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

Find or create your own artifact from your past and you’ll see the role it will continue to play in shaping your coaching identity and strategy in the years to come. Reflecting on these stories and artifacts is a powerful way to improve your self-awareness as coach and act upon your unique strengths and motivations.

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

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

Transformational leaders connect on a very deep and personal level, and they are often more effective for it.

Meyer defined patience as not simply the ability to wait, but rather “how we behave while we’re waiting.” This quote is one of the best I’ve come across because it defines a word in a simple yet effective way, but also references

Thorough self-reflection isn’t only critical to becoming a better coach, but also a better person.

Other athletes train without a full understanding of the purpose of their program, which leads to confusion and a sub-standard effort compared to what is possible when an athlete and coach are fully aligned and working in harmony.

Our biological proclivity for competition and social comparison goes so far that researchers even have a name for the relative joy we feel when we see others whom we envy, are annoyed by, or perceive as rivals fail, perform poorly, or fall from grace: Schadenfreude. Think of Schadenfreude as a momentary lack of both compassion and empathy, and one

“Don’t just teach the lessons, tell the stories.” Information is most powerful when it is personal. This proverb speaks to the notion that HOW we communicate