have been given from other key people in their life; and the....
Behaviours
Behaviours
The Great Coaches reflect on the behaviours that define their teams and how they go about creating and maintaining standards. These insights will help you define the behaviours that you....
Care
The Great coaches share their thoughts on the importance of Care. They explain how it helps unlock potential so that people are able to become the best versions of themselves.....
Character
Character
The Great Coaches discuss character and how it underpins success as an individual. They give examples of character traits and how they are visible in behaviours. These insights will help....
Coaching Philosophy
Coaching Philosophy
The Great Coaches discuss their coaching philosophy and how they use it to guide their actions and the pillars of their programmes. These insights will help you develop a leadership....
Commitment
Commitment
The Great Coaches talk about commitment and how it helps fuel performance. These insights will help you improve the level of commitment in your own teams. Key Terms • Commitment....
Communication
The Great Coaches discuss communication and the methods they use to engage with their teams. They cover areas like body language, voice and how they encourage people to challenge them.....
Conflict
Conflict
The Great Coaches discuss conflict and how they mine for and deal with it. They outline how destructive it can be too high-performance and what can be done to mitigate....
Culture
The Great Coaches talk about team culture, they describe it as the environment that surrounds the team and share stories on how they have developed it to a stronger level.....
Decision Making
The Great Coaches discuss decision making and the routines they use to approach it. These insights will help you improve the way both you and your teams make decisions and....
Diversity and Inclusion
The Great Coaches discuss diversity and inclusion and how they bring a focus on this into their teams and organisations. These insights will help you empower your team and broaden....
Emotional Control
The Great Coaches discuss emotional control and the impact it can have on their own and the team’s performance. These insights will help you gain more control of your emotions....
Evaluating and Selecting People
Evaluate and Selecting People
The Great coaches talk about the methods they use to evaluate and select people. These insights will help you refine the criteria you use when selecting or hiring people for....
Feedback
The Great Coaches discuss the art of giving and revieing feedback. These insights will help you give better feedback through being more deliberate about the timing, environment, frequency, and words....
Inner Voice
Inner Voice
The Great Coaches talk about what they have learned in helping people with their inner voice. They discuss how they have helped people move from self-doubt and anxiety through to....
Innovation
Innovation
The Great Coaches discuss innovation and why it is so critical to team evolution. These insights will challenge you to think differently about how you innovate across the team’s culture....
Leadership
Leadership
The Great Coaches discuss leadership and how they experience and define it. These insights will help you define the leadership style that you aspire to.  Key Terms Captains Groups Positive....
Learning and Development
The Great Coaches discuss the importance of learning and development and how they apply it to improve performance. They cover areas such as failure, teaching and the routines they use....
Legacy
The Great Coaches discuss the legacy they hope to leave with the people they have interacted with. They talk about goals such as leaving things in a better shape than....
Life Balance
The Great Coaches discuss life-balance and how they endeavour to achieve it. They explain the routines they use and the challenges they face in implementing them. These insights will challenge....
Mental Skills
The Great Coaches talk about mental skills and how they impact performance. They discuss about mindset and how they work with it to shape the mental outlook of their teams....
Mentors
The Great Coaches talk about the role of mentors or as they often call them, critical friends, and how this helps them maintain balance and perspective. These insights will challenge....
Motivation
The Great Coaches talk about motivation and how their athletes and teams generate and maintain it.   These insights will help you find ways to generate motivation in your own....
Purpose and Goals
Purpose and Goals
The Great Coaches talk about working with an individual or teams purpose in order to unlock improved performance. These insights will help you find ways to unite the team and....
Resilience
Resilience
The Great Coaches discuss pressure and resilience and give practical examples of helping their athletes develop skills in these areas.   These insights will help you find tasks and ideas....
Self-awareness
Self Awareness
The Great Coaches talk about self-awareness and how it is the key to improved performance as a coach. They discuss the routines they use to reflect, learn and then move....
Skill Development
Skill Devlopment
The Great Coaches discuss skill development and training techniques. They cover topics like work ethic, habits and the powerful impact of a focus on marginal gains.   These insights will....
Starting in New Teams
The Great Coaches reflect on their lessons on starting with new teams and organisations.   These insights will help you prioritise the key tasks when starting with a new team.....
Teams
Teams
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The role of the Coach
The Role of the Coach
The Great Coaches describe their role and how it covers a broad array of tasks from personnel management through to creating strategy and teaching skills. These insights will help you....
Values
Values
The Great Coaches talk about the values that shape their approach to leadership.   These insights will challenge to you to reflect on your own values and how they align....
Vision
The Great Coaches talk about setting a vision for the team and how they go about aligning people to this view of the future. These insights will help you create....