Habits of Great Coaches

In 2020, Rod Harris and I sat down with Phil Plisky and Jenna Gourlay to talk about their masterclass, The 3 Unstoppable Ways To Get Your Ideal Career In Sports. 
The pearls of wisdom from this chat are so iridescent that if you're involved in sport, you can't afford not to listen. 

This special episode of Habits of Great Coaching is part of chat time with Scott Hopson at the end of a great masterclass he delivered in 2020 called Stress & Expression which you can find in here:
https://www.performancephysicaltherapies.com/courses/scott-hopson

We are here to create environments for transformation.  If we communicate with someone and nothing changes, have we communicated with them?  Learning doesn’t happen until behaviour changes. We should be asking:
Are they ready and willing to change? 
Have we created an environment where they can be transformed and change for the better? That we can see through the motion, the breathing, the outlook of our client. 

The conscious, compassionate and curious mindsets that we bring can be part of that transformational state. 

The energy we attract and create through our habitual thoughts, attitudes and beliefs but also how we respond to external events and people. 

So, what’s the global message we are sending to our clients?

At our health clubs, studios and gyms, we should create environments for transformational change that we can see through the motion, the breathing and the outlook of our clients. But why are most health clubs, studios and gyms not able to do that? And in a market where only 15% of people visit a health club, where 50% of those are gone in 12 months, and only 3% of the remaining 7.5% actually use a coach, we have a tough time to create transformation - it will be even tougher when we present an environment that doesn't support that. 

In episode 2 of the Habits of Great Coaches podcast, Greg and Lee explore Chapter 1 of their book, "Judged: You Changed Behaviour"

Iceberg phrase
You can’t get credit for what you did if you can’t prove that something changed as a result of what you did.

Beneath the waterline
Great coaches know that their mission and consistency of their remuneration depends on their ability to change behaviour to get results.

There is a difference between a mission and a job. Let’s explore the difference between a job and a mission. A job might be busy but not productive. A mission is productive, whether it is busy or not. Great coaches look for the mission in a job. They value productivity over busy-ness.

Opening and closing music, "Bad Cop Blues", by Martijn de Boer (NiGiD), 2021 - Licensed under Creative Commons,  Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) 
http://ccmixter.org/files/NiGiD/63668  

Join Greg and Lee in jumping onto icebergs of discovery into what great leaders and coaches do. 

"The only time a coach can work on something is when they make the world into a possible world, and they everything is possible. 50% of a battle is fought in possibility. If you think it is impossible, you’re right. It is, for you.

So, perhaps the impossible is just an unimagined possibility."

"The leader is one who has just opened up the path. Perhaps they’ve just seen it - “I know the way out, follow me!”

"It’s always better to take the lessons before the war is started rather than the lessons being presented to you by the enemy. The enemy has a vote in whatever decision you make in this and learning and making your organisation better prepared to deal with whatever it is you work in is actually being able to learn about how you’re going to compete and not be a in a rock-minded staid mentality."

"The cock-ups are the darkness people turn from, but if you shine a light on the darkness it goes away. And the lessons that you learn from failure relates to managing your minimums but to manage your minimums you need to know what they are, what your shortfalls are because the way links cause the whole chain to break. What are you failing at that you continue to fail at that you aren’t learning from?The great coaches are humble first. They figure out what they don’t know about a circumstance. That if they fail to understand it, will be the reason in X period of days then I’ll be trouble."