Launch Edition – Coaching Life

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JULY 13: David Parkin is seen during the AFL Coaches Association Men’s Health Week initiative launch in support of prostate cancer awareness at AFL House, Melbourne, Australia on July 13 2015. (Photo: Adam Trafford/AFL Media)

What I know at 73

After 73 years of walking planet Earth, David Parkin knows a thing or two about stuff. But don’t let his age deter you from reading further. Yes, we’ve all been bailed up by our parents and/or grandparents who generally have...

Coaching Transcends Beyond the Field of Play

Regardless of whether you’re a High Performance, amateur or grassroots coach, we all share the same responsibilities. As Head Coach of the recently crowned world champion Australian Diamonds, my job as a leader requires many of the same skills and...

Three Coaches

From a youngster in the country to five Olympic Games and the youngest Australian of the Year, Shane Kelly talks about the three coaches that influenced his cycling. With such an amazing career, he now passes on his key lessons...

Elite Coaching

Back in Grade 11 at high school, I was a swimmer at the Indooroopilly Swimming Club and my father was the coach. We would train in the morning, then head straight to school. After school, it was straight back to...

The Benefits of a Coaching Methodology

Karate, as it exists today, has been around since the late 1800s and there are many different styles. These may have some techniques performed differently, such as the positioning of the hand, low to the hip in Shotokan or high...

What People expect from a new coach

In most sporting environments, it is accepted and expected that if you want to be the best you can be, you will use a coach. Often that coach comes attached to the team or the club to which you belong....

Starting a Coaching Service Inside an Organisation

During my first experience of coaching, I became acutely aware that my thoughts about my particular situation were fundamentally transformed as a result of the questions my coach asked me. It was as though she had changed my brain and...

The Authentic Business Coach: A Philosophical Reflection

Have you ever talked yourself up to a potential client in order to get business? Have you ever had a client ask about your successes in business? When the client asked about your successes, did you say, “Ya’know, I can...

Nudging the Dial of Human Consciousness: The Path Ahead for Coaching?

An article about a GP/poet/writer who has recently won a prestigious book award caught my eye this morning. Dr Glenn Colquhoun commented that he had “fallen in love with medicine late in life and it's all the sweeter for it”....

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