171 Keys to Effective Coaching - Optimize Your Relationships in Order to Develop, Grow, and Thrive
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
You need support and guidance in your endeavors. You go and find an expert or coach who can help. And just like that...like magic dust...The results flow. Is it really that simple? No.It isn’t.
Ironically, so many folks just don’t know how to be coached. There is an important perspective, mindset, and action that can enable a coaching relationship to flounder or flourish. When you get that right, THEN the positive results will flow.
How can you optimize your relationship with leaders, mentors, and coaches in any endeavor so that you can develop, grow, and thrive? Through stories and case studies, Matt outlines advice on how to be coached effectively.
Key Takeaways:
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Case Study 1 - Athlete, Susan: A strong runner and rider, but refuses to implement a regualr strength regime.
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Case Study 2- Athlete, Heather: Commitment to be coached and follow the program through. She provides feedback and is engaged in the journey.
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Case Study 3- Athlete, John: Wants to go pro. Does he have the patience to play the long-game?
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Case Study 4- Lessons from the Pros. What can we learn form the pros about effective coaching relationships?
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Matt's six tips on how to be coached effectively
Episode Timestamps
00:00-01:50 - Welcome and Introduction to the Episode
01:50-08:00 Who the Bleeding 'Eck Are You - Ed Croucher and Liam Bradley
08:10-10:30 - Word of the Week - COMMITMENT
10:50 - The Meat and Potatoes - A Coach's Perspective on How to Be Coached Effectively - Case studies and tips
Episode Resources
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https://www.purplepatchfitness.com/squad
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https://www.purplepatchfitness.com/strength-1
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. |
| 0:03.5 | The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. |
| 0:09.3 | Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential. |
| 0:13.3 | The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere integrate sport into life. |
| 0:19.8 | And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast, as ever, |
| 0:23.2 | your host Matt Dixon. And this week, I want to dive back into a subject that I've covered |
| 0:28.6 | before on the show, but I think deserves revisiting. Coaching. Moreover, being coached. |
| 0:36.7 | So you find yourself needing support and guidance. |
| 0:39.3 | You go and find an expert who can help. |
| 0:42.3 | And just like that, |
| 0:43.3 | PA, magic dust. |
| 0:45.3 | The results flow. |
| 0:47.3 | Is it really that simple? |
| 0:49.3 | No, it isn't. |
| 0:52.3 | There is an important perspective, mindset and set of actions that can enable a coaching relationship to flourish. |
| 1:00.3 | You need to get that right, and then the positive results will flow. |
| 1:05.4 | And so today, we're going to dig in. |
| 1:07.8 | And this is a great one, of course, for athletes to hear. But of course, |
| 1:12.5 | it also extends well beyond sport. How can you optimize your relationship with leaders, |
| 1:18.5 | mentors, and coaches in any endeavor so that you can develop, grow and thrive? I think that |
| 1:24.6 | it's about time we should dig in, don't you? What we're going to do is we're going to go through a story. |
| 1:30.1 | I'm going to highlight the premise with a little bit of good versus, let's call it, not so good case studies, all wrapped up in a bow of action items for you to then go and put into action. |
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