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The Art Of Coaching

E144 | Tiffany Peltier: Coaching Adults vs. Kids - What's the Difference?

The Art Of Coaching

Brett Bartholomew

Health & Fitness, Business, Education

5642 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

There’s a lot of talk about best practices when it comes to coaching children. But what about adults? What does the literature say? How do we optimize coaching for a more mature population? Today, we are joined by Tiffany Peltier, a retired 22-year veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard and current coach and adult educator. In addition to tactics and strategies to optimize adult learning, we discuss: Experience, Emotion and Exposure (& other challenges of coaching adults) How to talk to / coach “thinkers” vs. “feelers” Using the Experiential Learning Cycle Navigating jargon and power dynamics in the military   Tiffany is also a Masters Pan-American and National Olympic Lifting record holder in both lifts and total. She’s been a personal trainer for over 18 years, and a fitness coach/adult educator for over 10 years. Having earned a plethora of certifications related to fitness, nutrition, and neurological studies, she is currently acting as a Neuro Performance specialist with Z-Health. Her Master’s research is in coaching adult athletes using adult learning principles.   Connect with Tiffany: Via Instagram: @fit_w_tiff Via email: [email protected] As we talked about on today’s show, there’s a lot to consider when optimizing an environment for different types of learners. Click here to check out my free online presentation on the subject! Join Our Coalition Mentoring Program here Follow me on social media: Via Instagram: @coach_BrettB Via Twitter: @coach_BrettB Subscribe to my YouTube channel here Learn More About My Courses, Clinics, and Live Events At: www.ArtofCoaching.com

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There are going to be people though, however, that will want you to hold their hand the entire way.

0:07.0

And you just have to slowly wean them off of holding their hand by allowing them to learn, by allowing them to learn from their own mistakes and not being able to gather their data on their own as to what's right and what's wrong.

0:25.5

So like with an adult athlete, if you're teaching a push up, right, and they do the push up

0:35.0

wrong and they feel it in their shoulders where they're not really supposed to and they

0:38.4

say, oh man, I felt that wrong. Great you learn. And then they fix their position and then

0:43.4

they feel it where they're supposed to and they say,

0:45.1

okay, this is what it's supposed to look like.

0:56.6

Welcome to the Articoting Podcast, a show aimed at getting to the core of what it takes to change attitudes,

1:01.9

behaviors and outcomes in the weight room, board room, classroom, and everywhere in between. I'm your host, Brett Bartholmue.

1:09.5

I'm a performance coach, keynote speaker, and the author of the book, Conscious

1:13.4

Coaching. But most importantly, I'm a lifelong student interested in all

1:17.1

aspects of human behavior and communication. I want to thank you for joining me,

1:21.5

and now let's dive into today's episode.

1:31.6

Hey, hey, excited to have you guys back for another episode. Listen, we have a lot going on at art of coaching that I want to tell you about.

1:35.0

I promise to keep it brief, but we're going to hear a lot of things talked about in this episode

1:38.7

that we have extra resources for you and they're free.

1:42.0

So you're going to hear Tiffany and I, today's guest, talk a lot about the coaching environment.

1:46.4

Words we use, experiential learning, what have you.

1:49.9

I have a presentation that I gave at former,

1:53.3

and this always is a disheartening thing to hear,

1:55.7

Kobe Bryant, you know, recipes.

1:57.4

But the former Mamba Academy, I gave a presentation

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