Traffic lights and coaching

Have you ever jumped the lights at a junction? Of course not, but if you’ve driven through an amber and it just turned red, I bet you knew you were doing something naughty and possibly wrong. Especially if the lights were really red even though you swore they were amber. In the same way, when coaching, we don’t drive through the red light, we only move forward on the green and move cautiously through amber. I’m referring to the body language of your coachee and their imaginary traffic lights above…

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Don’t double the talk

I was watching the half time review of a major football match the other day. You know when the cameras zoom back to the studio and you have the pundits and experts giving you their opinion of the match. Gary Lineker was doing his best to orchestrate the experts. Mark Lawrenson was chipping in with his words of wisdom about something, Alan Shearer had to give an angle on the same topic and of course, Alan Hansen needed to convince the viewers that he was an expert with his own…

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