Performance Coaching

Now in a new, expanded, and fully revised third edition, this best-selling audio handbook will help you learn the skills ¿ and the art ¿ of good coaching, and realise its enormous value in unlocking people's potential to maximize their own performance. This edition includes additional chapters on incorporating meaning and purpose into work and goal-setting, a spiritual approach to coaching, and a final section on "Coaching the Organisations' Culture".

If you want to be faster, stronger, and less prone to injury, it’s critical you understand how important the body’s fascia system is to athletic performance. Modern research and imaging technologies are showing us that it’s far more significant than we have long understood. That’s why Bill Parisi—founder of the Parisi Speed School—and extreme sports writer, Johnathon Allen, set out on a nationwide quest to interview the top experts in the field so they could present this new performance science in a paradigm shifting book that’s not only packed with practical information, but ...

Writing from both the cutting edge of scientific discovery and the front-lines of elite athletic performance, National Magazine Award-winning science journalist Alex Hutchinson presents a revolutionary account of the dynamic and controversial new science of endurance.

Good coaching is a skill that requires a depth of understanding and plenty of practice if it is to deliver its astonishing potential. This extensively revised and expanded new audio edition of Coaching for Performance clearly explains the principles of coaching and illustrates them with examples of high performance from business and sport. It continues to follow the GROW sequence (Goals, Reality, Options, Will) and clarifies the process and practice of coaching.

Winning at Sport explains how you can rapidly improve your sports performance, whatever your level, by training and competing more effectively. You'll no longer waste time practising things that have little or no effect; instead, you'll replace them with methods that science has shown to work. This book will correct the damaging errors you probably make when you practise and compete. You'll learn what you're doing wrong and how you can fix it. You'll improve in two ways. First, you'll reach the highest performance level you're capable of - what your talent allows. Second, you'll learn to ...

The Unstoppable Athlete (Parent Edition) Competition anxiety and overthinking putting a wrench in your athlete’s chase after victory? Learn ways to help them overcome mental hurdles and embrace true potential. Struggling to find a training plan that doesn’t leave a young competitor impatient? Certain they could make it into the record books if they could just discover their edge? Wishing for a peek inside the minds of greats like LeBron James, Simone Biles, and Lionel Messi? After working with over 5,000 athletes, coach and author Andrew J Simpson has identified exactly what makes a ...

In Measure What Matters, Doerr shares a broad range of first-person, behind-the-scenes case studies, with narrators including Bono and Bill Gates, to demonstrate the focus, agility, and explosive growth that the Objectives and Key Results system has spurred at so many great organizations. This book will help a new generation of leaders capture the same magic.

Crushing Quota teaches you how to develop the best coaching approach for your teams and their individual sellers using powerful research-based best practices. This is the definitive guide to making sales coaching work for any sales team in any industry.

Next Level Sales Coaching offers insights to sales executives, customer-service managers, business owners, and other professional managers on strategies to overcome common challenges in building a "best in class" sales team. Sales performance can impact a company's revenue, profits, market share, and employee retention. The question is, how do you positively impact those goals? The answer is simple: Sales improve when your team is better trained, coached, and supported.

What separates good teams from great ones? Jess Pryce delivers a powerful guide packed with actionable insights to help leaders unlock their team’s full potential and create lasting success. This book is a comprehensive toolkit for leaders determined to move beyond mediocrity and build teams that thrive in today’s dynamic business environment.

Tom Sotis is this generation's most prolific instructor of knife fighting. Having taught over 1200 seminars in twenty-five countries, Tom has earned worldwide acclaim for his unique theories and coaching methods. The Way of Tactics is presented in three parts. “Life Lessons” is intended to entertain readers while offering valuable personal insights from the training and experiences of one of the world's most lethal men. A “Manifesto of Invincibility”, presented through the prism of knife fighting, has useful applications for warriors, executives, and athletes. It presents a ...

The Proven Playbook for Building Championship Teams and Cultures Looking for the secret to what makes a team that wins? Award-winning author and championship coach Lee M.J. Elias has the proven blueprint. In How to Win: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating a Championship Culture for Your Team, Lee expands on his acclaimed 2017 release with fresh insights, updated strategies, and practical tools. This new edition delivers more than just theory—it’s a hands-on guide filled with real-world examples, leadership lessons, and a winning mentality that any team in any sport can adopt. Whether ...

In The Power of One More, renowned keynote speaker and performance expert Ed Mylett draws on thirty years of experience as an entrepreneur and coach to top athletes, entertainers, and business executives to reveal powerful strategies to help you live an extraordinary "one more" life.

IMPROVE YOUR GOLF SWING SKILL A shortened, refocused, version of The Golf Swing: it’s easier than you think (2012) Did you know that the traditional approach to coaching a golf swing is based on the wrong science? This practice guide, based on the principles of motor skill science (the swing, after all, is a skill!), shows how you can improve your swing using just a few simple images. If you want to stop struggling with endless mechanical swing rules, and instead harness the power of your innate skill-learning systems, this book shows you how. Here’s what you’ll learn: Why trying to ...

Most coaching conversations fail—not because leaders don’t care, but because they don’t know how to dig deep, uncover the real problem, and secure real commitment. The Coaching Conversation Playbook gives you a step-by-step framework to turn vague feedback into transformational coaching moments. Inside, you’ll learn: ✔️ How to stop giving surface-level feedback and ask powerful questions that reveal hidden challenges. ✔️ The 5 Whys Technique for diagnosing the real issue behind underperformance. ✔️ Why most employees say "Yes" but don’t change—and how to get real buy...

Discover the power of Sports Psychology and Hypnosis with "Sports Psychology and Hypnosis for the Modern Athlete, Performer, and Coach: How to Get the Inside Advantage to Ultimate Peak Performance". Using cutting-edge Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) techniques, this book is your ultimate guide to unlocking your full potential as an athlete, performer, or coach. Through the expert insights of experienced sports psychologists and hypnotherapists, you'll learn how to overcome mental blocks, increase your motivation, and develop an unshakeable confidence that will take your performance to ...

I was hooked from the start. A terrific read of the can't-put-it-down variety! - Andy Clayton, Daily News A modern day Hoosiers where reality trumps what even the most talented writer could dream up. - Andrés Alvarez, Box Score Geeks Pressure plays, buzzer-beaters, and mindfulness meditation: A team of teenagers goes for the championship in Namibia’s professional basketball league. Ben Guest takes a high school coaching gig on the other side of the world. On the first day of practice one of the ten players can’t complete a simple defensive slide. Follow their journey over two seasons ...

Achieving success and happiness in life is a common aspiration for many of us. Yet, we often struggle to identify the habits and behaviors necessary to achieve our goals. In this book, we'll explore 10 essential habits that successful and wealthy people practice daily to achieve their goals and live fulfilling lives. This is exactly what I did to start changing my thoughts around money and to start showing up as the version of someone who would achieve the results I desired. Each chapter will focus on one habit and provide practical tips and insights for incorporating it into your life. ...

Unlock the 7 Habits That Set Elite Leaders Apart — And Make Them Unstoppable What do the world’s most respected leaders have in common? It’s not just talent, strategy, or charisma—it’s habit. In 7 Habits of Highly Successful Leaders, you’ll discover the proven principles that drive consistent influence, trust, and breakthrough results. This isn’t a book of fluffy motivation. It’s your leadership field manual—packed with practical habits, powerful mindset shifts, and real-world case studies that will challenge, stretch, and elevate your leadership capacity. In this ...

Teams Unleashed provides a map and compass for engaged, sustainable, and improved team performance. This practical approach uses the everyday language of teams to highlight what's working, and uncover what's not, and gives teams the tools to incorporate new practices that build team effectiveness. This is an approach proven in the real world of teams since 2005 and used by thousands of teams worldwide.