Conscious Coaching: The Art and Science of Building Buy-In

It is maintained via mutually earned respect and our ability to communicate and consistently bridge the gap between the training science that we all know and love as coaches

coach from the “inside out” and influence the person inside of the athlete.

The roots of the “art of coaching” are found in the science of connecting with others and making the information that we share with them more meaningful. This is true whether we are meeting someone for the first time, coaching them during a training session, or consoling them in the midst of a hardship.

Overcoming adversity means that you’ve gotten to know yourself on another level through pushing, progressing, and persevering through what, in the moment, may have seemed like a very negative situation.

Buy-in is a coveted commodity for coaches, and true buy-in comes by first establishing relationships based upon trust and understanding.

Dale Carnegie taught us that relationship building starts through first demonstrating interest in others. If buy-in is critical to working with athletes to accomplish their goals, it follows then that relationships are critical to buy-in.

And in order to get athletes to move physically, we must first get people to move psychologically and emotionally. Recent technology may be advancing what we are able to measure and manage, but the best training programs are not driven by technological connection. They are driven by human connection. Put simply: there is no gadget that can inspire

in order to get athletes to move physically, we must first get people to move psychologically and emotionally.

Progression is the next natural step after we understand the roots of who we are (reflection) and who we want to become (inspection).