72 Effective Communication in Coaching and Leadership
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Effective communication is not just about getting your message across or making your point. It also isn’t just about being a keyboard assassin and sitting at your computer or firing off emails to your athletes or employees.
Effective communication empowers the athlete or employee to execute as intended, to believe in the path forward, and have clarity in actions needed for success.
What are these key principles of communication that enable a real coaching relationship to flourish? How can you adapt your communication style to establish trust and confidence? Matt investigates in this week’s episode.
Matt:
- Defines effective communication across all spectrums
- Explores the central principles for coaching success
- Dissects a real-life example of how coaching and communication can and should evolve
- Outlines his Top 10 components of effective coaching communication
The goal? Set you on a path to evolve your leadership style and ultimately become a more effective communicator.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and |
| 0:05.8 | educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. Through the lens of athletic potential, |
| 0:11.5 | you reach your human potential. The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere |
| 0:17.2 | integrate sport into life. And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast as ever, your host, Matt Dixon. |
| 0:26.8 | This is me communicating to you, telling you how it's going to be. |
| 0:35.5 | You will comply, you will follow and you will execute. Why? Because I tell you so. |
| 0:46.0 | I am master. You will listen and then you will follow through. What daddy says, you do. |
| 0:56.9 | Yeah, I put the daddy in there because a mate of mine bet me that I wouldn't. |
| 1:01.8 | I couldn't help it. |
| 1:03.8 | All right, pretty poor communication style. |
| 1:08.0 | So what are the fundamentals of great coaching and leadership communication? This week we investigate. |
| 1:16.6 | As effective coaching isn't just about becoming a keyboard assassin and prescribing smart training plans to the athlete. |
| 1:24.0 | It's driven by effective communication that enables the athlete or the employee, |
| 1:29.5 | I might add, to execute as intended, to believe in the path and have clarity and actions |
| 1:35.3 | needed for success. So let's dive in. But as ever, before we do, we need to wake ourselves up. |
| 1:42.8 | We've got to get the juices flowing. |
| 1:45.0 | We've got to have a little dance. |
| 1:46.6 | We could go electronic, we could go rap, or even, as we're feeling a little dangerous today, |
| 1:51.8 | let's go ukulele. |
| 1:52.9 | We like the way he thinks, serious with a wink. |
| 1:57.2 | Let's open the book. |
| 1:59.4 | It's time to take a peek. It's the Dixenary Word of the Week. Yes, the word of the week this week is email. |
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