Coaching Psychology

Here's how you can weather the storm and start thinking clearly! Let's see the facts. Your mind is under siege. Every single day, you are bombarded with thousands of news stories, hundreds of fake news articles, secret agendas, and bad science. You need to develop a defense mechanism that will allow you to hold your ground and improve your life. And the name of that defense mechanism? Critical thinking! This is a simple, easy-to-follow, critical thinking science guide that will change the way you perceive your world and react to it.

Understand trauma and discover its effects on the brain and body, develop a personalized recovery plan to overcome stress and anxiety, and find long-lasting healing. Recognized by Oprah Winfrey as a "spiritual thinker for the next generation," Mastin Kipp guides you through a plan for working through trauma. You'll come away with a clear understanding of trauma in your own life and others', and how to apply the best practices and information to fully heal and thrive.

Mindfulness, cognitive flexibility, and overall mental game are often overlooked when it comes to youth coaching for any sport. However, these areas are vital to truly unlocking any young person’s potential in the sporting arena. They say you need to “get your head in the game” - and no truer words have ever been spoken.

What’s the number one thing stopping you from playing your best tennis? Ian Westermann, founder of the world’s #1 online tennis instruction portal, Essentialtennis.com, will confidently say it’s an obstacle you probably never thought of: The ball. The whole point of tennis is to hit the ball over the net and in, so how can the ball be the thing that’s standing in the way? In fact, this is why the ball is such an impediment: your desire to hit a good shot, with the right mix of power and spin, to a specific spot on the court, prevents you from striking the ball the way you should.

Accessible and practical, the book draws on research from coaching, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, social psychology, and industrial-organizational psychology to provide the best science-based practices that can be applied in work and life. It presents core coaching skills that anyone can develop and use to improve their own emotions, thoughts, behaviors, and interactions with others. It uses levels of analysis to help listeners think about key concepts first in relation to themselves, and then in 1:1 interactions, group and team dynamics, organizational-level impact, and beyond.

Building on the core concepts introduced in Every Shot Must Have a Purpose and the strategic thinking in The Game Within the Game, Play Your Best Golf Now takes the mystery out of the soft skills of golf and shows golfers how to add these skills to their game for peak performance.

Everyone has issues. Erase your pain, whatever it is. Inside you is the power to heal yourself. The authors have done it as have countless others around the globe; YOU CAN TOO! Discover personal stories of overcoming trauma and pain; learn 23 tools for healing your own broken heart and traumas, small or large. Maybe you have tried other ways but are disappointed in the results. This system of stories, tools and Coaches and Mentors on call, will help you feel hopeful about change.

Journalist and bestselling author Michael Lewis’ podcast Against the Rules is dedicated to examining what's happened to fairness. It feels like there's less of it every day, and one of the “haves” of those who are better off includes access to coaching. But does having a coach help or hinder us?

The simple, untold truth about anxiety and depression is that they are habits of insecurity - and like all habits, they can be broken. In this new edition of the highly successful Self-Coaching, Dr. Joseph Luciani presents his proven approach that has worked wonders for his patients as well as listeners from around the world. Whether you struggle with worrisome thoughts, panic, depression, or compulsions, Self-Coaching shows you how to stop feeding these habits.

As coaches and sport leaders what can we do to ensure that we maximize the potential of our athletes and teams so they are successful and continue to enjoy sport? How do we ensure that we coach in a way that benefits the team and remains respectful of the individual? In their first book together, André Lachance and Jean François Ménard offer tangible and practical strategies to help sport leaders create efficient group dynamics, build team culture, and help a group of athletes to gel.

The Playmaker on any team makes the right decision at the right time, almost every time. Despite the constraints of time, tactics, and rules, the best players combine their vision and skills with razor-sharp decision accuracy for an unstoppable competitive advantage. As a follow-up to The Playmaker’s Advantage, their best-selling guide for athletes, coaches, and parents, Daniel Peterson and Dr. Leonard Zaichkowsky now focus on the split-second decision-making process that produces both clutch plays and mental mistakes.

Coaches search for it. Parents dream of it. Fans love it. Athletes want it. The Playmaker on any sports team possesses it: an elusive, intangible quality combining anticipation, perception, and decision-making skills. This quality raises their game above the competition and allows them to pass when no one else can, anticipate the movement of opponents, and avoid costly mental mistakes, thus holding the team together. Using today's technology and tools, it is now possible to understand, assess, and train this sixth sense rather than just hope it magically appears.

Our work lives revolve around effective communication. It is essential for cultivating trust and team collaboration, as well as strengthening our motivation and wellbeing at work. And with teams experiencing more anxiety, stress, and burnout than ever before, strong communication skills have never been more essential. The key to this clear and effective communication begins with understanding our own personal communication styles.

Positive organizational psychology, with its focus on the identification and development of strengths, is a natural ally to executive development and leadership coaching. However, this approach is only just beginning to come to the attention of organizations and consequently, the research base for strength-based coaching is in its early stages of development. Strength-Based Leadership Coaching in Organizations reviews strength-based approaches to positive leadership development and evaluates the evidence for their effectiveness, critically assesses their apparent distinctiveness and more.

From integrative therapist Abby Rawlinson (@therapywithabby) comes a real-world companion to improving your mental health. Looking at the most common ways we self-sabotage both at home and at work, Abby guides us on a journey to reconnect with what we need and want, showing us how to break unhealthy and unhelpful behaviour patterns. With a specialist focus on how our minds and bodies are interconnected, Abby demonstrates how looking at our whole selves is key to making a lasting positive change.

This is the first guide to motivational interviewing (MI)—the proven approach to harnessing the power of conversations to build relationships and trust—for coaches, sport psychologists, training and rehabilitation specialists, and other affiliated staff. Revealing why conventional ways of giving feedback and addressing conflict are often counterproductive, this audiobook presents tried-and-tested methods for getting through to athletes and helping them to thrive.

Discover a new and more effective method of experiencing peace and tranquility in your life. Be the driver of your fate with the steps and guidelines explained in this book and change your life exponentially. What is stoicism? Can I really be happier by not feeling or getting less emotionally involved? Stoicism involves acquiring self-control and fortitude development as a means of combating destructive emotions.

For everyone seeking mental and physical harmony - whether in golf, tennis, martial arts, music, or everyday life - best selling author and world champion athlete Dan Millman shows in this revised and updated audio edition of his classic The Inner Athlete how to transform training into a path of personal growth and spiritual discovery.

It's you. As the speed of change in elite sports has increased, the support infrastructure around head coaches has not kept up. This has left many coaches—supposedly experts in human performance—walking zombies who don’t sleep, don’t exercise, and don’t see their families. To succeed in the modern sporting world, head coaches must face some hard truths. By grappling with these truths, which cut to the very core of who they are as human beings, head coaches can get out of their own way and achieve all-new levels of personal performance.

We hear words like peak productivity all the time. In today’s world, it’s all about doing the best and most you can in the hours you have. You are given examples of people like Elon Musk and Warren Buffet, but even as those names are mentioned, your mind drifts off. Those personalities are super humans; you can’t ever reach their potential. Right?