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The Subject of Coaching - From a Master Coach and past owner of over 20 coaching centers
Author: Alan C Walter
Alan C. Walter is recognised in "21st Century Leadership" as one of the 100 Top leaders in America today. He has coached and advised Oscar winners, Olympic Gold Medallists, Wimbledon Champions, Billionaires, and Multi- National Corporate Leaders. Alan is president of the Advanced Coaching and Leadership Center, a training center for professional coaches.
Definitions:
COACH: n. 1. A person or private tutor who trains athletes, athletic teams, leaders, executives, individuals, or students to increase knowledge, skills, abilities, awareness, integrity, relationships, craftsmanship, and mastery in order to excel and win at the chosen games of life.
WINNING: adj. 1. The action of achieving victory over others in a competition. 2. Achieving success in an effort or venture. 3. Struggling through to a desired place or level of existence. 4. The action of one who masters a subject, place, time or person.
THE SEQUENCE OF WINNING: The action of perceiving what is wanted, intending to produce what is wanted, envisioning what is wanted, planning how to attain what is wanted, implementing the actions necessary to produce what is wanted and achieving the intended result of what is wanted at the quality, quantity and viability expected.
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THE BASIC INTENT OF COACHING
The basic intent of coaching is to produce a champion. This is done by gradients of wins, each win bigger than the previous one, as the student progresses.
The lowest skills level may be at just arriving or switching on a machine or tying one's shoelaces. At the mastery level it may be winning an Olympic gold medal, winning a Super Bowl or receiving a Nobel Prize.
Coaches coach to make champions. Champions are masters of their games. The Super Bowl champions are a team of champions, each playing his role as close to mastery as possible.
A superb coach knows the formula for Masterpieces which is to break each part of a skill down to its individual fundamental pieces and to drill and perceive each piece until it is fully mastered. This is known in coaching as the fundamentals. A professional coach expects all of his players to have mastered the fundamentals.
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FUNDAMENTAL: adj. 1. Having to do with the foundation; elemental; basic; central; key. 2. Having to do with the origin.
Mastering the fundamentals of life is the pathway to certainty, success, prosperity and happiness. The major reason for any FAILURE IN LIFE, BUSINESS, RELATIONSHIPS OR ANY OF LIFE'S GAMES IS THE FAILURE TO MASTER THE FUNDAMENTALS OF LIFE.
The master coach knows his fundamentals, he is a superb craftsman of and at his game, and further, he knows how to rehabilitate or correct missing or weak fundamentals.
We have isolated as many fundamentals of life as is possible and devised exercises and drills to bring a student to mastery on a specific fundamental. This is done over and over again on each piece while gradiently getting tougher and achieving more and more skill and certainty of knowledge. Each fundamental is practiced until all the mastered pieces fit together and become whole. This then becomes integrity; a mastered wholeness of the subject.
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THE BASIC PERCEPTION OF COACHING
There are two abilities all coaches must have. These are:
1. THE ABILITY TO PERCEIVE WHAT THE STUDENT CAN DO.
2. THE ABILITY TO HELP HIM DO IT BETTER AT THE RIGHT GRADIENT.
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PERCEIVING WHAT THE STUDENT CAN DO
One does not have to get fancy at putting in fundamentals.
Let us say you have a student who is terrified of public speaking. You don't just stick him in front of a group and say "Start speaking". This is too steep a gradient. Your first step would be having him do "Bravery Drill 1 - Increasing Personal Presence". You probably will find that the student has trouble being present in front of one person, and the idea of being present in front of a group is totally overwhelming.
If this is the case, you gently do the presence exercise until the student is comfortable and is winning.
You then continue to the next exercise and so on, each time increasing the gradient. It may take two to three hours or it might take 1000 hours. It takes as long as it takes. If you fail to do this, you will have a person who is always nervous or worried and under stress when faced with handling people.
All master coaches know that the most basic fundamental in all of life is PRESENCE and that the first thing to check on anyone, at anytime, is his PRESENCE. If this is out then everything else will be out.
The other basics the master coach knows are the four fundamental paradigms and the Zones status.
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THE FOUR PARADIGMS
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1. THE HUMAN BEING PARADIGM.
Empowerer
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Dream
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Vision ----------------- Mind
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Outcomes ------------ Body
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Actuality of the Completed Dream
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2. THE ABILITY PARADIGM.
Perceiver
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Intend
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Envision ----------- Plan
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Result ---------- Implement
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Attainment of the Perceived Need or Want
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3. THE ETHICS PARADIGM.
Knowledge
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Winning Precepts
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Greatest Goodness ------ Certainty of Sequences
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Green Zone --------------- Effectiveness
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Happiness
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4. THE LEARNING PARADIGM.
Duplication by Permeation
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Intention
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Concept ---------------- Familiarity
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Comprehension -------- Contact
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Application
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The master coach is totally familiar with these four fundamental paradigms, the Green Zone, Yellow Zone, and Red Zone, and their effects on the student's capabilities.
The master coach has total certainty in the student's strength, intelligence, power, and potential.
The master coach is an expert at validating the student's strengths. When a student has a win he does not let the student go by any regained abilities or wins. He lets the student have the win.
The master coach is an invaluable teammate. A team of master coaches will win over any obstacles. The coach is basically responsible for the team's results. Great coaches mean great people, great parents, great friends, great salesmen, great processors, great supervisors, great executives, great leaders and a great team.
The quality and craftsmanship of coaching is a major factor in your success or failure. Great coaching makes for a great future.
It is up to you to achieve the highest level of coaching skills. If you are a great coach and insist that everyone else on the team become great, then you are well on your way to leading a great life.
ALAN C. WALTER
7 June 1990
Revised 24 November 1995
Copyright © 1990, 1995
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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Since 1964, Alan has worked with over 250,000 people, many in Fortune 500 companies, training them to be Champions in their chosen fields. His techniques are known for being the most advanced anywhere.
While continuing his research, he also conducts special training programs based on his discoveries. More and more people around the world are benefiting from the technology developed by Alan C. Walter, and unleashing their "Champions" hidden within.
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